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Scots nature agency's concerns for seabirds from space centre plan Scotland’s natural heritage agency has raised concerns for important seabird colonies from a proposed space centre in Shetland. NatureScot is to insist that managers of the proposed spaceport in Shetland does not carry out rocket launches during the breeding season fearing that without that protected populations on the island of Unst could disappear. The plan is for the space centre to be be used by Lockheed Martin's UK Pathfinder satellite launch system and it would enable up to 30 launches per year. It follows the ...

http://shet.news/x1g1f Copied! SOME planning services in Shetland have been temporarily suspended in the hope of allowing staff more time to process a backlog of applications. The free planning duty officer and pre-application enquiry services were halted on Monday (22 February), and they are only due to return at the end of March. The council’s planning manager Iain McDiarmid said the service is suffering from staff shortages and a heavy workload. 3 of 14Adverts He said the service is to focus on its statutory function of processing applications. “This will benefit everyone in the...

http://shet.news/62bty Copied! A SATELLITE launch site, as we all know, is planned for Unst – but what about the idea of creating the world’s first space training centre for children on the island too? The ambitious idea has been floated by California based ‘astronaut teacher’ and author Mike Mongo, who says the isolated nature of Unst would be a perfect fit for a training centre to get young people ready for travelling into space. 12 of 14Adverts He believes that “tomorrow’s jobs are in space” and that as ordinary people begin to travel there in the fut...

The otherworldly edge of Britain, home to white beaches, Viking legends and a curious bus stop The UK’s most northerly inhabited isle has a violent past, and a bold future One of the cutest residents of Unst Credit: Getty If the idea that rockets are about to hurtle into space from a remote Shetland isle sounds surreal, you’ve clearly not been to Unst. The UK’s most northerly inhabited isle is already otherworldly – we’re talking a bus stop that snares art awards, an old MOD base reborn as a resort with a (rather good) gin distillery, and a torrid history riven between Vikings and P...

First UK satellite launch to use ABL Space Systems’ RS1 rocket The first ever vertical small satellite launch from UK soil – due to take place in Scotland in 2022 – will also be the first UK commercial launch for ABL Space Systems’ new RS1 rocket. The project is dubbed “UK Pathfinder Launch” and is planned to take place from the Shetland Space Centre at Lamba Ness on Unst. ABL Space Systems, a US-based company, is a developer of low-cost launch vehicles and launch systems for small satellites. And Lockheed Martin, the UK Space Agency’s partner for the project, has contracted it ...