/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12246431
>ESA
tfw even more irrelevant UKSA

>>12145994
pls no bully

>>11984665
pls no bully

>>11924422
pls no bully

>>11863306
I think we left on our own, quite a hissyfit, if our government weren't completely retarded they could have at least sold our stake in it to ESA to cover some of the dev costs

>>11713641
We had the same thing, now we're stuck halfway between some ungodly metric/imperial mix that doesn't make sense half the time

>>11692725
pls no bully

No, our government are brainlets that give any promising space-related projects precisely 0 funding or help at all. The entire UK space agency has a budget of merely £300m ffs

>>11669517
luv me space
luv me smallsats, cor black arrow was noice
ate guvment spendin cutbacks
simple as

>>11666702
I wouldn't bet on Scotland either, despite having lots of smallsat engineers they are also full of nimby MUH HIGHLANDS envirofags, and the UK government are also too retarded to properly invest in any opportunity no matter how hard it slaps them in the face. see Black Arrow

>>11643536
ITAR?

>>11435627
pls no bully

>>11389903
>Black Arrow
>As of 2018, the United Kingdom is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability. All other countries that have developed such a capability have retained it either through their own space programme or, in the case of France, through its involvement in the Ariane programme
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