The first chief of space operations for the US, General John W Raymond, toured the facilities of Skyrora as US interest grows in the British rocket company.
UK rocket company Skyrora has taken another important step towards an orbital launch from British soil by opening a new manufacturing and production facility, the largest of its kind in the UK.
Lee Rosen, Colonel, US Air Force (ret), and ex-VP of mission and launch operations, and customer operations and integration at SpaceX, has been appointed as chief operations officer for Skyrora.
Rocket company Skyrora has successfully completed a 70kN rocket engine test, marking a key milestone in its contract under the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support Programme (CSTS).