Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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#SaxaVord #spaceport is now mapped *🗺️ in #OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/16174821
HowTo : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Dspaceport
*Currently as "contruction", not "spaceport". As soon as this will be done, you'll be able to search for "spaceport" in #OsmAnd (#offline #maps update always beginning of the month http://download.osmand.net/list.php). #App : https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/index.html
#saxavord #spaceport #openstreetmap #osmand #offline #Maps #App
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1418 followers · 1167 posts · Server techhub.social#SaxaVord is planning to apply to extend the capability to 50 launches 🚀 a year. The only downtime will be six weeks between May to June when the company must pause for the nesting 🐣 season. A #hotel 🏨 and visitor centre are planned for the thousands of #tourists 📷 expected https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/24/uk-spaceport-launch-shetland-caa/
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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🏴 #SaxaVord #Spaceport : The first lift-off will be a #SubOrbital #rocket 🚀 made by #HyImpulse 🇩🇪, expected around 📆 October 2023. In 📆 April 2024, #RocketFactory aims to achieve the first-ever #orbital #satellite 🛰️ launch from a #LaunchPad called Fredo.
#SaxaVord will build a total of five #LaunchPads, with the site able to take #rockets up to 35 metres long 📏. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23611304.saxavord-spaceport-shetland-just-weeks-away-recognition/
Picture : #Latitude Test Zone at SaxaVord Spaceport https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latitude_Test_Zone_at_SaxaVord_Spaceport_1.jpg
#saxavord #spaceport #suborbital #rocket #hyimpulse #rocketfactory #orbital #satellite #LaunchPad #launchpads #rockets #latitude
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1402 followers · 1057 posts · Server techhub.social#Times 📆 May 17 2023 #SaxaVord #Spaceport : the first #SpaceRocket 🚀 blasting off from a #British 🇬🇧 launchpad can begin in earnest this summer https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shetland-islands-spaceport-could-be-licensed-within-months-8x9pjd9j3
#times #saxavord #spaceport #spacerocket #british
NASASpaceFlight Tracker · @nsf_tracker
1 followers · 181 posts · Server beratna.netOrbex breaks ground on Sutherland Spaceport as UK prepares to enter domestic launch market
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05/orbex-sutherland-spaceport/
United Kingdom (UK) based spaceflight company Orbex has begun construction at the Sutherland Spaceport in… The post Orbex breaks ground on Sutherland Spaceport as UK prepares to enter domestic launch market appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .
#Commercial #European #Orbex #Prime #SaxaVord #Smallsat #Sutherland #UK #UKSA
#commercial #european #orbex #prime #saxavord #smallsat #sutherland #uk #uksa
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1156 followers · 738 posts · Server techhub.social#SaxaVord 🏴 #Spaceport chief executive Frank Strang compared the current state of the #UK’s 🇬🇧 #SpaceIndustry https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org.uk/keys/aerospace%3Aproduct to the #industrial #revolution, as it was developing at a very fast pace. https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2023/03/02/criticism-of-space-regulator-grossly-unfair-strang-insists
#saxavord #spaceport #uk #spaceindustry #industrial #revolution
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1075 followers · 573 posts · Server techhub.social#RocketFactory #Augsburg (#RFA) 🇩🇪 plans to begin testing the core stages of its #rockets 🚀 at #SaxaVord 🏴 in the summer.
It was thought that #LockheedMartin 🇺🇸 could be the first company to launch from #Scotland 🏴, but it has pushed back its UK Pathfinder mission.
British 🇬🇧 #microlaunch startup #Orbex is also in the running to be the first flight out of #Scotland https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/11/german-firm-could-beat-richard-branson-race-launch-satellites
#rocketfactory #augsburg #RFA #rockets #saxavord #lockheedmartin #scotland #microlaunch #orbex
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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📆 January 30, 2023 #Latitude 🇫🇷 tests engines for the #Zephyr #rocket 🚀 at #SaxaVord 🏴 - "conditions on #Unst were challenging. Wind speeds were extreme, it rained 🌧️ constantly, snow wasn’t out of the question, and on two separate occasions during the team’s three to four months on Unst, the entire island lost #power 🔋and #communication" https://payloadspace.com/latitude-fires-up-its-engine-for-the-first-time/
#latitude #zephyr #rocket #saxavord #Unst #power #communication
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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#SaxaVord #spaceport under construction but may be found in #OsmAnd or other #OpenStreetMap - based #apps & #maps https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=SaxaVord+Spaceport&point=SaxaVord+Spaceport&layer=Esri+Satellite
#saxavord #spaceport #osmand #openstreetmap #apps #Maps
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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#SaxaVord #spaceport is now mapped 🗺️ in #OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/131263981
#saxavord #spaceport #openstreetmap
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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📆 January 11, 2023 #RocketFactory Augsburg (#RFA) 🇩🇪 maiden flight planned end of 2023 from #SaxaVord #Spaceport in #Scotland 🏴 https://saxavord.com/r
Lamba Ness peninsula on Unst, the most northerly of the #Shetland Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SaxaVord_Spaceport
Picture : Lamba Ness https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snouska_Geo,_Lamba_Ness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3771108.jpg
#rocketfactory #RFA #saxavord #spaceport #scotland #shetland
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
934 followers · 458 posts · Server techhub.social@Tergenev I don't know how optimistic the Scottish government usually is, did Elon possibly infect them ? 😜 2 launches planned from #SaxaVord in 1st and 2nd quarter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_January%E2%80%93June_2023, three for #Sutherland in the 2nd half of the year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_July%E2%80%93December_2023
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
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#Times 📆 January 02 2023 #Scottish 🏴 #spaceports #Sutherland, #SaxaVord months from sending #satellites to #orbit https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scottish-spaceports-months-from-sending-satellites-to-orbit-wthvqmbjg
#times #Scottish #Spaceports #sutherland #saxavord #satellites #orbit