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#Orbex dismayed the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 government in December last year when, with little warning, it pulled the plug on building its own #spaceport, in #Sutherland. The UK “doesn’t need the capacity for two spaceports right now”. The question is, will it ever ? telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/

The Telegraph · Meet the British space entrepreneur Phil Chambers helping to break Europe’s reliance on MuskBy Matthew Field
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The German government supports a mobile satellite launch plan in the North Sea.

The German Ministry of Transport has approved €870,000 for a planned offshore spaceport.

This will enable the German Offshore Spaceport Alliance (GOSA) to develop a “holistic” solution for the spaceport for primarily commercial orbital and suborbital launches by the end of September.

mediafaro.org/article/20250213

heise online · Cash boost: Government supports mobile satellite launch plan in the North SeaBy Stefan Krempl
#Germany#NorthSea#Space
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The search for safer and geographically advantageous launch sites has turned global attention toward #Africa 🌍. It’s proximity to the equator brings with it a “slingshot effect” for rockets, helping satellites reach geostationary transfer orbit with less fuel and #costs. #Djibouti’s 🇩🇯 #spaceport is expected to take five years to complete. Engineers from a couple of #Kenyan 🇰🇪 universities concluded that building a spaceport was “highly feasible” atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/afri

Atlantic Council · Could the United States’ future liftoffs take place in Africa?By working together on expanding the roster of rocket launch sites available to the United States, Washington and its African partners can set a global standard for responsible space exploration.
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It's likely that rockets 🚀 built by the likes of #Spain's 🇪🇸 #PLDSpace, #France's 🇫🇷 #MaiaSpace, and the #German 🇩🇪 duo #IsarAerospace and #RocketFactory Augsburg will also be blasting off from the center soon under the start-up plan. Efforts to drag the #spaceport into the 21st century are underway politico.eu/article/russian-ro

POLITICO · Russian rockets clog Europe’s South American spaceportBy Joshua Posaner
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#SUAS Aerospace was founded in 📆 2021 with the aim of building a world-class #RocketLaunch 🚀 and testing facility in #Ireland 🇮🇪. The company commissioned UK-based #B2Space to conduct a feasibility study that identified Ireland as “one of the top three locations in #Europe 🇪🇺 for a #spaceport.” The company aims to have the facility fully operational by 📆 2027 europeanspaceflight.com/irish-

Pictures : #Ireland, #ElfordstownEarthstation commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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