S8 Ep1107: Preview for Later Today: Bob Zimmerman explains how bureaucratic red tape is stalling rocket launches at Scotland's SaxaVord spaceport. UK regulators are demanding a costly security fence to keep sheep away before permitting private spaceflight. (6)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 July 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:31.5 | John Batchel, speaking with my colleague Bob Zimmerman, |
| 0:34.3 | about an attempt again by a private company to launch from Saxovoort, a private |
| 0:38.9 | spaceboard in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, the UK. What is the problem? Apparently, the civil |
| 0:46.2 | service in Britain has multiple problems getting a spaceboard launched. They fail, they drift, nothing happens. |
| 0:55.6 | One more time. |
| 0:57.4 | Bob explaining, |
| 0:59.9 | waiting for clearance to build a fence. |
| 1:02.8 | Why? |
| 1:04.0 | Here, listen to Bob, |
| 1:05.2 | and then I provide the answer for what the fence is for, |
| 1:09.4 | and it ain't space. |
| 1:15.5 | Here's Bob. Rock bob rockets that's why all so here's the case of saxford is supposedly very close to its first launch rocket factory augsburg which is a |
| 1:21.3 | german startup competitor with iSar actually has the rocket at saxford on Shetland Islands. It says it wants to launch in July. |
| 1:30.2 | It submitted a request to launch in July. We have no word yet whether they're going to be |
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