Lockheed Martin Rocket Lab Electron launch
An illustration of a Lockheed Martin-provided launch vehicle, a version of Rocket Lab's Electron, lifting off from the U.K.'s proposed spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland.

The British government announced July 16 that it will provide funding to two companies, including an American aerospace giant, who plan to use a newly announced launch site in Scotland.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...