Spaceport Cornwall, located at Cornwall Airport Newquay, is the UK's first licensed spaceport and Europe's future air and space solution, offering a safe and responsible way to access space. As a horizontal launch site, it aims to support small satellite launches and aerospace innovation, working with companies developing horizontal launch systems. Spaceport Cornwall collaborates with partners like Cornwall Council, Goonhilly Earth Station, the UK Space Agency, and aerospace companies, with ambitions to become a world-leading location for manned and unmanned technology.
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Spaceport Cornwall built a satellite integration facility that can be used by other companies when Virgin Orbit is not operating there.
The Start Me Up mission is scheduled to take off from Spaceport Cornwall as soon as 5:16 p.m. Eastern on 2023-01-09.
At the start of 2022, Virgin Orbit projected performing six launches in the year, including two from Spaceport Cornwall.
Virgin Orbit’s ‘Start Me Up’ mission will launch from Spaceport Cornwall operating out of Cornwall Newquay Airport.
On 2022-12-08 Virgin Orbit delayed its Start Me Up mission from Spaceport Cornwall for weeks because of technical and regulatory issues.
Spaceport Cornwall, located at Cornwall Airport Newquay, received a spaceport license from the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority on 2022-11-16.
Integration of customer satellites into the rocket’s fairing is expected to begin 2022-10-03 in the newly inaugurated Space Systems Integration Facility (SSIF) at Spaceport Cornwall.
The launch of the shoebox-sized Prometheus-2 satellites will take place later 2022 from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay.
Cosmic Girl, Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 that carries the LauncherOne rocket, will soon take off from Spaceport Cornwall to deliver the two Prometheus-2 satellites into Earth orbit.
Prometheus-2 Cosmic Girl is Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 that carries the LauncherOne rocket and will take off from Spaceport Cornwall to deliver two Prometheus-2 satellites into Earth orbit.
The shoebox-sized Prometheus-2 satellites will launch later 2022 from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay.
Spaceport Cornwall was awarded Educational Project of the Year in The Satcoms Innovation Group’s 2022 SIG awards.
Open Cosmos and RHEA Group selected Virgin Orbit’s UK business to launch the DOVER Pathfinder satellite to low Earth orbit from Spaceport Cornwall later 2022.
Spaceport Cornwall is operated by a consortium comprising Virgin Orbit, the UK Space Agency, Goonhilly Earth Station, and the Cornwall Council unitary authority.
Virgin Orbit, a U.S. company, planned to perform an orbital LauncherOne mission from Spaceport Cornwall as soon as September 2022.
CIRCE is scheduled to launch from Spaceport Cornwall at Newquay Airport as part of the United Kingdom’s first commercial space mission during the upcoming summer.
Spaceport Cornwall must obtain a license from the Civil Aviation Authority to host Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne system.
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne commercial U.K. launches will deploy payloads from Spaceport Cornwall using a modified Boeing 747 aircraft.
The joint NRO–U.K. MOD mission will launch from Spaceport Cornwall at Newquay Airport in Cornwall, England.
ForgeStar-0 will be launched from Spaceport Cornwall, the United Kingdom’s first domestic spaceport.