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PREVIEW: SPACEPORT: SCOTLAND: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman of BehindtheBlack.com re: SaxaVord, a Scottish spaceport, and the UK plan to pay commercial launch companies to launch -- and what can go wrong. More later in the week.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PREVIEW: SPACEPORT: SCOTLAND: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman of BehindtheBlack.com re: SaxaVord, a Scottish spaceport, and the UK plan to pay commercial launch companies to launch -- and what can go wrong. More later in the week.

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

0:29.0

This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good friend and colleague Bob Zimmerman behind the black about Saxeavord, that is a spaceport in Scotland that has not yet secured business to be a space port. The UK has decided in its wisdom

0:47.0

to hand out cash to start-ups, new companies to launch from Saxe-Vord, one in particular a German company.

0:54.1

However, Bob raises the question here as to why not solve the other problem,

1:00.0

which is the bureaucracy of the United Kingdom that we believe kept Virgin

1:06.4

orbit from launching once upon a time and has discouraged other companies from

1:10.8

launching in the UK? So is there a solution? Bob Zimmerman on the

1:16.8

United Kingdom in Scotland handing out cash to companies that come forward to

1:21.2

launch from Saxe- abhorred, at least for now, and one particular company,

1:25.8

High Impulse, looking like it's going to take the money.

1:29.6

More on this later in the week.

1:32.0

Thank you.

1:33.3

Bob Zimmerman.

1:35.2

I'm not sure myself.

1:37.2

What this appears to me is that the United Kingdom has decided to pay off a bunch of different rocket startups to keep them

1:47.0

from leaving the UK for their launch operations.

1:52.1

The biggest grant here was to the German rocket start up high impulse.

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