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SaxaVord Spaceport, at the tip of the Lamba Ness peninsula in Unst, Shetland, describes itself as "the UK’s first fully-licensed vertical launch spaceport." It says: "Our purpose is to support the launch of small satellites into polar and sun-synchronous orbits."
SaxaVord Spaceport, at the tip of the Lamba Ness peninsula in Unst, Shetland, describes itself as "the UK’s first fully-licensed vertical launch spaceport." It says: "Our purpose is to support the launch of small satellites into polar and sun-synchronous orbits."
Not scored The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
This company is not in the Space Score roster. Only company profiles with an active or pre-revenue status are scored.
Inputs measured 2026-11-03 (UTC) · methodology v8 · Who is scored, and why
Sources: Founded, Headquarters, Ownership, Parent, Legal name
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No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
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Compiled Nov 4, 2026 from 1 public record. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Latest sourced round
UK Government investment: £30.0M (about $40.0M)
Led by UK Government. Dollar figure converted at 1.33169 GBP/USD (ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates) on Oct 29, 2026
Source: Shetland News
Announced Oct 29, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
2 rounds, $79.9M disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
UK Government
Led UK Government investment (Oct 29, 2026)
Shetland News, Oct 29, 2026
Wild Ventures
Led Match funding commitment (majority owner Wild Ventures) (Oct 29, 2026)
Shetland News, Oct 29, 2026
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, November 4). SaxaVord Spaceport: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/saxavord
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "SaxaVord Spaceport: Company dossier." Data as of November 4, 2026. Accessed November 4, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/saxavord.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_saxavordspaceport_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{SaxaVord Spaceport}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/saxavord}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/saxavord},
urldate = {2026-11-04},
note = {Data as of 2026-11-04; each fact links its primary source}
}