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<p>The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) was commissioned to research and produce the
2014 Government Spaceplan Review of commercial spaceplane certification and operations.
In addition to identifying key criteria for UK spaceports, and identifying potential
locations based on these, the Spaceplane Review also set out the potential for horizontal
spaceplane operations from the UK and provided prospective businesses with the detailed
groundwork for making commercial spaceflight operations in the UK a reality. This
work is now providing the basis for the legislative measures that will be brought
forward in the Modern Transport Bill to enable a broad commercial space market to
develop in the UK. The Department for Transport contributed approximately £223,000
to this Review and the CAA’s subsequent work. The Department also incurred estimated
costs of £86,000 in support of the 2014 Spaceplane Review and consulting on the review’s
key criteria and conclusions on spaceport location, the outcome of which was published
in March 2015 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/spaceport-locations-and-criteria"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/spaceport-locations-and-criteria</a>.</p><p>
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