Re: Galileo blocking BeiDou
Can you highlight the constitutional provisions that would allow the UK government to order the 'independent' governments of these overseas territories to do something like sabotage Galileo?
And then work out exactly what effect losing two sensor stations (which don't actually uplink anything - they downlink data and send it to Germany and Italy).
I am fairly sure that the Chileans or Argentinians would happily host the Falklands Sensor station - and push comes to shove, if the Ascension Island station was 'lost' the gap in the network would be no bigger than already exists in the Pacific - so no reason to think it would have material effect,.