Scotland Is Going To Host The UK's First Spaceport

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The UK Government recently awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Orbex to being building and launching rockets out of a remote peninsula in the very north of the scottish mainland.
Lots of you have been asking whether this is a good place for a launch site, and whether the UK can even make an impact in the space launch market.



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