PROJECT SUMMARY www.spaceportcornwall.com To Bude and Barnstaple The Project To Exeter and M5 A39 Spaceport Cornwall is working with A30 a number of commercial spaceflight Padstow Wadebridge Bodmin partners to develop horizontal satellite Cornwall Airport Newquay St Columb A392 A38 launch services and sub-orbital flights Newquay Plymouth for scientific and space tourism purposes. A30 A390 St Austell Spaceport Cornwall has bid for a Spaceplane Systems Integration Facility Truro comprising a hangar and clean rooms; a bespoke hangar for sub-orbital space tourism vehicles with a Space Gateway building; rocket engine and propulsion Falmouth test facility, plus offices. Penzance Goonhilly Earth Station Cornwall Airport Newquay Goonhilly Earth Station Cornwall Airport Newquay is the UK’s newest airport with one of the Goonhilly Earth Station is a privately owned fully operational longest (2,744 metres) runways in the UK. satellite telecommunications teleport with space vehicle tracking and communications facilities on the south coast of Cornwall. It has uncongested and segregated airspace, and direct access over the sea on the north coast of Cornwall. It is publicly-owned by Cornwall Council and has one of the It is also home to the South West Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications, one of UK’s largest planning free environments, including a 50-acre business park. five such centres in the UK to help accelerate the development and take-up of satellite applications. 2 | Spaceport Project Summary | www.spaceportcornwall.co.uk Both Cornwall Airport Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station fall By building on the nationally significant assets at Cornwall Airport within Cornwall’s Aerohub Enterprise Zone, a UK Government Newquay and Goonhilly Earth Station, Spaceport Cornwall will designation which offers tax incentives to encourage inward contribute significantly to the local and UK economy while investment and job creation. Together they offer a complete promoting science, research and innovation to a new generation. launch and tracking solution to commercial space operators. The LEP is also working collaboratively with three other Southern Spaceport Cornwall is a key priority for the Cornwall and Isles England LEPs to support delivery of the Government’s National of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), whose job is to drive Space Policy and key pillars of its Industrial Strategy. economic growth and the creation of quality jobs in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The LEP has identified space as a major opportunity for Cornwall to win global market share in an emerging and fast-growing market. www.spaceportcornwall.co.uk | Spaceport Project Summary | 3 www.spaceportcornwall.com Design79.co.uk.