Once completed, Spaceport 1—which carries a price tag of £2.6 million, or $3.3 million, for enabling works—is set to be the U.K.'s only dedicated commercial suborbital launch site.

Space news and reference site. Orbex, ... The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 5, 2023, on the 10-acre launch site within the community-owned Melness Crofters Estate.

Melness Crofters' Estate (MCE) wants to work with HIE and Orbex to get the spaceport operational. A spokesperson told BBC Scotland News: "We were never just doing this for Melness.

“The UK Space Agency has invested £8.5 million in Scottish-based launch technologies through the European Space Agency’s Boost! programme, as well as £2.5 million towards the spaceport and ...

Once completed, Spaceport 1—which carries a price tag of £2.6 million, or $3.3 million, for enabling works—is set to be the U.K.'s only dedicated commercial suborbital launch site.

A Highland peatbog was to be home to the UK's first spaceport. But more than six years after a UK government announcement confirming the plan, rockets launching from Sutherland Spaceport seems ...

“The UK Space Agency has invested £8.5 million in Scottish-based launch technologies through the European Space Agency’s Boost! programme, as well as £2.5 million towards the spaceport and ...

Melness Crofters' Estate (MCE) wants to work with HIE and Orbex to get the spaceport operational. A spokesperson told BBC Scotland News: "We were never just doing this for Melness.