29-06-2020, 02:11 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by Solasch
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But it does prove the importance of being a member of an international organisation. Because altough you are a net payer (£ 374/year) it renders a 100 mln investment in your own country.A bit like being a member of the EU, who by the way foots 23% of esa's annual budget..
You will be interested to know esa started as a german-french initiative.
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_his...space_research
Hi
The ESA is naff all to do with the EU.
Brexit will not affect it in anyway shape or form.
Many other things will be affected, but not the ESA.
We are not leaving Europe, we are leaving the EU.
29-06-2020, 02:25 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiThe ESA is naff all to do with the EU.
Brexit will not affect it in anyway shape or form.
Many other things will be affected, but not the ESA.
We are not leaving Europe, we are leaving the EU.
This is from 2002!
The European Union and ESA: the need for closer working relations
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corpora...king_relations
29-06-2020, 02:28 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by Bread
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And what about all the rest of the investment that comes from it such as employment, corporation tax etc plus the indirect positive impact on transport retail etc etc.
29-06-2020, 02:53 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by Solasch
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Thanks dude. You just listed the advantages of EU membership, even though being a net contributor. So you must secretly think leaving the EU was economically damaging.
I listed the advantages of foreign investment - something that the UK is seeing a lot of and the EU is seeing none of.
29-06-2020, 03:06 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by Bread
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No I didn't.I listed the advantages of foreign investment - something that the UK is seeing a lot of and the EU is seeing none of.
Foreign investment? Oh, of course, you are a third country. Investments from europe are now categorized as foreign investment by you.
29-06-2020, 07:05 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by swimfeeders
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HiThe ESA is naff all to do with the EU.
Brexit will not affect it in anyway shape or form.
Many other things will be affected, but not the ESA.
We are not leaving Europe, we are leaving the EU.
The investment in OneWeb,*first reported on Thursday night, is intended to mitigate the UK’s loss of access to the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation system.
But OneWeb – in which the UK will own a 20% stake following the investment – currently operates a completely different type of satellite network from that typically used to run such navigation systems.
“The fundamental starting point is, yes, we’ve bought the wrong satellites,” said Dr Bleddyn Bowen, a space policy expert at the University of Leicester. “OneWeb is working on basically the same idea as Elon Musk’s Starlink: a mega-constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit, which are used to connect people on the ground to the internet.
What’s happened is that the very talented lobbyists at OneWeb have convinced the government that we can completely redesign some of the satellites to piggyback a navigation payload on it.
OneWeb filed for bankruptcy in March in the US, where most of its operations are located, after failing to secure new funding.
Previously, the UK aimed to build its own global navigation satellite system, which independent experts estimatedwould cost £3bn-£4bn.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...galileo-brexit
29-06-2020, 08:18 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by Bread
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Galileo went missing for nearly 3 weeks and nobody knew where it was. How's that for the EUs out of date GPS satellite 
30-06-2020, 07:35 PM
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Re: Oh No Not Another One ! #4
Originally Posted by Bread
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Galileo went missing for nearly 3 weeks and nobody knew where it was. How's that for the EUs out of date GPS satellite
https://www.over50sforum.com/showthr...hlight=Galileo
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