A permanent airspace has been approved for around the site of a spaceport proposed for the Western Isles.<\/p>\n
The permission from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) would allow for launches of small rockets carrying satellites from Spaceport-1.<\/p>\n
Western Isles local authority – Comhairle nan Eilean Siar – has proposed building the facility at Scolpaig in North Uist.<\/p>\n
The CAA said it had approved the airspace with conditions, which would be published later.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the Scottish government decided not to call-in the controversial plans.<\/p>\n
It had received 244 individual public responses opposing the plans, including a petition with almost 1,000 signatures.<\/p>\n
The government’s decision meant councillors’ earlier approval of the planning application still stood.<\/p>\n
The comhairle had hoped the first launches of small satellites might be possible by early 2025.<\/p>\n
The CAA said the airspace design would become effective on 22 January next year.<\/p>\n
Spaceport-1 is one of a number of sites being developed in Scotland. <\/p>\n
Others include SaxaVord Spaceport in Unst, Shetland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A permanent airspace has been approved for around the site of a spaceport proposed for the Western Isles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-192493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}