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  1. 🇫🇷 #Latitude is pushing toward a maiden flight 🚀 of its #Zephyr rocket within the next 18 months. The 20 m-tall rocket is designed to deliver 200 kg to #LEO at an ultra-competitive #price point 💶. Zephyr’s Navier engines are #3Dprinted. Latitude has deliberately chosen not to pursue first-stage reusability ♻️. To reach the target of 50 5️⃣0️⃣ launches annually by 📆 2030, Latitude plans to operate from at least two #spaceports nasaspaceflight.com/2026/01/la

  2. SpaceX’s Ambitious Offshore Starship Launch Concept

    #EnvironmentalImpact #Launch #Mars #Rockets #SeaLaunch #Spaceports #SpaceX #Starship #EditorSPicks #LaunchSegment #MarketDataAndAnalysis #SpaceEconomy #SpaceLogistics #Upstream

    https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/12/11/spacex-hits-pause-button-on-ambitious-offshore-starship-launch-concepts/

  3. #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." physicsworld.com/a/uk-spacepor

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