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Re:Virgin Orbit to launch first orbital spaceflight from UK ... by darreninthenet on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:51PM (#34314324)
We're the only nation to develop a space launch capability and then abandon it
Re:Virgin Orbit to launch first orbital spaceflight from UK ... by rsynnott on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:28PM (#34317270)
France, 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).