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The lure of commercial riches in space is spurring a variety of plans to help launch all the components necessary for a fully functioning orbital economy.
The latest to enter this private-sector race is the U.K., which announced Monday that it plans to construct the nation's first commercial vertical launch spaceport in northern Scotland. Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded $31 million for two U.K. projects: Establishing vertical launch operations in Sutherland and a development program slated for Reading to deploy a new "delivery vehicle" to deploy as many as six small satellites.
Is it the second coming of the Space Race?
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(Score: 2, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday July 17 2018, @10:53PM (3 children)
Nigel worked very hard to make Brexit happen. Terrible Prime Minister Theresa May wrecked it. Boris Johnson, I think that guy would make a great Prime Minister. Theresa is MUCH TOO SOFT on the European Union -- big foe of ours. And that will definitely affect trade with the United States, unfortunately in a negative way. We have enough difficulty with the European Union. We are cracking down right now on the European Union because they have not treated the United States fairly on trading. I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn’t agree, she didn’t listen to me. She wanted to go a different route. I would actually say that she probably went the opposite way. And that is fine. But if they do that I would say that that would probably end a major trade relationship with the United States. She should negotiate the best way she knows how. But it is too bad what is going on.
Look what happened with the Galileo. With the Europe GPS. Britain paid a TREMENDOUS amount for that. Paid our enemy, the EU. But they're not getting the use of it. They're not getting the contracts to build it. And they're not getting their money back. Terrible negotiating on that one. Very weak. Theresa needs GPS for her military. For her missiles, planes, ships, tanks, her great and very brave soldiers. Maybe she can use my GPS. But that one's not free. It wasn't free for our great American taxpayers. And it won't be free for Britain. You need to pay your share. And I'll think about, is this really smart? And when I see her getting VERY COZY with our foe the European Union, that makes me think it's not so smart. Theresa needs to decide which side she's on. And Russia has their own GPS. They were trying very hard to be friends with Britain. Until Theresa sent their diplomats back. Because "oh, Novichok!" So I think she burned her bridges there, folks.
And now, possibly she wants to build her own GPS. And we had a story about that a little while ago. She's building a launch pad. She's building rockets. Good for her. Lockheed Martin, great American company, tremendous choice for that. They'll make it PERFECTO. As they always do. But she could have done better. By doing TOUGH NEGOTIATION!!!
(Score: 4, Informative) by turgid on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:58AM (2 children)
Another piece in the whole alt-wrong/far-wrong puzzle [theguardian.com] is revealed. Brexit must be cancelled now, surely?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @07:15PM (1 child)
I think Brexit is a huge mistake, too... but let's be fair here. It appears they are saying that two groups which were openly campaigning to leave the EU were working together, and that one of the campaign exceeded spending limits by about 7% (spending about £7,500,000, rather than the £7,000,000 limit).
Both of these are bad, and should be punished, but I personally think they are relatively modest infractions. Admittedly that is a personal judgement call, but I view this as being substantially less worrisome than a foreign government or criminal organization laundering money or hacking infrastructure to affect the vote.
Irrespective of everything else, though... (I am not a lawyer, but my interpretation is that) technically the vote was non-binding and thus not directly related to act of the UK invoking Article 50. Therefore, the invocation was constitutional, even if it had been done under misinformation and even if the referendum had been unconstitutional. Therefore, this is not a loophole to un-invoke Brexit through legalistic machinations.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:08PM
Correct. But you must surely appreciate that it is running out of legs upon which to stand.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].