A new hotel and visitor centre are planned for the island of Unst in Shetland as part of work to create a spaceport at the northern-most tip of the UK. The team behind SaxaVord spaceport hope to build ...

Legend has it that author Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1869 visit to the Scottish island inspired his classic tale of adventure, Treasure Island. From the northern tip of Unst, Shetland – the UK’s most ...

The test launch of a balloon in Shetland for a system that can deliver small satellites into orbit has been hailed a success. Shetland Space Centre joined forces with B2Space, a Bristol-based firm ...

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The founder and chief executive of SaxaVord Spaceport has died aged 67 after a short battle with cancer. Frank Strang, who founded the UK’s first spaceport on the Lamba Ness peninsula on Unst, ...

A TINY British island with just one pub and one school will soon send rockets into space. Located further north than Moscow, sheep outnumber the 650 locals on the Shetland island of Unst and the ...

Unst is one of the 90 Shetland Islands, 29 of which are inhabited, that lie about 50 miles northeast of Orkney in Scotland. It is the most northerly inhabited island in Britain, and like the rest of ...

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History: Back in 2013 two couples decided to start the The Shetland Distillery Company. Their dream was to open the country's most northerly distillery on the island of Unst in the Shetlands. The ...

The balloon rose to the edge of Earth's atmosphere after its release on Sunday The test launch of a balloon in Shetland for a system that can deliver small satellites into orbit has been hailed a ...

The balloon rose to the edge of Earth's atmosphere after its release on Sunday The test launch of a balloon in Shetland for a system that can deliver small satellites into orbit has been hailed a ...