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Note that the UK has launched an orbital spaceflight before, but from Australia.
by jjk166 4y ago
Note that the UK has launched an orbital spaceflight before, but from Australia.
- darreninthenet 4y agoWe're the only nation to develop a space launch capability and then abandon it
- rsynnott 4y agoFrance, also. You could maybe argue that the ESA rockets are more successors to the French programme than the British, but that's pretty tenuous; they were direct successors to neither. (There was an attempt at the slightly ridiculous Europa rocket, which used stages from the French and British programmes, plus a German stage, but it never really worked properly).