This Brexit fantasy gets more farcical by the day. Latest statement we'll build and launch our own Satellites if we can't join in with Gallileo.
This from a country that can't fund a health service, has austerity causing disabled people to starve and multiple homeless people dying on the street. As well as terrorising its own citizens with dawn raids from the anti immigration police. Plus a minor issue of being unable to present a coherent requirement to European Brexit negotiations. How much longer do we have to suffer this bunch of jokers pratting about rather than running the country!!!
This Brexit fantasy gets more farcical by the day. Latest statement we'll build and launch our own Satellites if we can't join in with Gallileo.
This from a country that can't fund a health service, has austerity causing disabled people to starve and multiple homeless people dying on the street. As well as terrorising its own citizens with dawn raids from the anti immigration police. Plus a minor issue of being unable to present a coherent requirement to European Brexit negotiations. How much longer do we have to suffer this bunch of jokers pratting about rather than running the country!!!
The orbits have limited capacity too
Not going to be economically viable unless we could sell the facility to somebody else too, though. Given that the US, the EU and Russia already have their own systems it's getting to be a pretty mature market.MEO is not as busy as LEO or GEO and there are still enough slots for the 14-16 satellites required for a (UK) GNSS.
Not going to be economically viable unless we could sell the facility to somebody else too, though. Given that the US, the EU and Russia already have their own systems it's getting to be a pretty mature market.
This of course will be further turned into “the prison camp guards are punishing us” and cue “The Great Escape” fee DVD’s with the DM.AIUI, the only UK locations that house elements of the ground segment are Ascension and Falkland Islands. They house Ground Sensor Station which monitor signals from Galileo birds and report back to the HQ so that if there any discrepancies in position or timing, adjustments can be made. If the UK spits its dummy out and stops the ground stations contributing to managing the constellation's accuracy then ESA will probably negotiate to put one on Tierra del Fuego to replace the Falklands and and one on the Canary Islands as the best replacement for Ascension.
The UK needs Galileo (particularly if it wants to build the next gen of satellites) but Galileo can do without the UK.
The fundamental issue behind all of this i that the Galileo rules clearly state that no non-EU (note, not non-ESA) country can access the higher-accuracy, secure Galileo services. UK will be leaving the EU and the EU does like to do stuff by the book. All parties are responsible: ESA / EU for lack of flexibility and UK for not being too concerned with it. This is not the last thing that UK will have missed - too many issues, not enough staff to look beyond trade and economy.
We have yet to reach peak stupid. These incompetent, unbelievably stupid bastards are not finished yet.I'm hoping for a rollback of the age of stupid. I'm not holding my breath.
I can't understand why people who thought the first referendum was a spectacularly bad idea would be interested in holding a second one. Most voters have not become much more knowledgeable about the complex web of legal, constitutional, trade and assorted regulatory issues that one needs to understand to have an informed opinion. This is what MPs, parliamentary commissions, subgroups etc. are for.It's not clear that a second referendum would reverse the outcome- the polls have not moved since the original vote. I think that is more depressing than the original referendum result itself because it shows that Brexit, like Trump has become a cult.
Indeed. We have to remember that the original referendum was part of a cunning plan too. That went well, didn’t it...I agree a second referendum might deliver the same outcome... their cunning plan to get off the hook might fail.
We have yet to reach peak stupid. These incompetent, unbelievably stupid bastards are not finished yet.
I can't understand why people who thought the first referendum was a spectacularly bad idea would be interested in holding a second one. Most voters have not become much more knowledgeable about the complex web of legal, constitutional, trade and assorted regulatory issues that one needs to understand to have an informed opinion. This is what MPs, parliamentary commissions, subgroups etc. are for.