This is John Batcher speaking with my good friend Bob Zimmerman about a new spaceboard opening in Norway.

The significance here is that there's competition for spaceports around the world.

Some countries are moving very slowly.

United Kingdom looks to be an example.

Some countries have moved faster,

but then again there is regulation. That would be the United States.

It's a puzzle. Why these countries do not see spaceports as a source of revenue and growth. It's a puzzle.

They're regulating spaceports as if they're a railroad line through somebody's backyard.

Odd. But it is the power of government to

slow things down and to worry about safety I guess. Here's Bob Zimmerman to describe the Norway

spaceport that's going straight ahead and then in a good position to gather business

more of this tonight. No no no, this is a case, this is just the opposite.

Norway has approved the spaceport license for the Andoya

Spaceport on its coast.

This is the spaceport's been used for sub-orbital tests

launches for many, many decades. But they decided to try to go commercial

about a year ago to do orbital test launches. They signed a contract with another German rocket startup.

I saw aerospace for a 20 year lease.

Very quickly, the Norway bureaucracy has given them a launch a space port license.

So I expect the red tape here to be a lot less than in Shetland.

The competition is going to make the UK sweat a little bit because one of the reasons

And Doy exists because they realized they had an opportunity. The UK was

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