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ESA wasn't founded till 1973, and Ariane 1 doesn't fly until the end of 1979. ELDO is more relevant here, as the Europa rocket was a joint project (of which Br
by gsnedders 8y ago
ESA wasn't founded till 1973, and Ariane 1 doesn't fly until the end of 1979.
ELDO is more relevant here, as the Europa rocket was a joint project (of which Britain was a major part; it was partly based on the Blue Streak ICBM).
- masklinn 8y agoOTOH the UK had left ELDO to focus on Black Arrow (hence the replacement of the old Blue Streak stage by Diamant's, and possibly the move from Woomera to Kourou)
- gsnedders 8y agoIt sort of left in the mid-60s, AFAIK. (Still, by the end, almost a third of the funding for Europa was British.)