China putting finishing touches on seaside #spaceport for commercial launches... https://www.space.com/china-finishing-commercial-spaceport-hainan-video
"Both Launch Pad No. 1 and Launch Pad No. 2 have been meticulously designed to accommodate over 10 different types of rockets from nine manufacturers," Bian Pengfei, project manager of Launch Pad 2, #Hainan International Commercial Space Launch Co., Ltd., told #China Central Television (#CCTV).
After launching the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or #IXPE, a #spacecraft intended to study some of the most energetic phenomenon in the universe, the #Falcon 9 #booster core #B1016 landed on the Autonomous #Spaceport Drone #Ship and returned to #Port#Canaveral.
The UK’s first vertical rockets will launch in 2024 after a spaceport in Scotland’s Shetland Islands received approval from aviation authorities — in a boost to Europe’s rocket and small satellites startups.
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority has granted SaxaVord Spaceport a licence for up to 30 launches a year, after checking it met the requirements for vertical launches.
Europe’s first operational continental spaceport has officially opened in a major boost for Germany’s Isar Aerospace — which is hastily preparing for its maiden flight from the site next year.
Andøya Spaceport, on Andøya island in Norway’s northwest, will host several launch pads. Isar Aerospace has exclusive access to the first launch site, where it will test its two-stage rocket Spectrum.
Around 250 kilometres off the north coast of Scotland, the Shetland isle of Unst undergoing a dramatic renovation.
On a peninsula flanked by giant cliffs and open ocean, builders are constructing a spaceport. They call the project SaxaVord. They say it could host the first-ever vertical rocket launches from Western Europe.
> Private companies like SpaceX are taking on established space agencies. Germany is hoping to shore up its position by opening a spaceport on the North Sea.
A #HongKong 🇨🇳 -based company will build and operate a #spaceport covering at least ten square kilometres (four square miles) in #Djibouti 🇩🇯. The facility will include seven #launchpads and three #rocket 🚀 testing pads.