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On August 18 2020, a small rocket launched off the coast of Iceland. The blast-off was the culmination of a years-long ambition for Skyrora, a rocketry firm based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. Out over ...

In partnership with Viasat and CGI, Skyrora – the Scottish space launch company – has completed a successful ground test of Viasat’s InRange, a space-based launch vehicle telemetry relay system.

Many different components go into making modern spacecraft, and with the help of a UK-based launch vehicle technology company called Skyrora, the ESA is developing a new one. Tanbium is a new alloy ...

Scottish launch company Skyrora says it has successfully launched a low-altitude rocket from the Shetland Islands for the first time, a significant step to beginning launches to space from the U.K.

One of the newer companies attempting to join the rarified group of private space launch startups actually flying payloads to orbit has redirected its entire UK-based manufacturing capacity towards ...

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U.K. launch startup Skyrora has tested a new rocket engine that uses "greener" fuel in the form of waste plastic, as it moves towards its planned first orbital launch in 2022. Edinburgh-based Skyrora ...

UK-based rocket builder Orbex, now in financial administration, could have a rescuer. In a press statement on February 12th, Skyrora confirmed it intends to explore the purchase of select Orbex assets ...

Skyrora's Skylark L ahead of a suborbital launch attempt from Iceland’s Langanes peninsula in October 2022. Credit: Skyrora BREMEN, Germany — Scotland-based launch startup Skyrora is focused on making ...

U.K.-based launch company Skyrora hit a new milestone in the development of its Skyrora XL rocket with the completion of a static fire test of the second stage. The single engine, designed and ...