Saxavord Spaceport

SaxaVord Spaceport, previously known as Shetland Space Centre, is a planned spaceport to be located on the Lamba Ness peninsula on Unst, the most northerly of the Shetland Islands. The proposed site is near the RAF Saxa Vord radar station and the settlement of Skaw. Lockheed Martin's UK Pathfinder satellite launch system may launch from this spaceport. The proposed launch vehicle under this programme is the RS1 from ABL Space Systems, a US-based company developing 27 m tall rockets capable of carrying payloads up to 1000 kg into a Sun-synchronous orbit. The UK Pathfinder Launch programme is supported by £23.5 million of UK Space Agency grants. The launch site would also be used by HyImpulse Technologies, a German rocket maker developing rockets that use environmentally-friendly hybrid fuel technology using green paraffin-based fuel as a propellant, aiming for engine and suborbital testing by the end of 2021, with orbital launches by 2023.

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