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The John Batchelor Show

#SCOTLAND: Game of Spaceports. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the

0:05.0

CVS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor.

0:08.0

Behind the black, 14 years of your subscriptions and donations most appreciated. This is the final

0:14.8

occasion of the July fundraiser and thank you very much because we're going to a

0:19.9

billionaire fighting space sports to get off the ground.

0:23.0

We're headed to commercial space,

0:25.1

but first you've got to find a place on Earth to land and take off.

0:29.2

Bob Scotland is troubled by a billionaire.

0:32.2

Why?

0:33.2

Yes, there are two spaceports that, commercial space

0:35.8

that want to get established in the UK.

0:37.9

One is on the channel islands called Saxe-Forre,

0:40.6

and the other one is on the very northern tip of Scotland called Sutherland, Sutherland Space Hub.

0:46.7

And there is a billionaire, his name is Andes Poz, Pozlin, I'm not pronouncing that, to also our land on the northern coast of

0:57.2

southern where this space fort wants to be.

1:00.6

And he's opposed to southern space port consists on his suit he lost his suit to try to shut it down

1:06.2

he interestingly has invested in the Saxe-For the spaceport in the Shetland Islands

1:11.7

so there's a bit of a conflict of interest there.

1:14.1

He has now sued again. He's trying to block Saxe, not Saxe,

1:20.8

Sveord, not Saxe-S-Forlin putting on and it putting up an antenna on a nearby peak for helping

1:27.0

to do range observations during launches he claims this is going to hurt the landscape uh... quote in detail, I'm not going to go into it here,

1:35.3

that it's absolutely his complaints absolutely absurd.

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