Re: Fgs
That's an amazingly big IF! A credible plan from the UK government?
True, although I'd hope that industry with a financial stake in the game would provide direction.
They have demonstrated time and time again they are incapable of a credible plan for going to buy a Mars bar at the Spar on the corner.
Their usual plan for that is "send someone to do it, we'll pay". Works for me.
And with new technology? That would be the wheel, I assume?
Galileo was designed over 10 years ago, and is already many years late. A lot has moved on in space technology since then, as the boys in Surrey can tell you. Add that to launches via Space-X instead of Ariane and you have plenty of scope for new and cheaper technology. Stop being so glass-half-empty!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
