Spaceport Cornwall and National Drone Hub launch UK BVLOS and autonomy testing programme

Spaceport Cornwall — the UK’s first licensed spaceport — and the National Drone Hub have launched a BVLOS and advanced-autonomy testing programme that will combine military and civilian airspace over Cornwall. The partnership creates a unique UK testbed for validating long-range, autonomous uncrewed aerial systems.

Discovered 2025-12-15T08:03:56.505644-08:00 | 2025-12-15T08:03:56.505644-08:00

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  • Establishes a military–civil combined-airspace testbed at a licensed spaceport to accelerate BVLOS and autonomy validation, directly aligned with the UK CAA’s "Future of Flight" BVLOS roadmap.
  • Expands national test-hub capacity and complements recent CAA approvals and regional investment in Cornwall and Wales, including the Snowdonia test-hub clearance and funding for the Open Skies Cornwall spinout.
  • Creates an operational environment to mature UTM, command-and-control and mixed crewed–uncrewed operations, supporting the same integration challenges addressed by industry moves such as the uAvionix–OneSky surveillance integration and recent BVLOS trials.

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