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Lift-off for plans to launch satellites into space from Scotland

By PA News

Published: 11:40, 19 August 2020

| Updated: 12:24, 25 August 2020

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An impression of the launchpad in Sutherland (NORR/HIE)

Plans to launch satellites into orbit from Scotland have been approved.

Highland Council has given permission to Space Hub Sutherland to install a launchpad on land owned by Melness Crofters Estate on the A’...

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