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The SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland’s Shetland Islands expects to host RFA One’s inaugural launch later this year.
Credit: SaxaVord Spaceport
This year, a vertical launch takeoff may occur from the UK for the first time in five decades. Two new spaceports in northern Scotland have been racing to be crowned the UK’s first vertical orbital launch site, not to mention the first to showcase a sovereign space capability in the country since...
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