Launching ambitions: the UK looks to new orbital frontiers

<p>Will the first rockets to take off from a remote site in Shetland help the UK realise its goal of being a major spacefaring nation? Unst in the Shetland Isles is as far north as you can go in the British Isles, but Scott Hammond believes the sparsely populated, treeless, windswept island – two ferry…</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.flightglobal.com/archive/2026/07/launching-ambitions-the-uk-looks-to-new-orbital-frontiers/">Launching ambitions: the UK looks to new orbital frontiers</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.flightglobal.com">FlightGlobal</a>.</p>