Orbex announces it will instead launch its first rockets from SaxaVord in Shetland.

£11.5M of public funds to build a road to nowhere over a peat bog. Good job everyone.

    • Olap@lemmy.worldM
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      7 days ago

      Yup, grifters gotta grift. I said at the time both Shetland and Sutherland are fairly daft, just really hard to get stuff to either site! Labour though have let this site die (for good reason imo) and Skylon go down the pan. Not been a great year for the UK space industry