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Shetland spaceport ready for launch in July

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Mr Chambers said it was a purely commercial decision, as completing work at the site near Tongue would have cost £15m and the company had not raised as much money as hoped.

However, he suggested Orbex could restart work in Sutherland if it needs more launch capacity by 2028, adding: “It’s not a decision we took lightly and not one that is easy to chop and change.

“We have a new plan now, which is to do the first 10 launches a year from SaxaVord and then look for the additional capacity in Sutherland.”

He added that objections from Anders Holch Povlsen, Scotland’s richest man and an investor in SaxaVord Spaceport, had not prevented Sutherland from receiving planning permission.

Alan Thompson, head of government affairs at Skyrora, said his company aims to carry out a suborbital rocket launch from SaxaVord later this year.

He said Skyrora has experienced delays from the regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and had carried out its first test launch from Iceland as “we got tired of waiting”.


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