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Melissa Quinn, Head of Spaceport Cornwall

Head of Spaceport Cornwall, Melissa Quinn, announces departure from role

Melissa Quinn, the Head of Spaceport Cornwall, has announced her departure from the organisation at the end of this month.

Melissa has been part of the Spaceport team since its inception in 2014, providing support for the UK Space Agency bid and taking on the head role in January 2021.

Spaceport Cornwall is a consortium of partners working together to develop the UK’s first...

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall

Spaceport Cornwall's Melissa Thorpe named as one to watch in 2022

The head of the UK’s first horizontal spaceport, based in Cornwall, has been named by the Observer as one of 2022’s “faces to watch”.

Melissa Thorpe, head of Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay, has been named alongside incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and UK foreign secretary Liz Truss as a key figure “who will be making headlines this year”.

Ms Thorpe is joined in the science...