SUTHERLAND SPACEPORT SCOTLAND

The UK Government recently awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Orbex to being building and launching rockets out of a remote peninsula in the very north of the scottish mainland. Lots of you have been asking whether this is a good place for a launch site, and whether the UK can even make an impact in the space launch market.

Did you see the recent announcement at the Farnborough Airshow? Orbex has gained £30m in funding to enable them to set up the first Space Port in Sutherland Scotland. There was a bit of a media frenzy but we managed to elbow the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc. out of the way and we had a quick chat with Chris Larmour, the CEO of Orbex to find out more. Whilst we won’t be on the first flight, we will do our best to be there to see the takeoff – scheduled for 2021. Subscribe to our channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/MTDCNC?sub_confirmation=1 We have another Channel specifically for engineering company videos - view and subscribe here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1mNhd2gwIbamXoUZK-TRGg?sub_confirmation=1 MTDCNC are proud to offer a platform that educates engineers throughout the World. Our main audience is the UK market and you'll see from this video that we focus on learning and talking to UK based engineers. We do travel to Europe and review products on request of our clients. See Videos on MTDCNC here http://www.mtdcnc.com/tv/ It's not just videos that MTDCNC offers to our users, we promote used machine tools for sale, new machine tools for sale, ex demo machines and also related equipment, such as cutting tools, including end mills, drills, countersinking tools, shell mills, radius tools, boring tools, reamers and much more for both milling and turning. Beyond the cutting tools we also offer the accessory solutions, these include the Workholding, vices, 4th axis units, collet chucks, 3 jaw chucks, bar feeds and toolholders. Toolholders is an interesting one as this could be one of many differing toolholders such at BT40 tooling, BT30, HSK 63 and then for turning VDI 30/VDI 40 toolholders. Find new and used machine tools for sale here http://www.mtdcnc.com/products/machine-tools Find cutting tools for sale here http://www.mtdcnc.com/products/cutting-tools Find workholding, vices and more here http://www.mtdcnc.com/products/machine-accessories Find automation for machine tools here http://www.mtdcnc.com/products/automation Find CAD CAM software here http://www.mtdcnc.com/products/cad-cam Our website also has a great news feed, we deliver news to the UK market every hour relating to manufacturing, machine tools, cnc equipment and events. For the latest news click here http://www.mtdcnc.com/news/ For machine tool and tooling user stories http://www.mtdcnc.com/stories/ Check out our event videos, they really are unique. In all our youtube channel and our website are great for engineers and machinists. You can also follow us on twitter here https://twitter.com/MTDCNC And on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/MTDCNC Our LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mtdcnc-com/ AND DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL TO GET MORE OF OUR GREAT ENGINEERING VIDEOS!

16 July 2018

Scotland’s north coast has been chosen as the site of Britain's first spaceport. Vertical rocket and satellite launches are planned from the A’Mhoine peninsula, in Sutherland, which the UK Space Agency says will pave the way for human spaceflights Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Spaceport receives go-ahead on Scottish peninsula ► https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/16/spaceport-receives-go-ahead-on-scottish-peninsula Support the Guardian ► https://theguardian.com/supportus The Guardian ► https://www.theguardian.com The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► www.youtube.com/theguardian Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture Guardian Science and Tech ► http://is.gd/guardiantech

A remote, boggy stretch of land on the north coast of Scotland is likely to become the UK's first spaceport. The A'Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland has been chosen as the most suitable place from which to launch rockets vertically to put satellites in orbit. The UK Space Agency is giving Highlands and Islands Enterprise £2.5m towards the development of the facility. HIE will work closely with a consortium that includes the American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. The goal would be to have launches as early as possible in the 2020s.