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Denne typen oppskyting er på ingen måte vanlig, men UK og andre er i sterk konkurranse om dette markedet, altså oppskyting av mindre raketter som kan sette ut satellitter. Andøya Space bygger nå et helt nytt oppskytingsområde i direkte konkurranse med svenskenes Esrange ved Kiruna og andre. (Red.)

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UK space launch: Historic Cornwall rocket mission set to blast off

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Image source, Reuters

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Using a plane to carry a rocket part way into the sky is termed a "horizontal launch system"

By Rebecca Morelle and Jonathan Amos

BBC News Climate and Science

The first ever orbital space launch from British soil is getting ready to blast off.

Monday's mission will see a repurposed 747 jumbo jet release a rocket over the Atlantic to take nine satellites high above the Earth.

Newquay Airport in Cornwall is the starting point for the operation, shortly before midnight GMT

If it succeeds, it will be a major milestone for UK space, marking the birth of a home-grown launch industry.

"What we've seen over the last eight years is this building of excitement towards something very aspirational and different for Cornwall, something that started off as a project that not a lot of people really believed was ever going to happen," said Melissa Thorpe, who heads up Spaceport Cornwall.

"What I think people have seen here in Cornwall is a small team that lives and breathes this county deliver something quite incredible."

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