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Spaceport 1 is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 57.6493°, -7.4854°.

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Spaceport 1

Spaceport 1 in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Spaceport 1 is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Spaceport 1 is a spaceport under construction in Scolpaig in North Uist, Scotland. Planning permission was granted in 2023 despite significant objections. Construction work for the enabling infrastructure started in November 2024. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) granted airspace approval in December 2025. The site is designed to be a low-impact multi-customer sub-orbital vertical launch facility. It is expected to build on capabilities and experience from the nearby MOD Hebrides.

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In 2018, the North Uist site lost out to the Sutherland spaceport for £2.5m in UK Government funding to develop the first vertical launch site. In 2019 (the local council) agreed to invest £1m to purchase land at Scolpaig for the construction of a launch facility, in a consortium with Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the UK technology company QinetiQ and the consultancy Commercial Space Technologies (CST). Rockets would be launched vertically to carry payloads of up to 500kg into Sun synchronous and polar orbits. The project was initially promised to create 50 to 70 jobs. The approved the project in June 2023, despite 244 responses opposing the development including a petition with nearly…

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