Spaceflight 🚀Mar 18, 2023

#PhysicsWorld 🇬🇧 "the official line from the #government 🏢 is that #SpaceLaunch facilities will be a boon to the #UK economy, swelling UK industry capitalization from £17 billion now to £40 billion 💰 by 2030. One hurdle is #competition. There are around 168 #LaunchCompanies around the world 🌏, at different stages of development. Even if many fall by the wayside the #LaunchMarket will inevitably become crowded, making it a challenge for UK #SpacePorts to compete.
#Skyrora uses #Ecosene, a premium kerosene derived from unrecyclable #plastic waste 🗑️. #Orbex uses the renewable ultralow-carbon fuel #BioLPG. #ClearSpace and #Astroscale are designing missions to remove #SpaceDebris." https://physicsworld.com/a/uk-spaceports-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

#OpenStreetMap aerospace:product in #UK 🇬🇧 https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1sz3

UK spaceports: the good, the bad and the ugly – Physics World

Benjamin Skuse looks at how the UK space industry may, or may not, benefit from the rise of local spaceports

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Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Feb 14, 2023
#WashingtonPost 📆 March 29, 2022 : 📆 2013 #Russia 🇷🇺 controlled around half of the global commercial #LaunchIndustry. By 📆 2020, #SpaceX represented half of the commercial #satellite #LaunchMarket, and Russia was down to 10%. Between 2014 and 2020, #Roscosmos’ #budget fell from $5 billion to $1.4 billion 💵 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/russia-just-became-the-worlds-first-former-space-power/2022/03/29/0a5a20d8-af37-11ec-9dbd-0d4609d44c1c_story.html
Russia Just Became the World’s First Former Space Power

The Ukraine war cut off European partnerships that the Russian space agency needs to stay competitive in commercial exploration.

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