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Last month Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit successfully completed the first full orbital launch of its LauncherOne system from Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The company used a modified Boeing 747-400 aircraft to cruise to 30,000 feet before the rocket was blasted into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deploy 10 CubeSat satellites. And now, as Mr Branson’s “key delivery partner” in the UK, Spaceport Cornwall is set to become Europe’s first horizontal launch site to pro
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The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is set to go online in five years and will feature a Public Regulated Service (PRS) to be used by government agencies, armed forces and emergency services. But the EU decided this crucial feature would not be accessible to the UK after Brexit, despite London playing an imperative part in its development. It is not the first time the UK and EU have squabbled over PRS - and, according to the Associate Director of the Atlantic Council, it almost stopped the UK signing up in the first place.
TONY BLAIR was outfoxed by the European Union after the US warned of concerns over the security features of the Galileo project, according to a foreign policy expert.
BREXIT saw the UK leave the Galileo programme, despite investing £1.2billion into the space probe and supplying, and assembling, 34 key parts for the project.