UK’s first vertical launch rocket will blast off this year
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/uk-space-race-rocket-saxavord-vertical-launch-p0v5gsnpz?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1737022751
UK’s first vertical launch rocket will blast off this year
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/uk-space-race-rocket-saxavord-vertical-launch-p0v5gsnpz?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1737022751
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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?)
Sometimes it is so much fun just to read the comments on science and space articles. If I got it right this article is hot garbage:
* It‘s not a UK rocket, but a German one
* It‘s not the first, the Soviets were first
* It’s also not the first UK rocket, because they already launched one from Australia
Hot damn…
This is not the best headline. It’s a first for the launch location rather than the supply of an orbital spacecraft.