An English surfing resort was counting down the final minutes until it launches the first satellites from Western Europe on Monday, with Virgin Orbit's 'Cosmic Girl' awaiting take-off on the runway of Newquay's spaceport in Cornwall.
'Start Me Up' mission will deploy nine small satellites
The "horizontal" launch will catapult the resort in southwest England - population 20,000 and famous for its reliable Atlantic waves - into the limelight as Western Europe's go-to destination for small satellites., part-owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, said nine satellites would be deployed into lower Earth orbit from its LauncherOne rocket in its first mission outside its United States base.
Deputy Chief Executive Ian Annett said more small satellites were built in Britain than anywhere outside of the United States, and the country hosted operation centres for companies like Inmarsat. The company has previously launched from California. Chief Executive Dan Hart said the protocols would stay the same, joking to reporters: "Pasties versus hamburgers, it's a significant shift."
Retired teacher Pauline Clifton, who had come from Falmouth in the south of the county, said she was always confident that the spaceport would come to fruition. "To be leading the way in anything is quite something for Cornwall," she said.
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