15 September 2021
Scottish billionaire ends legal challenge to Space Hub Sutherland
... remain deep reservations that additional, space-related development consents will be sought in connection with Space Hub Sutherland. We are mindful that extensive commitments have been made that the spaceport will be an exemplar for environmental...
10 December 2020
Orbex secures $24 million funding round for Scottish space launch
... services company. The new investments secure the roadmap to the first launch from the Space Hub Sutherland spaceport in Scotland. "Orbex is an impressive UK company which is developing a strongly differentiated and innovative launch solution for the...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
...to deliver small satellites into Earth orbit from the Sutherland spaceport using its innovative Prime rocket which uses a ... Pacific Spaceport Complex and Spaceport America. The UK’s Sutherland vertical launch site, and its potential future Newquay ...
21 August 2020
Scottish spaceport formally approved by Highland Council
... Committee granted its final approval for the construction of a “Space Hub” in the northern county of Sutherland. The Space Hub Sutherland project, put forward by the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), consists of control and processing...
12 February 2020
Planning is submitted for Europe’s first vertical launch site
... to 12 launches a year of small, commercial satellites that will typically be used for Earth observation could be made from Sutherland. David Oxley, director of business growth with HIE, believes that establishing vertical launch capability will mark...
16 September 2020
Spaceport developers form new alliance to accelerate UK growth
... Council (SSLC). Its membership comprises three vertical rocket launch sites – Shetland Space Centre, Space Hub Sutherland, and Spaceport 1, Western Isles – along with two that plan to operate plane based, horizontal launches – Glasgow...
