{"id":81382,"date":"2018-08-04T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/britain-looks-to-bring-commercial-rocket-launches-to-home-soil"},"modified":"2018-08-04T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:42:22","slug":"britain-looks-to-bring-commercial-rocket-launches-to-home-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/britain-looks-to-bring-commercial-rocket-launches-to-home-soil","title":{"rendered":"Britain looks to bring commercial rocket launches to home soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/britain-looks-to-bring-commercial-rocket-launches-to-home-soil.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The British government is preparing to launch its first commercial rocket from the country by 2021, and has upped its funding and partnerships with American companies to do so, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/04\/us-space-companies-are-bringing-rocket-launches-to-the-uk.html\" class=\"\">reports<\/a> CNBC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details:<\/strong> Lockheed Martin has already been allotted the largest chunk of UKSA\u2019s (United Kingdom Space Agency) funding, receiving over $30 million \u201cto develop an orbital launch site for small rockets in Melness, Scotland.\u201d The company told CNBC, \u201c[t]he launcher will be a flight-proven, dedicated small sat vehicle.\u201d Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Orbit also locked in a deal with UKSA \u201cto launch its LauncherOne rocket from Cosmic Girl,\u201d and plans to be the first to launch a commercial rocket from the island in the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Read more toggle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/britain-looks-to-bring-commercial-rocket-launches-to-home-soil-3532a893-04f5-4dd6-9a40-385ddb3557ff.html\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/britain-looks-to-bring-commercial-rock...557ff.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government is preparing to launch its first commercial rocket from the country by 2021, and has upped its funding and partnerships with American companies to do so, reports CNBC. The details: Lockheed Martin has already been allotted the largest chunk of UKSA\u2019s (United Kingdom Space Agency) funding, receiving over $30 million \u201cto develop [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}