“We want to be a public facing spaceport, we want to get as many people in as possible”. That is the message coming out of Spaceport Cornwall as it looks towards the future, after a busy first half of the year.
Last week the Newquay-based enterprise announced that it had signed a facilities deal with Canadian aerospace company, Space Engine Systems. This came off the back of Spaceport Cornwall’s head, Melissa Quinn, announcing that she would be stepping down, and not that long after Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit ceased operations after falling into administration. Virgin Orbit attempted the first space launch from UK soil at Spaceport Cornwall earlier this year, but it ended in failure when the rocket suffered an "anomaly".
Spaceport Cornwall’s business development manager, Ross Hulbert spoke to BusinessLive about what is in store for the spaceport now.
