Orbex Space is a UK-based, private launch services company focused on serving the small satellite industry. They are developing the Orbex Prime, a micro-launch vehicle designed for low-Earth orbit satellite deployment, utilizing innovative and sustainable bio-propane fuel. While initially planning to launch from Sutherland Spaceport, Orbex has shifted its launch operations to SaxaVord Spaceport. Orbex's key partners and customers include the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and companies like Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and Astrocast.
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Orbex Prime will eventually launch from its home spaceport at Sutherland in the North of Scotland.
Orbex will test the Prime rocket on the Orbex LP1 launch platform at a facility in Kinloss near Orbex’s headquarters in Forres.
Orbex is a UK-based spaceflight company with headquarters, production, and testing facilities in Scotland and design and testing facilities in Denmark.
Orbex is funded by BGF and Octopus Ventures alongside Heartcore Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor, Deimos Space, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.
Orbex is a UK-based spaceflight company with headquarters, production, and testing facilities in Scotland and design and testing facilities in Denmark.
Orbex plans to accelerate its schedule to launch Prime from its home spaceport at Sutherland in the north of Scotland using the Kinloss Launch Platform.
Orbex plans to launch the Prime rocket from Spaceport Sutherland in the north of Scotland later in 2022.
Calor will supply its BioLPG solution, a clean-burning propane produced from renewable feedstocks such as plant and vegetable waste material, to Orbex.
Orbex is a UK-based spaceflight company with headquarters, production, and testing facilities in Scotland and design and testing facilities in Denmark.
Orbex is funded by the UK venture capital funds BGF and Octopus Ventures alongside Heartcore Capital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 program.
A University of Exeter study found that a single Orbex Prime launch would produce up to 96% lower emissions than a similar-sized launch vehicle powered by fossil fuels.
Orbex and Calor have entered into an agreement under which Calor will supply the BioLPG fuel to launch the Orbex Prime rocket.
The University of Exeter study calculated that a single Orbex Prime launch would produce up to 86 percent less emissions than a similar-sized vertical launch vehicle powered by fossil fuels.
The greenhouse gas factor for BioLPG used by Orbex is 90 percent lower than the fossil-based RP-1 kerosene typically used as rocket fuel.
Orbex plans to launch Prime from Space Hub Sutherland in the north of Scotland.
The Space Hub Sutherland site is slated to host the Scottish-manufactured Orbex Prime low-carbon-fuel rocket.
€900,000 of the total funding package will support development of the orbital-phase GNC being developed by Elecnor Deimos for Orbex in Portugal.
€11.25 million of the total funding is assigned to work to be undertaken in the UK, including lightweight avionics designed in-house by Orbex in Forres, Scotland.
The European Space Agency awarded Orbex €7.45 million through its Boost! Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support (C-STS) program.
Orbex and Skyrora join German launch startups HyImpulse Technologies, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and Isar Aerospace, each of which were awarded €1.5 million in Boost! funding in November 2020.