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UK Spaceport News History

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The plan is to build a spaceport at a remote site where regular airline traffic is low. The location also has to have a longer-than usual runway or room to build one. This is because after a hypersonic re-entry, spaceplanes will still be travelling at far greater speeds than standard planes and will need more room to land. Such requirements make either the north or north-east of Scotland a sensible location, away from the busy transatlantic air corridors.

In all, eight sites have been shortlisted by the UK Space Agency and were announced at Farnborough Air Show today (15/7/14) � six of which are in Scotland, 1 in Wales and Newquay Airport in Cornwall

Aviation minister Robert Goodwill said the sites to be assessed will be:

spaceport map

David Parker, head of the UK Space Agency said one aim is "to provide low-cost access to space and provide the person in the street with the chance to go to space". In a brief statement released ahead of tomorrow's announcement of potential sites, the UK Space Agency says: "A spaceport would open up the UK space tourism industry to specialist operators such as Virgin Galactic and XCor, but it also paves the way for future technologies that will help make Britain the place for space."

Virgin Galactic and XCor are working on spaceplanes � orbital vehicles that land like regular planes. Virgin's SpaceShipTwo is a "captive carry" design lofted to an altitude of 10 kilometres by a jet plane, from where it fires its rocket motor and heads for suborbit. Flight tests are ongoing. Xcor's Lynx is a rocket plane that flies from the runway to space with no carrier aircraft � but it has yet to fly.

Being able to service such spacecraft with a British spaceport is crucial, says the UK Space Agency. "It will be the first spaceport of its kind outside the United States."

Goverments Spaceport: Locations and criteria, Open consultation

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31/10/2014
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism craft crashed on a test flight in the California desert.

15/10/2014
Added www.spaceportnewquay.co.uk excellent site
Virgin Glactic has purchased the domain name www.newquayspaceport.co.uk which is linked to www.virgingalactic.com :
source newquayvoice, unconfirmed.

06/10/2014
Consultation period closed

04/9/2014
The Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable, has welcomed a new �6 million investment at the Aerohub at Newquay Cornwall Airport, which could help create up to 750 new jobs.