Scotland chosen as site for first British space port
AFP
| 2018/07/16 | 143 words
| LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | SPACE
The UK Space agency said Sunday that it had chosen a peninsula on Scotland's north coast as the site of the country's first space port."Scotland is the best place in the UK to reach in-demand satellite orbits with vertically launched rockets," the agency said in a statement. According to the head of the agency, Graham Turnock, the new space port will "help kick-start an exciting new era for the UK space industry".The choice of Sutherland for the new space port confirms Scotland's ambitions i...(…)
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