Orbital Access was a UK-based company, founded in 2015, focused on developing horizontal take-off launch services for small payloads. Though now deadpooled, it aimed to provide commercial launch services from spaceports worldwide. The company's mission was to create next-generation small satellite launch systems, complementing non-launch-related space services. Orbital Access partnered with organizations like Space Florida to establish operating bases at spaceports such as Cape Canaveral.
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The Maritime Launch Services and INNOSPACE partnership aims to establish licensed launch infrastructure capable of delivering responsive orbital access for commercial and defense customers by the end of 2026.
KSF Space has developed the Jupiter Rocket suborbital testing platform to lower orbital access costs.
Rocket Lab is a leader in responsive launch and precise orbital access for small satellite operators globally.
The SaxaVord development removed the need for launchers to dogleg to avoid inhabited areas, improving orbital access for polar and Sun-synchronous orbits and reducing fuel needs.
The SCEPTRE report commissioned by the UK government in 2017 identified SaxaVord as the optimum site for a UK launch site based on orbital access and other criteria.
Orbital Access is a U.K.-based launch startup developing aircraft-launched vehicles with a long-term goal of a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane envisioned roughly 20 or more years from initial systems.
Stuart McIntyre, chief executive of Orbital Access, believes the U.K. market will not support a U.K. industry on its own and that the industry must be built on an export platform.