BT has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by ScottishPower, specialist in wind energy, to strengthen the connectivity throughout their network of windfarms and offices. The partnership will see BT deliver a wide range of robust connectivity solutions to ScottishPower, by securely connecting their hard-to-reach rural green energy sites. The contract, which will provide integrated […]
The SaxaVord spaceport in Scotland is seeking to win ‘Freeport’ status helped by a “strategic partnership” with the North-East Scotland Green Freeport bid. The UK is in the process of establishing Freeports around the country and SaxaVord wants to be a ‘subzone’ of the North-East Scotland Green Freeport (NESGF) should it be successful in its […]
Kinloss, Scotland-based rocket launch services company, Orbex, is hiring 50 new staff in readiness for what it describes as “the company’s final push” for the first vertical rocket launch from UK soil. Many of the new jobs will support integrated testing of the complete rocket at the Orbex LP1 launch platform test facility at Kinloss. […]
Skyrora has successfully completed the static fire test of the second stage of its flagship Skyrora XL orbital rocket. Discover Space UK at Machrihanish Airbase hosted the biggest integrated stage test to be held in the UK since those of Black Arrow and Blue Streak in the 1970s. Achieving this latest milestone moves Skyrora one […]
The Scottish Women’s Premier League (SWPL) has announced a new three-year deal with BBC ALBA and BBC Scotland for live matches and highlights of the league. The new agreement with both stations, which runs until the end of the 2024/25 season, is the biggest with the channels since they began covering the women’s game in […]
WWE Live will return to Glasgow, Scotland on October 30th 2022. Fans attending the WWE Live event at the OVO Hydro Arena will see a host their favourite WWE Superstars in action including proud Scot Drew McIntyre, The Usos, Natalya, Sheamus and many more. A presale for tickets will take place on July 25th at 9am […]
A group of 50 Scottish entrepreneurs under the ‘Space Scotland’ banner will appear at the Farnborough International Airshow (July 18-22) and backed by Highlands & Islands Enterprise together with thirteen companies from Space Scotland who will be sponsoring the trip and crewing the set-up over the five days. Included in the sponsoring firms are all […]
NextUp is bringing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe experience live to their streaming platform for the first time this year. The celebrated arts festival will be beamed straight into people’s living rooms with 50+ shows throughout August. NextUp has partnered with The Gilded Balloon and The Pleasance, and as well as bringing the top comics from […]
Scottish satellite launch operator SaxaVord, which is developing a satellite launch facility at Unst in the Shetland Isles, has received its final planning approvals. The Scottish Government has confirmed that it will not call-in plans for SaxaVord Spaceport’s Launch and Range Control Centre (LRCC) and for a new section of road to improve access to […]
Scotland’s SaxaVord Spaceport has announced a new partnership with Astra Space. Not to be outdone, Spaceport Cornwall at the other end of the UK has enjoyed the British government confirm that it will handle its first satellite launch this summer. Nasdaq-listed Astra, whose mission is to improve life on earth from space, successfully completed its […]