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Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough
Brit industry, military locked out
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From the department of "You only just realised this?" come reports that the UK government has been somewhat taken aback that the EU plans to exclude Britain from the Galileo satellite programme due to Brexit.
 
Robert said:
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, off you go: Snout of UK space forcibly removed from EU satellite trough
Brit industry, military locked out
galileo_satellite_teaser.jpg

From the department of "You only just realised this?" come reports that the UK government has been somewhat taken aback that the EU plans to exclude Britain from the Galileo satellite programme due to Brexit.
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Creating another satellite navigation network when most people have no problems with the current GPS system? UK should consider themselves lucky they will be excluded from this money pit.

Remember Iridium satellite phones?
 
Astro-boffins find new type of super-fast supernova
Kepler data thought to be glitchy reveals two-week wonder
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NASA image: star ejects a sphere of gas, and explodes, lighting up the gas
When a star goes supernova, it gets very, very bright, very, very quickly, then spends a good few months fading away. But boffins have now reported that an object named KSN 2015K faded away in just a fortnight.
 
Robert said:
Perhaps but not simply because of £39bn; spread that around the remaining nations and it won't go very far.
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So you are saying the UK took that much to be part of the EU Space Agency? Or is it fuzzy math based on non space related funding?
 
redrumloa said:
So you are saying the UK took that much to be part of the EU Space Agency? Or is it fuzzy math based on non space related funding?
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Big picture - any funding the UK may or may not get back from EU space ventures will be swallowed up without touching the sides by the overall balance, which current estimates put at scores of billions.
 
Robert said:
Big picture - any funding the UK may or may not get back from EU space ventures will be swallowed up without touching the sides by the overall balance, which current estimates put at scores of billions.
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Does that math include military funding?
 
redrumloa said:
Does that math include military funding?
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Not sure what relevance that has to space but I'd imagine all payments to and from the EU would have been on the table at the negotiations, including any military funding.
If you're really interested in the finer details of the EU exit agreement, I imagine there will be some sort of breakdown somewhere on the internet.
 
NASA stalls $8bn James Webb Space Telescope again – this time to 2020
Someone call Scotty – he'd know how to fix this thing
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Delayed ... The James Webb Space Telescope

The launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope has been kicked back a year to 2020, NASA confirmed during a press conference on Tuesday.

The instrument – a 6,200kg (13,668lb) telescope designed to look at stars formed soon after the Big Bang as well as closer objects – was scheduled to launch into the heavens in October this year. Technical problems pushed that back to May 2019. Now NASA says that will slip to May 2020 at the earliest, and indicated that the $8bn plowed into the project may not be enough to complete it.
 
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