Brexit the economy and house prices part 6

Enterprise_1701C

Everybody talking about our making our own GPS satellite and saying it will be useless, if you lived in the area I live in you would realise we have a thriving aerospace industry. We will soon have our own spaceports.

We had a part in the 1997 Cassini-Huygens project, we had a very important part in the early development of Gallileo (and we should claim our money back from that), and what they will do when they want the software changing I do not know,.


"By 2013 Esa launched Gaia – one of its ‘cornerstone’ missions, meaning world-class scientific projects that require major advances in technology.
The Gaia space observatory aims to image a billion Milky Way objects like stars, planets and quasars in detailed 3D. It was initiated as two other cornerstone missions drew to a close – the Herschel and Planck observatories mapping infra-red and cosmic microwave background radiation, respectively. Britain had been a key partner in all three missions, supplying expertise and leadership as well as instruments and designs. Gaia’s camera sensor, the largest in the world, was built in Chelmsford."

We were also massively involved in Rosetta and Philae.

This is just a few of the things we have had a hand in.

The UK space sector is a very fast growing part of the economy generating a turnover of £12bn a year.

If the eu want to cut their nose off to spite their face and block us from Gallileo then we can't stop them, but we can refuse to give the assistance they are bound to need. The software is British, without it the satellites cannot operate. I just hope the writers put a back door in

cogito

buglawton wrote: »

Tsk Cogito, you're too easy to bait. Britain is if nothing else a country that welcomes free speech, in that respect Herz hasn't overstepped the mark.

Oh, I think I know when someone's trying to bait me and this wasn't one of those times.

cogito

Theophile wrote: »

Says the chap who never fails to make disparaging comments about the EU while living in Greece.

The EU isn't a country and is fair game for criticism.

cogito

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Everybody talking about our making our own GPS satellite and saying it will be useless, if you lived in the area I live in you would realise we have a thriving aerospace industry. We will soon have our own spaceports.

We had a part in the 1997 Cassini-Huygens project, we had a very important part in the early development of Gallileo (and we should claim our money back from that), and what they will do when they want the software changing I do not know,.


"By 2013 Esa launched Gaia – one of its ‘cornerstone’ missions, meaning world-class scientific projects that require major advances in technology.
The Gaia space observatory aims to image a billion Milky Way objects like stars, planets and quasars in detailed 3D. It was initiated as two other cornerstone missions drew to a close – the Herschel and Planck observatories mapping infra-red and cosmic microwave background radiation, respectively. Britain had been a key partner in all three missions, supplying expertise and leadership as well as instruments and designs. Gaia’s camera sensor, the largest in the world, was built in Chelmsford."

We were also massively involved in Rosetta and Philae.

This is just a few of the things we have had a hand in.

The UK space sector is a very fast growing part of the economy generating a turnover of £12bn a year.

If the eu want to cut their nose off to spite their face and block us from Gallileo then we can't stop them, but we can refuse to give the assistance they are bound to need. The software is British, without it the satellites cannot operate. I just hope the writers put a back door in

A kill switch would be very useful.

Theophile

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

We had a part in the 1997 Cassini-Huygens project,



we had a very important part in the early development of Gallileo


"By 2013 Esa launched Gaia –

We were also massively involved in Rosetta and Philae.

This is just a few of the things we have had a hand in.

All ESA projects, which is funded by the EU and its member states.
So we have (had) a thriving space industry thanks to our participation in ESA projects? Cool. Thanks for the heads up.

cogito

Theophile wrote: »

All ESA projects, which is funded by the EU and its member states.
So we have (had) a thriving space industry thanks to our participation in ESA projects? Cool. Thanks for the heads up.

No. We have a thriving space industry thanks to our excellent scientists.

Zero_Gravitas

cogito wrote: »

No. We have a thriving space industry thanks to our excellent scientists.

The majority of whom would much rather remain in the EU.

kabayiri

I watched an interesting interview with a Polish MEP last week. She sits on the EU Brexit committee; worth hearing.

She really didn't give much truck to the idea of an extension to A50. It would need agreement from the EU27, which would prove difficult.

I think it might come down to May's deal or the default exit.

The government need to prepare for both possibilities.

Herzlos

cogito wrote: »

As I understand it, you are a non UK national living and working in this country as a guest, you should realise that it is impolite to make disparaging comments about your host.

You don't know that a system made in the UK won,t work and you may have forgotten that a couple of Galileo satellites don,t work either.

But if you care to tell us which perfect country you come from, I will be happy to point out a few areas where it is not perfect.

I'm just basing it on every other large government technology project. Almost always years late, double the budget and never quite solving the problem it was intended to. Mucking up IT projects is what you guys do best

kabayiri

Herzlos wrote: »

I'm just basing it on every other large government technology project. Almost always years late, double the budget and never quite solving the problem it was intended to. Mucking up IT projects is what you guys do best

I personally think micro satellites are the future. Not just cost, but less prone to attack.

I have no doubt that the next major global conflict will spill out into attacking the opponents' satellites.