Re: Thank God We are Out of the EU ...
More from The Telegraph with this, about the UK's ambitions in space:
"Ministers have big plans for the domestic sector, which currently rakes in around £15bn-a-year for the UK. It has trebled in size since 2000 and holds just over 5pc of the global space economy with around 42,000 people employed.
Within the next decade, politicians hope to double Britain's global market share of the worldwide space industry to 10pc, which would equate to over $60bn a year, according to figures from Morgan Stanley."
"The government is trying to place the UK to be at the global forefront of small satellite launch and space tourism market by developing a series of spaceports throughout the country that will be operational in the early 2020s.
One site that has potential is Cornwall. Next year, the airport will be expanded to a new spaceport capable of supporting so-called horizontal launches, in which a plane flies a rocket up to 35,000 feet above the planet."
"Cornwall's new space port isn't built yet but space companies are already flocking to the area, Thorpe says. It's the same story in the Shetlands, where giants like Lockheed Martin are already lobbying to book in launch slots and bring Britain back into the space race."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...unch-industry/
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