This was included in the STV article when the £20M was announced;
>The spaceport on the north coast of the Scottish mainland received a reported £14.6m in investment from the public sector over several years, including from the Scottish Government and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
Edit: There’s also this announcement of potentially £30M of public funding in 2018.
Edit2: They also got tens of millions of ESA work – not really an issue if it was a competitive tender but ESA funding of companies undertaking work correlates to ESA budget contributory nations (Geo-returns).So there’s indirect additional funding there as the UK expects ESA funding to go back into UK companies https://www.forres-gazette.co.uk/news/revealed-uk-government-withheld-100m-just-a-month-before-o-425648/
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Considering how windy it can be, I’d have thought Scotland was a poor choice of place to have a rocket launch?
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Guardian figures maybe incorrect too:
This was included in the STV article when the £20M was announced;
>The spaceport on the north coast of the Scottish mainland received a reported £14.6m in investment from the public sector over several years, including from the Scottish Government and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/space-firm-working-in-scotland-gets-20m-government-funding-boost
So the real figure could be in excess of £40m
Edit: There’s also this announcement of potentially £30M of public funding in 2018.
Edit2: They also got tens of millions of ESA work – not really an issue if it was a competitive tender but ESA funding of companies undertaking work correlates to ESA budget contributory nations (Geo-returns).So there’s indirect additional funding there as the UK expects ESA funding to go back into UK companies https://www.forres-gazette.co.uk/news/revealed-uk-government-withheld-100m-just-a-month-before-o-425648/
Considering how windy it can be, I’d have thought Scotland was a poor choice of place to have a rocket launch?