Machrihanish’s first space company may not use the whole runway for launches but it plans to place satellites in orbit.
Earlier this year it seemed like a site in Sutherland had beaten Machrihanish in the race for space, but TAO Technologies UK Ltd had begun exploratory talks with the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company last December.
In September, reporter Hannah O’Hanlon, who works for our sister title the Campbeltown Courier, tried to unearth the story but, due to commercial sensitivity, MACC would not be drawn on the plans.