3 years... try 9 years (at least!) :') me and dan had some arguments on here years and years ago!
in all honesty it sounds like a waste of money but sure why not
So an update.
When I posted this a few months back I wrote "Canada, Australia and New Zealand should be invited should they wish to wean away from the US system." And today I read this from the Financial Times...
http://www.canzukinternational.com/2...-strategy.html
UK Considers “Five-Eyes” Space Defence Strategy
The UK is considering launching a ‘five-eyes’ alternative to the EU’s Galileo satellite project as it announces its first space defence strategy ahead of its departure from the European Union.
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Nice to see Whitehall picking up on my suggestions, again. (sunglasses)Quote:
Originally Posted by CANZUK
seems like a trustworthy and unbiased source
unlike that darn bbc
struggling to even find another source for this
https://www.ft.com/content/bb6bae54-...1-e01af256df68
Not sure if you can read as the FT usually has pay wall.
I cannot
regardless if it is true, it is better news than just doing it ourselves which is completely unrealistic
downside to eu is much greater travel costs and potentially slower progress, also not sure what current infrastructure is like for these kind of projects
upside to eu is much more empty land to play with which could be interesting (also having australia involved could be good given their proximity to the equator, though I think EU stuff is launched from French Guyana anyway)
not being funny but do you have any idea what actually goes into stuff like this
i dont understand how you think that a project which took ~20 years with the resources of many countries can be done at the fraction of the cost, fraction of the time with a fraction of the resources in a country which consistently approves projects which go way over the projected time and money
it would eventually get done but these projections are bogus and probably designed simply to appease people like yourself
There's that defeatism again, a bad case of Suez syndrome.