Laura Edison is a Scottish solicitor and award-winning in-house lawyer who serves as founding General Counsel at Skyrora, one of the UK’s most ambitious space technology businesses with a focus on launch vehicles.

Building the company’s legal function from scratch, Laura played a pivotal role in navigating the regulatory and legal groundwork underpinning the UK’s first vertical launch licence, a landmark moment for the domestic space industry.

Her work spans commercial contracts, governance, and the novel compliance challenges of an emerging launch vehicle business, helping to shape what it means to practise space law in the UK.