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image captionThe DETECT project would find breeding pools before they became a serious problem
Space projects are the latest international scientific collaborations to lose funding because of the cut in UK overseas aid.
Ten initiatives that would have used space data to tackle developing-world problems, such as human trafficking and flood vulnerability, have had their support cancelled.
Ministers are dropping the commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on foreign aid.
The result of Covid financial pressure, the move is supposed to be temporary.
But for the affected projects, it has left them scrambling to find alternative financing in an attempt to keep their ideas alive.
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