The Brexit/Galileo/OneWeb debacle continues...
Our glorious UK government appears to have abandoned plans to spend £5bn building our own GPS system (into which we'd already invested £450m resuscitating OneWeb, a bankrupt broadband satellite company).
The system was to replace the EU's Galileo GPS system (into which we'd already invested over £1bn) which we foolishly abandoned after the Brexit vote.
The UK Space Agency appears to be lobbying to reverse the stupid Galileo decision. Best of British luck with that.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 23 Sep 2020, 16:07,
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Any truth in the Grayling ferry company having gone bust owing the government £2m?
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Only vaguely...
According to Huffington:
"The company will go bust owing nearly £2m – made up of £1.2m to trade and expense creditors, a £400,000 loan, £323,000 in directors loans and a £100 corporation tax bill to HMRC."
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 23 Sep 2020, 23:04,
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Well,
At least they didn't invest in anything designed by Siemens to help the NHS cut costs for over £10 billion, right?
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2Pints , at the third stroke, it will be, Wed 23 Sep 2020, 23:32,
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This is a level of incompetence higher than getting conned by another IT company promising the moon on a stick.
This is bailing out an America-based broadband satellite company that does not make GPS satellites and whose satellites cannot support a GPS network, in order to replace a dedicated European military grade GPS satellite system that we'd already paid for and didn't need to abandon.
This is GB once again developing a first class space capability at great expense only to walk away from it for no good reason. GB remains the only country to have ever done this.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 24 Sep 2020, 14:38,
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