{"id":6294,"date":"2023-03-30T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2023-03-30T13:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:03:22","slug":"shetland-enters-new-frontier-as-uk-space-industry-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2023\/03\/30\/shetland-enters-new-frontier-as-uk-space-industry-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Shetland enters new frontier as UK space industry leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shetland is set to be at the heart of Scotland\u2019s &#8211; and the UK\u2019s &#8211; space industry success story, UK Government Minister for Scotland John Lamont said as he visited the Saxa Vord spaceport on Unst.<\/p>\n<p>Saxa Vord is on track to launch its first satellites in 2023 \u2013 part of UK-wide efforts to gain up to a \u00a34bn share of the global space market by the end of the decade. The Minister visited the site\u2019s first, newly completed concrete launch pad, one of three orbital launch pads that will support up to 30 vertical launches a year from the former RAF station site, employing up to 200 people in connection with each launch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/shetland-enters-new-frontier-as-uk-space-industry-leader\">More details here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2023\/03\/30130057\/shetlandspace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2023\/03\/30\/shetland-enters-new-frontier-as-uk-space-industry-leader\/shetlandspace\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2023\/03\/30130057\/shetlandspace.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,195\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"shetlandspace\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2023\/03\/30130057\/shetlandspace.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2023\/03\/30130057\/shetlandspace.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6295 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2023\/03\/30130057\/shetlandspace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shetland is set to be at the heart of Scotland\u2019s &#8211; and the UK\u2019s &#8211; space industry success story, UK Government Minister for Scotland John Lamont said as he visited the Saxa Vord spaceport on Unst. Saxa Vord is on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2023\/03\/30\/shetland-enters-new-frontier-as-uk-space-industry-leader\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}