Where are Launch Sites in the UK?
The following list of launch sites used by UKRA affiliated rocketry groups or members:
- Launch Site: EARS
- Location: near Elsworth, Cambridgeshire
- Motor Power Limit: M-class power limit (Contact EARS in advance if you wish to fly M class)
- Altitude Ceiling: 8000 feet standard ceiling (Higher ceilings available on occasion where an additional NOTAM has been granted).
- Associated Rocketry Group: EARS
- URL: http://www.ears.org.uk
- Contact: Mike Roberts
- Email: info @ ears.org.uk
- Details: EARS is one of the best regular launch sites in the UK. They hold launches each month from March - September. The also hold a large launch in May called Big EARS and a Fireworks spectacular in November.
- Launch Site: Milson Airstrip
- Location: near Tenbury Wells, West Midlands
- Motor Power Limit: I class Site
- Altitude Ceiling: 6000 - 12,000 feet depending on recovery methods.
- Associated Rocketry Group: Black Knights
- URL: http://www.blackknights.org.uk
- Contact: Mark Perman
- Email: clubinfo @ blackknights.org.uk
- Details: Black Knights hold monthly launches please see their website for more details.
- Launch Site: Ormskirk (near Liverpool)
- Location: Ormskirk (near Liverpool)
- Associated Rocketry Group: WRS
- URL: http://www.rokits.org/
- Email: Contact via the link from their website.
- Details: WRS hold launches on the second Saturday every month at one of their launch sites around Ormskirk. Please see thier website for more information.
- Launch Site: Redwich Site
- Location: Gwent Levels, South Wales
- Altitude Ceiling: 3000 feet
- Associated Rocketry Group: FOG
- URL: http://hometown.aol.co.uk/fogrocketry/index.html
- Contact: Phil Charlesworth
- Email: Contact via the link from their website.
- Details: FOG hold monthly launches, for more details visit their website
- Launch Site: Walland Marsh
- Location: between Rye (East Sussex) and Brenzett (Kent), near Ashford in the South-East
- Altitude Ceiling: 5500 feet
- Associated Rocketry Group: CROCK
- URL: http://www.crock.org.uk
- Contact: Contact via the form on the CROCK website
- Details: CROCK hold monthly launches for more details visit their website.
- Launch Site: Les's Farm.
- Location: Ayrshire, Scotland.
- Motor Power Limit: K-class regular power limit.
- Altitude Ceiling: 4000 feet standard ceiling.
- Associated Rocketry Group: STAAR Research.
- URL: http://www.gbnet.net/orgs/staar/
- Contact: John Bonsor.
- Details: This launch site is one of the High Power launch sites for the Annual International Rocket Week/Weekend at the end of August, and is used in conjunction with the Kelburn Launch Site.
- Launch Site: Fairlie Moor.
- Location: Ayrshire, Scotland.
- Motor Power Limit: K-class regular power limit.
- Altitude Ceiling: 4000 feet standard ceiling.
- Associated Rocketry Group: STAAR Research.
- URL: http://www.gbnet.net/orgs/staar/
- Contact: John Bonsor.
- Details: This launch site is one of the High Power launch sites for the Annual International Rocket Week/Weekend at the end of August, and is used in conjunction with the Kelburn Launch Site.
- Launch Site: Folly Gate.
- Location: Okehampton, Devon.
- Motor Power Limit: K-class regular power limit.
- Altitude Ceiling: 10000 feet standard ceiling.
- Associated Rocketry Group: SWARM.
- URL: http://www.swarmrocketry.co.uk
- Contact: Jim Lennie.
- Details: This launch site has been used for High Altitude flights, but please contact SWARM first.
