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Spaceport: locations and criteria

Seeking views on the conclusions and recommendations on criteria and potentially feasible locations for a UK spaceport.

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Consultation seeking views on the 8 potential locations identified as a commercial sub-orbital spaceflight spaceport and the:

key operational
safety
meteorological
environmental
economic

criteria used by the Civil Aviation Authority in selection.

Related spaceflight documents

Commercial spaceplane certification and operations: UK government review, published 15 July 2014
Government paves way for UK spaceport, press release published 15 July 2014

Documents

Supporting commercial spaceplane operations in the UKapplication/pdf Summary and government response to the consultation on criteria to determine the location of a UK spaceport application/pdf Spaceport locations and criteria: consultation responses received (a to l)application/x-zip-compressed

At a glance

Opened14 Jul 2014

Closes06 Oct 2014

First published15 Jul 2014

Last updated03 Mar 2015

Document typeconsultation_outcome

Organisations

Department for Transport Department for Business, Innovation & Skills Ministry of Defence UK Space Agency Civil Aviation Authority

Topics

UK economyScience and innovationSpaceflight

Spaceport locations and criteria: consultation responses received (m to z)

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