Britain plans to build commercial spaceport by 2018 ! The UK Space Agency revealed yesterday its ambitious plans to build a spaceport in the UK before 2018. No commercial space company has yet demonstrated a space-plane is capable of carrying paying passengers. A spaceport is planned to be built at a remote site where regular airline traffic is low. The location also has to have a longer-than usual runway or room to build one. This is because after a hypersonic re-entry, spaceplanes will still be travelling at far greater speeds than standard planes and will need more room to land. Such requirements make either the north or north-east of Scotland a sensible location, away from the busy transatlantic air corridors. Cornwall in the UK’s deep south-west is also a possibility, where likely sites may include RAF St Mawgan, near Newquay, which is already used for rocket engine testing. In all, eight sites have been shortlisted by the UK Space Agency and will be announced at Farnborough Air Show by the science minister David Willets . For more details, pls click on the link below: britishsouthindians.co.uk/britain-plans-to-build-commercial-spaceport-by-2018/
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 06:46:02 +0000