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Moon missions coming to Spaceport Cornwall!! New agreement signed!

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Me: starts writing first drafts of exogenesis fic in 2010ish

-puts a space port in Cornwall

-imagine it does suborbital flight

-partnered with Richard Bransons virgin galactic

2022: spaceport in Cornwall opens

2023: first virgin orbit flight due to launch tonight.

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Boris Johnson erased from Grant Shapps spaceport picture - BBC News

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Spaceport Cornwall

Spaceport cornwall is located at Cornwall Airport Newquay and is the first place in the UK to be given a space port license there are few others within the uk that also have the ability to launch vertical rockets

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Virgin Orbit extends unpaid pause as Brown deal collapses, 'dynamic' talks continue

NEWQUAY, ENGLAND – JANUARY 09: A general view of Cosmic Girl, a Boeing 747-400 aircraft carrying the LauncherOne rocket under its left wing, as final preparations are made at Cornwall Airport Newquay on January 9, 2023 in Newquay, United Kingdom. Virgin Orbit launches its LauncherOne rocket from the spaceport in Cornwall, marking the first ever orbital launch from the UK. The mission has been…

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Cornwall space launch: why the environmental cost of rocket launches is large even when they fail

A recent UK mission to launch satellites into space from Spaceport Cornwall in the west of England failed to deliver the satellites to orbit. But the rocket, LauncherOne, succeeded in releasing hazardous pollutants to the middle and upper layers of the atmosphere where many will remain for years.The mission kickstarted a new era of UK-based rocket launches and is part of the space sector’s global…

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Spaceport boss says it's challenging being a successful woman in the space industry as some people exclude her from conversations#Spaceport #boss #challenging #successful #woman #space #industry #people #exclude #conversations

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall, stands in front of Cosmic Girl, the modified Boeing 747.Hugh Hastings/Getty Images Melissa Thorpe, a Spaceport boss, spoke about the criticism she gets as a woman in the space sector. She said people have left her out of discussions and avoided asking her opinion at times. The space industry is male-dominated, but Thorpe said she’s questioning how…

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Virgin Orbit Satellites fell short of reaching Space from Spaceport Cornwall

Virgin Orbit Satellites fell short of reaching Space from Spaceport Cornwall

An update from Virgin hopes to explain the anomaly which put hindrance to the mission of rockets from Cosmic Girl, the customized 747. It sounds like something out of Star Trek movie, but it is worth remembering that attempts on first runs into space can come with failures just like when Elon Musk whom almost went bust until he was successful on a fourth attempt at SpaceX. On Tuesday Cosmic…

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Could Shetland now beat Cornwall in the British space race?

Could Shetland now beat Cornwall in the British space race?

With the failure of Virgin Orbit’s historic mission on Monday night, the door has now opened for a different spaceport to lay claim to being the first in Britain to launch satellites into orbit. Step up Shetland. The SaxaVord spaceport, which is one of three including Cornwall due to begin operations this year, has just signed a deal with a German rocket manufacturer to attempt a lift-off in…

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First satellite launch from the UK set to go ahead in Cornwall

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First satellite launch from the UK set to go ahead in Cornwall

By Alex Wilkins

The first orbital satellite launch from the UK is due to take place at Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay tonight. If successful, Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket, carrying a payload of nine satellites, will be released from a modified Boeing 747 plane at 35,000 feet off the south coast of Ireland, from where it will continue into low Earth orbit to drop its cargo.

The UK has the second-largest satellite building industry in the world, after the US, but relies on public and private launches in other countries, such as those from NASA or SpaceX, to get its products into orbit. Many hope that success tonight will mark the beginning of an era in which the UK can launch its own satellites on home turf, as well as those from other countries.

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“It’s been a long road for us to get here, with lots of international agreements and working with countries like Ireland, Spain and Portugal, who are all involved in managing the airspace,” says Matt Archer, director of the UK space flight programme at the UK Space Agency (UKSA). “There’s been a lot of work behind the scenes.”

It has been a frenetic couple of days in the countdown to the launch in Newquay, with the plane, dubbed Cosmic Girl, which has the LauncherOne rocket attached under one wing, submitted to lashings of wind and rain on the runway as the Virgin Orbit team carried out last-minute pre-flight checks. Last week, the set-up passed a “wet dress rehearsal”, in which the entire launch procedure was run through, barring ignition itself.

The team hopes that, even if the weather worsens, the plane should be OK to launch. “The Boeing 747 is a well-proven aircraft. It can take off in very challenging conditions and land back in challenging conditions as well,” says Ian Annett, deputy CEO for programme delivery at UKSA. “Of course, having a rocket underneath its left wing means that you have to be conscious of that, but one of the advantages as well is you can fly above the weather in order to launch [the rocket].”

If the plane gets the green light to launch, it will take off between 9.40pm and 11pm GMT (4.40pm and 6pm EST) and head towards the Irish Sea, where it will drop the rocket about an hour later.

LauncherOne, a rocket that Virgin Orbit has successfully launched four times previously from its facility in the Mojave desert, California, will then start its first-stage burn, which will run for around 20 minutes and accelerate it to about 12,900 kilometres per hour, to initiate its solo journey.

The rocket will then drop its first stage and proceed using the second stage, accelerating to 28,000 kph over about 6 minutes as it passes above Antarctica. It will finally reach its orbital height, of around 500 kilometres, over Australia about an hour after being deployed, where it will release its payload of nine satellites.

This adapted Boeing 747, called Cosmic Girl, will take off from Spaceport Cornwall carrying a rocket under one wing

Spaceport Cornwall

The previous rocket launches in California have given the Virgin Orbit team confidence that tonight’s attempt will go smoothly, with the operation of the system being essentially the same, Dan Hart, CEO of Virgin Orbit, told New Scientist at a pre-launch press conference. The only difference with being in Cornwall rather than the US, he says, is “pasties versus hamburgers”.

The satellites aboard LauncherOne include Welsh company Space Forge’s test satellite – with which it hopes to manufacture materials in orbit – small military communications satellites from the UK Ministry of Defence, a pair of ionospheric monitors in a joint US-UK military collaboration, maritime sensing satellites from Scottish company AAC Clyde Space, a European Space Agency GPS tracker and an imaging satellite jointly launched by Oman and Poland.

Newquay might seem an unlikely place for a satellite launch, but its combination of a long runway, formerly used by the UK’s Royal Air Force, easy access to the sea and a relatively sparse civilian population marked it out as the top choice when the UK government selected it to be the UK’s first spaceport in 2018.

There is excitement in the town, too, both for the launch itself, which hundreds of locals will attend tonight, ferried from shuttle buses in town, and for what the spaceport might bring to the area – which lost out on money from the European Union after Brexit – in terms of jobs and opportunities, such as at the integration facility, which opened last year, where satellites set to be launched are installed in the rocket body.

While tonight’s scheduled launch may be the only one that Cornwall sees this year, the UK government hopes to eventually have a network of spaceports, including a vertical launch facility in Saxa Vord in the Shetland Islands, where it plans to carry out a rocket launch later this year. In 10 years’ time, says Archer, the UKSA hopes to have around 15 launches a year, which will place it on a competitive footing with countries that have more established space launching industries, he says.

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Les enquêteurs britanniques sur les accidents aériens doivent enquêter sur la tentative ratée d'envoyer des satellites en orbite depuis Cornwall alors que les équipes derrière la mission historique ont décrit des scènes larmoyantes lorsque la fusée a été perdue, mais ont exprimé leur détermination à réessayer dès que possible.L'agence spatiale britannique (UKSA) a déclaré Mission Start Me Up de Virgin Orbit avait été un succès partiel, montrant qu'un lancement de fusée était possible depuis la Grande-Bretagne – et a affirmé qu'il avait battu la Norvège et la Suède pour être le premier pays à tirer des satellites dans l'espace depuis le sol européen.L'agence et Spaceport Cornwall, la base du lancement de plusieurs millions de livres, ont déclaré qu'ils essaieraient à nouveau d'envoyer des satellites en orbite d'ici un an.Cependant, c'était une sombre nouvelle pour Virgin Orbit Holdings, avec des actions chutant d'un cinquième en début de séance à la bourse du Nasdaq alors que ses équipes en Californie et en Cornouailles tentaient de déterminer ce qui n'allait pas et d'établir l'emplacement des débris de fusée et des satellites.Il est apparu mardi que la fusée, propulsée dans l'espace à partir d'un Boeing 747 personnalisé qui a décollé du port spatial près de Newquay lundi soir, a atteint une vitesse de 11 000 mph (17 700 km/h) mais devait atteindre 17 000 mph (27 400 km/h). h) pour gagner l'altitude correcte.Une possibilité d'échec était que les carénages qui enfermaient la fusée ne tombaient pas comme prévu et la ralentissaient.Matt Archer, directeur de l'espace commercial de l'UKSA, a déclaré qu'il acceptait que la mission n'ait pas atteint tout ce qu'elle avait prévu de faire, mais cela prouvait qu'un lancement pouvait avoir lieu depuis la Grande-Bretagne – et que le Royaume-Uni pouvait prétendre être le premier pays européen à lancer des satellites. . "Nous avons lancé," dit-il. "Nous savons que tout n'a pas réussi, mais nous sommes arrivés dans l'espace."graphiqueLorsqu'on lui a demandé si les carénages auraient pu être le problème, il a répondu: "Ce que nous savons, c'est qu'il [the rocket] n'a pas tiré aussi longtemps qu'il aurait dû le faire. Il ne gagnait pas l'altitude dont il avait besoin. Il peut s'agir de tout un tas de choses, qu'il s'agisse simplement des performances du moteur ou de quelque chose qui ne brûle pas. Cela pourrait être un problème de carénage.Archer a déclaré que la fusée a fonctionné pendant environ une minute au lieu de trois. Il a dit que le temps à Cornwall et au-dessus de l'Atlantique n'avait pas été un problème.Il a expliqué que Virgin Orbit et l'UKSA essayaient de localiser les débris de la fusée et des satellites. "Une grande partie va se briser et être brûlée dans l'atmosphère. Donc, si quelque chose descend, nous ne le savons pas, mais étant donné que la trajectoire passe au-dessus des pôles, au-dessus des plans d'eau, je ne m'attends pas à ce que ce soit un problème.Melissa Thorpe, responsable du port spatial de Cornwall, réagissant à l'annonce de l'échec du lancement inaugural de Virgin Orbit depuis le port spatial de Cornwall. Photographie: Jonny Weeks / The GuardianArcher a déclaré qu'il y avait eu des larmes lorsque la mission s'était arrêtée et qu'ils n'avaient pas ouvert le vin mousseux de Cornouailles que l'équipe avait mis sur la glace. "Il sera temps de célébrer les succès et de reconnaître tout le travail acharné."Divers organismes examineront l'incident, notamment la Direction des enquêtes sur les accidents aériens, l'Autorité de l'aviation civile et éventuellement des enquêteurs officiels américains.Virgin Orbit, qui a lancé la mission depuis Spaceport Cornwall, m'a dit il enquêterait aussi « inlassablement » sur la cause de l'échec.Dans un communiqué, la société a déclaré que le 747, Cosmic Girl, avait lancé avec succès la fusée LauncherOne, qui transportait la charge utile de satellites militaires et civils, dans la zone de largage désignée au large de la côte sud de l'Irlande.

Les membres du public regardent Cosmic Girl taxis avant le décollage. Photographie: Jonny Weeks / The GuardianIl a déclaré: «La fusée a ensuite allumé ses moteurs, rapidement, devenant hypersonique et atteignant avec succès l'espace. Le vol s'est poursuivi grâce à une séparation d'étage réussie et à l'allumage du deuxième étage. Cependant, à un moment donné pendant le tir du moteur du deuxième étage de la fusée, et avec la fusée se déplaçant à une vitesse de plus de 11 000 mph, le système a rencontré une anomalie.Le 747 est revenu sain et sauf au Spaceport Cornwall, près de Newquay.Inscrivez-vous pour Première éditionNewsletter quotidienne gratuiteArchie Bland et Nimo Omer vous guident à travers les meilleures histoires et ce qu'elles signifient, gratuitement tous les matins de la semaine

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Boris Johnson edited out of photo posted on Twitter by Business Secretary Grant Shapps | Politics News

Boris Johnson edited out of photo posted on Twitter by Business Secretary Grant Shapps | Politics News

Boris Johnson has mysteriously been erased from a recent photo tweeted by Business Secretary Grant Shapps. Tweeting in advance of the rocket launch from Spaceport Cornwall, beady-eyed social media users noticed that the image posted from Mr Shapps’ social media account, was not the same to the original image, which included Mr Johnson. The new image showed Mr Shapps enjoying a solitary visit to…

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Update on "Start Me Up" mission anomaly

Update on “Start Me Up” mission anomaly

Preliminary analysis of data from the Start Me Up mission has begun to shed light on the outcome of the January 9th flight and next steps to follow.The Start Me Up mission was the first orbital launch attempt in history conducted from western Europe. The flight was conducted by Virgin Orbit’s air-launched LauncherOne system from the newly commissioned Spaceport Cornwall in the UK, which just a…