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Re:Spaceport Cornwall awarded licence to host UK’s first spa... by pjc50 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:17AM (#33636984)
The UK cancelled its Black Arrow rocket programme at exactly the worst possible time: after all the money had been spent, but before any benefits were realised. The rocket that was launched only happened because those responsible decided to ignore the cancellation and do the launch anyway.

Common problem in UK big project funding.

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Re:Spaceport Cornwall awarded licence to host UK’s first spa... by matkoniecz on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:27AM (#33637057)
> rocket that was launched only happened because those responsible decided to ignore the cancellation and do the launch anyway.

From what I remember they convinced treasury that launching rocket and satellite is the cheapest form of disposing it

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Re:Spaceport Cornwall awarded licence to host UK’s first spa... by londons_explore on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:32AM (#33638008)
Which is clearly rubbish - plenty of people would have bought a rocket for a dollar...

And besides, the fuel could be resold, and all the metals would have had scrap value.

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