Open day gives public chance to learn more about Sutherland Spaceport
Members of the public were given the opportunity to learn about Sutherland Spaceport and how construction is progressing at an open day held by Orbex last month.
Orbex, an orbital launch services company with a base in Forres, is developing and will operate the £20 million spaceport which is being built on a site at the A’Mhoine peninsula, near Tongue.
Information about the spaceport was on display at the Kyle Centre in Tongue and visitors to the open day were taken to see the ’floating road’ currently being built over peat to access the remote site.
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Spaceport programme manager John May said the one-and-a-half mile stretch of floating road, which includes bridges over watercourses, was around 90 per cent finished.
Orbex stressed that great care had been taken to minimise disturbance to birds and wildlife.
The company is awaiting a decision on its application to relocate the spaceport’s antenna park from the site a A’Mhoine to the summit of Ben Tongue. There have been a number of objections to the proposal.
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