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

£11.5M of public funding down the drain.

  • Rogue@feddit.uk
    4·
    8 days ago

    I strongly believe in large infrastructure projects to improve communities, provide construction jobs etc etc. But the idea that the UK needed a space port is absurd.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      1·
      7 days ago

      Glasgow is the biggest satellite manufacturing location in Europe, so it probably does make sense to have some kind of launch capacity nearby too. It just, as the other person already said, perhaps makes less sense to have two separate launch sites servicing the same market