After two years of explosions, crash-landings and delays the quest to launch the first spacecraft into orbit from British soil is back on, with a rocket set to blast off from Shetland this year.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) granted a launch licence on Thursday to Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), the German rocket company, in what the regulator described as a “historic milestone”
BeerPoweredNonsense on
Paywall.
And also – „vertical launch rocket“. Quality journalism that.
jaa101 on
> UK’s first vertical launch rocket
Nope. Black Arrow was a UK rocket, even if it launched in Australia.
> Britain aims to beat Norway and Sweden to the first orbital launch on European soil
Too late. The Soviets/Russians have launched plenty of times from Plesetsk.
iqisoverrated on
As opposed to „horizontal launch rockets“? (Or diagonal launch rockets?)
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After two years of explosions, crash-landings and delays the quest to launch the first spacecraft into orbit from British soil is back on, with a rocket set to blast off from Shetland this year.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) granted a launch licence on Thursday to Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), the German rocket company, in what the regulator described as a “historic milestone”
Paywall.
And also – „vertical launch rocket“. Quality journalism that.
> UK’s first vertical launch rocket
Nope. Black Arrow was a UK rocket, even if it launched in Australia.
> Britain aims to beat Norway and Sweden to the first orbital launch on European soil
Too late. The Soviets/Russians have launched plenty of times from Plesetsk.
As opposed to „horizontal launch rockets“? (Or diagonal launch rockets?)