By Daniel Boffey, Published by The Guardian, 21 September 2023 Sweden is leading in a battle to be the first European space base outside Russia to launch a satellite into orbit First place is “nice but it’s not necessary”, says Stefan Gustafsson, a senior official at the Sweden Space Corporation
UK Space Agency chief executive Paul Bate in Shetland at the weekend. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News By Hans J Marter, Published by Shetland News, 11 September 2023 THE CHIEF executive of the UK Space Agency has expressed his confidence that SaxaVord could well be the UK spaceport that hosts
Published by Shetland Times, 18 August 2023 The spaceport in Unst is “firmly on track”, SaxaVord Spaceport has said in a brief statement. It comes after the company said construction workers had been given time off because the project was so far ahead of schedule. In a short statement today
By Gareth Corfield, Published by The Telegraph, 1 August 2023 Just months after Virgin Orbit’s collapse, a spaceport in Shetland is preparing for lift off Scotland’s first rocket launch will probably “blow up” but there might be a customer “prepared to take the risk”, the boss of Shetland’s spaceport has
One of the “standout features” of the discovery is the “remains of a quartz setting,” said the AOC Archaeology member. (File Photo: @SaxaVord_Space) Photograph:(Twitter) By Nishtha Badgamia, Published by Wion News, 30 July 2023 Archaeologists unearthed a 4,000-year-old cemetery in the Shetland Islands in northern Scotland, United Kingdom, last week.
Artists John Kippen and Nicola Neate, North Uist residents who oppose the proposed first phase of the spaceport. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian By Severin Carrell, Published by The Guardian, 25 July 2023 Project close to bird sanctuaries in Outer Hebrides gets go-ahead after no objections from Scotland’s environment agencies Plans
By Sarah Knapton, Published byThe Telegraph, 21 July 2023 Archaeologists uncover ‘tremendously exciting discovery’ at SaxaVord Spaceport in Unst, Shetland during construction work Britain’s first vertical space launch will take place on the site of an ancient Bronze Age crematorium, after archaeologists uncovered the remnants of charred human bone. The
By Rob Edwards, Published by The Ferret, 6 July 2023 Plans to launch rockets into space from the north of Shetland are facing allegations they could increase climate pollution by disrupting thousands of flights a year across the North Atlantic. Air traffic controllers in Iceland have warned that reserving airspace
