{"id":406019,"date":"2025-09-07T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406019\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:42:11","slug":"rocket-tanks-arrive-in-unst-ahead-of-first-launch-from-saxavord-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/406019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket tanks arrive in Unst ahead of first launch from SaxaVord Spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"attachment-single-entry size-single-entry wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rocket tanks arrive in Unst ahead of first launch from SaxaVord Spaceport\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3906-1024x768.jpeg\" data- data-uk-img=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rocket tanks arrived in Unst on Sunday on their way to SaxaVord Spaceport. Photo: Gordon Thomson<\/p>\n<p>Massive rocket tanks are travelling through Unst today (Sunday) towards SaxaVord Spaceport.<\/p>\n<p>They shipments came by barge from Lerwick to Baltasound pier before making their onward journey by road to Lamba Ness.<\/p>\n<p>They bear the insignia of Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) which is scheduled to carry out the UK\u2019s first ever orbital satellite launch from the spaceport in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>RFA has advised road users the delivery may cause delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocket tanks arrived in Unst on Sunday on their way to SaxaVord Spaceport. Photo: Gordon Thomson Massive rocket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[9094,139918,70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-406019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-rocket-factory-augsburg","9":"tag-saxavord-spaceport","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115164725034648027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}