Protesters say spaceports could cause environmental harm in Scotland (Image: NQ) By Ross Hunter, Published by The National, 3 October 2023 CAMPAIGNERS are calling on the Scottish Government to withdraw support for new spaceports in Scotland. Protesters from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Drone Wars UK appeared outside Holyrood
By Nicholas Francoeur, Published by Payload Space, 28 September 2023 This opinion piece is written by Nicholas Francoeur, an active-duty officer in the US Space Force. Most recently, he was the director of LEO and GEO operations, and was previously a senior range operations commander at Cape Canaveral. These views
By Donovan Lynch, Published by News Center Maine, 25 September 2023 While many in Steuben invite BluShift Aerospace's plans for a rocket hub, others say it will harm fisheries and pollute the Gulf of Maine. STEUBEN, Maine — Blushift Aerospace's effort to build a rocket launching point in Downeast Maine
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.
