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The news that a remote stretch of land on the north coast of Scotland is set to become the UK’s first spaceport is a boost to Scotland’s flourishing space industry.
The A’Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland has been chosen as the most suitable spot from which to launch rockets vertically to put satellites in orbit.
The UK Space Agency is giving Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) £2.5 million towards the development of the facility.
HIE will work closely with a consortium that includes the American aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and the goal now is to have launches as early as possible in the 2020s.
The site will have two launch pads, one of which will be devoted to 17-metre tall rockets that are set go into production at a new factory in Scotland.
The arrival of rocket technology is the next step in turning Scotland into one of the world’s centres of space excellence. Glasgow already builds more satellites than any other city in Europe and the opening of a launch facility is likely to attract established players and new start-ups to relocate here.
This is all great news if you happen work in satellite or rocket sales because your opportunity for career advancement is growing rapidly, in part due to the production of the micro and nano satellites now making access to space possible for a new generation of industries.
So who would your customers be if you took your engineering, computing or science qualifications and turned to s1jobs to help you put them to work in the world of sales?
Well communication companies for a start . . . but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Nowadays farmers use satellite technology to guide tractors, monitor the progress of crops and track the spread of drought and disease.
And all kinds of people, from town planners to fishing fleets, now rely on images of the earth from space in order to make accurate decisions about everything from the contours of flood planes to the movement of fish shoals beneath the waves.
Small satellites are perfect for this kind of surveillance as they operate in polar orbits, circling the Earth a few hundred kilometres up, passing over the Arctic and the Antarctic.
And that’s why the north of Scotland is the ideal place to launch them. The rockets can fly north with no danger of them falling onto populated land in the event of something going wrong.
The countdown has begun so why not set your sights on joining the space race with a stellar career in Sales from s1jobs?