UK's Johnson seeks a minor seat in the space race

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With a plan to launch its own satellites from Scotland by 2022.

Setting out his post-Brexit foreign policy priorities entitled"Global Britain in a competitive age", British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government said space would become an important commercial and military area of competition.

"We will make the UK a meaningful actor in space," Britain said in its 112-page plan for the future. Britain will"develop a commercial launch capability from the UK – launching British satellites from Scotland by 2022." The government said space has proved to be one of the UK’s fastest growing sectors since 2010, trebling in size. It now employs 42,000 people and generates an income of 14.8 billion pounds each year.

 

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