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Orbex received a Boost! award valued at $7,800,000 for work on avionics and software.
Orbex received part of nearly $40,000,000 in government and private funding to continue development of Prime.
Orbex considers the Sutherland site its home spaceport while remaining open to working with other European and American spaceports.
Orbex planned a first launch of Prime in the second half of 2021 before schedule slips occurred.
Orbex unveiled a full-scale prototype of its Prime rocket on 2022-05-11 to use for integrated tests ahead of its maiden flight.
Orbex is a UK-based spaceflight company with headquarters, production, and testing facilities in Scotland and design and testing facilities in Denmark.
A University of Exeter study found that a single launch of Orbex Prime will produce 96 percent lower carbon emissions than comparable space launch systems using fossil fuels.
Orbex Prime is powered by a renewable bio-fuel, bio-propane, supplied by Calor UK.
Orbex is funded by BGF and Octopus Ventures, Heartcore Capital, the High-Tech Gründerfonds, strategic investor Elecnor, the UK Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme.
Orbex unveiled a full-scale prototype of the 19-meter two-stage Prime orbital rocket on 2022-05-11.
Orbex plans integration tests of the Prime prototype ahead of a maiden flight slated for 2022 or early 2023.
Scotland is home to a launch site under development near the town of Sutherland that will host launches by Orbex.
Orbex constructed the first launch platform to be built in the UK in over 50 years that is capable of an orbital launch.
The UK Space Agency invested £5.5 million and supported a successful European Space Agency funding application for the development of Orbex’s Prime launch vehicle.
Orbex Prime will eventually launch from its home spaceport at Sutherland in the North of Scotland.
Orbex LP1 completed an 80-mile road trip from Peterhead to Kinloss on two trucks accompanied by a police escort.
A film documenting Orbex LP1’s 80-mile journey and crane lift is hosted at https://vimeo.com/677299154.
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 plans to accelerate its schedule to launch Prime from its home spaceport at Sutherland in the north of Scotland using the Kinloss Launch Platform.