Space Industry - Licensing Spaceports
Skylon Spaceplane Author WD Graham (GW Simulations) Licence Reproduction licensed by the author Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert In Commercial Exploitation of Space: Space Industry Act 2018 10 April 2018 I mentioned the government's aim to expand the British share of the global space market from the present 6.5% to 10% by 2030. Much of that growth will come from the development of small satellite delivery vehicles and suborbital transports which will take off and land on conventional runways. The development of facilities for such spacecraft is likely to stimulate local economic activity considerably. I mentioned the cluster of aerospace businesses that is already gathering at Cornwall Airport Newquay in NIPC Cornwall this morning. Newquay is one of a number of airports around the coast of Great Britain planning to handle space traffic. Such facilities fall into the definition of "spaceports" provded by s.3 (2) of the Space Indu...