British commercial spaceport | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-03

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00:00:46 1 History
00:01:44 1.1 Shortlist:  early 2015
00:02:59 1.2 End of competition:  2016
00:03:29 2 See also



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SUMMARY
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The British commercial spaceport competition was a plan by the UK government announced in early 2014 to select a site, build a commercial spaceport, and have it in operation by 2018.  Although six sites were shortlisted for possible selection by 2015, the competition was ended without a selection in May 2016 and replaced by a statement from the UK government regulatory agency that they would support rules that would allow a commercial spaceport to be built at any suitable location.
The UK-sponsored spaceport envisioned in the competition was intended to be used to launch both human-carrying flights and commercial satellite missions.