Spaceport 1
Sited at Scolpaig, North Uist, Spaceport 1 will be a low impact, high-tech, multi-customer suborbital vertical launch facility, bringing sustainable employment and economic growth to one of the UK’s most economically and demographically fragile areas. Capitalising on the site’s ideal geographical positioning and the experience and capabilities of the nearby Hebrides Range, Spaceport 1 will offer much needed launch and payload services to the global commercial suborbital launch market and stimulate inward investment and business development and diversification.
Islands Growth Deal, HIE and the Comhairle’s financial support for the Enabling Infrastructure phase of the development will lever in private sector investment and attract a commercial site operator.
The project alongside the Shetland Space Innovation Campus project, will support the shared Governmental ambitions to become a leading space nation. Both projects will support the creation of flourising space ecosystems in and around launch sites and will bring additional economic and societal opportunities to the islands communities.
Spaceport 1 project will be supported with investment of up to £1 million from the Scottish Government.
Contact Alison MacCorquodale for more information on Spaceport 1.