Second stage static fire engine test moves Skyrora closer to UK launch<br /><br />Discover Space UK at Machrihanish Airbase hosts largest integrated stage test in<br /><br />the UK for 50 years<br /><br />Edinburgh, UK, 18th August 2022: Skyrora has successfully completed the static fire test of the<br />second stage of its flagship Skyrora XL orbital rocket. Discover Space UK at Machrihanish Airbase<br />hosted the biggest integrated stage test to be held in the UK since those of Black Arrow and Blue<br />Streak in the 1970s. Achieving this latest milestone moves Skyrora one crucial step closer to entering<br />commercial operations, with an inaugural orbital launch scheduled for 2023 from the Saxa Vord<br />Space Centre in northern Scotland.
