Orbex is building a satellite launch pad on the A’Mhoine peninsula in SutherlandThe head of a company building a spaceport in a remote area of northwest Scotland has admitted that he would not like it constructed in his “backyard”. Chris Larmour is the chief executive of Orbex, which plans to launch small satellites from its site on a peat bog on the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland from next year. SponsoredThe plan has been approved by Highland council despite hundreds of objections, including from Anders Povlsen, the Danish billionaire and conservationist who owns a neighbouring estate, over concerns that it will damage an expanse of peat bog. Chris Larmour said he could understand the opposition to the scheme MICHAL WACHUCIK/AFP/GETTY IMAGESLarmour, who lives in Munich, told a space industry forum that when building a new spaceport “you tend to meet some resistance. I mean, literally, the spaceport at Sutherland, it’s in

Source: The Times May 06, 2021 22:52 UTC