From Scotland to space?

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The UK is planning its own space station. Of Scotland, on the Peninsula of A’Mhoine in the Scottish County of Sutherland, may in a few years already the first rocket into space to start.

Computer animation of the group, Lockhead Martin, which is involved in the project

Selected the location in the extreme North of the Scottish Highlands, because satellites can be brought directly into a suitable orbit. The British government is currently considering, also, locations for the so-called horizontal Start-up of rockets. This aircraft will bring the rockets into high altitude, before they are launched on the sea. London is hoping that private space stations a boost for the economy by 3.8 billion British pounds (about 4.3 billion Euro) in the next ten years.

New Industrial Strategy

According to information from the UK space Agency, UK Space Agency, a consortium of, among other things, the American aerospace group Lockheed consulted with Martin to develop the project. The British government is involved with nearly 30 million pounds in the project. 24 million pounds of lockhead Martin. Around six million pounds will be provided to the British firm Orbex. “We want Britain to be the first place on the European mainland, the strategy developed a satellite program as part of his future Industry,” said economy Minister Greg Clark.

Almost in the extreme North of Scotland, the Panungsgelände is

The European space Agency ESA operates its spaceport in Kourou in the EU overseas region of French Guiana. The UK is under pressure, as the country was ruled by the Brexit from the future work on the 10-billion-Euro Galileo satellite navigation programme of the European Union.

The future of the industry

On the island, the space industry is a success story: it is growing four times faster than the Rest of the British economy. In an international comparison, the country has a share of seven per cent of the global space industry. Particularly smaller observation satellites belong to a growth industry. The global satellite industry currently has a volume of over 260 billion dollars.

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