The UK's first complete ground rocket test since the Black Arrow Programme, 50 years ago, has taken place in Scotland. A team from Skyrora, a European private launch vehicle company headquartered in Edinburgh, has successfully built a mobile launch complex and completed a full static fire test with the Skylark-L rocket. A report from Space Newsfeed (spacenewsfeed. com) states that the Skylark-L rocket could be ready for launch form a British spaceport from as early as spring 2021. The ground test took place at the mobile launch complex at Kildemorie Estate in North Scotland in early May. During the test the Skylark-L performed all actions of a launch, but was restrained to the ground and prevented from taking off. Skylark-L is a sub-orbital flight vehicle with the potential to reach a height of 100km (62 miles) and carry a payload of up to 60kg.
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