Posted on 11/11/2025 11:14:21 AM PST by SmokingJoe
54 years since the UK last launched a satellite from British soil—now a House of Lords report demands we "urgently distance" from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which carries half our satellites. Is this dependence a crisis—or a golden opportunity? We unpack the £1.2B plan, Shetland’s new spaceport, Brexit’s space fallout, and why sovereignty matters without ditching the world’s best rockets. Time to launch from Britain again?
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The UK will determine that the only Halal rockets are the ones aimed at Israel.
No problem, the UK can turn to China to launch satellites. The Chinese are hard at work building SpaceX clone rockets. Unfortunately, the Chinese versions tend to blow up or strand astronauts in space.
They’ll be banning kites and make dancing boys legal soon.
The UK can’t even build a good warship now and they were the masters of it for years.
They spend so much money on woke crap and illegals that they have none to develop and build their own rockets.
The La-bore party under Harold Wilson basically gave the Blue Streak rocket to the French back in the mid-60s.
Was first stage of Europa rocket which formed basis for development of Ariane.
They can whine all they want. Stupid Commies threw it all away so they could waste more pounds on welfare for drunks.
Rocket Lab stock will rise. Its aimed at being a sort of global competitor to space x. Neutron rocket was supposed to be a falcon 9 competitor, it still hasn’t launched yet.
I bet these members have stock in that company though.
Paki’s are an incompetent race.
Packi’s rule the UK
The UK no longer is
QED
The reality is, Space X doesn’t really have any competition.
The pretenders pretend, but don’t come close to measuring up to the Spaceport, Texas company
Agreed. I have said many times now, that the UK should be treated as an enemy nation.
Grok:
For small satellites (Electron vs. Falcon 9 rideshare): No, Rocket Lab is not currently competitive on pure cost. Electron’s $25,000+/kg far exceeds SpaceX’s $5,000–$6,500/kg rideshare pricing. However, Electron wins on non-cost factors: dedicated launches allow precise orbit insertion and faster timelines (e.g., weeks vs. months for rideshares), which is critical for time-sensitive missions like Earth observation. Customers often pay the premium for reliability and control—Rocket Lab completed 8 launches in 2023 vs. SpaceX’s 138 total (mostly Starlink).
UK is spending millions of Euros housing Illegals in hotels so they can rape the countryside girls.
They spend Sterling.
“Why don’t the British develop and launch their own rockets if they are so scared of Musk?”
apparently they tried and failed ... keep in mind that this is a failing country that couldn’t afford to build a nuclear aircraft carrier because it was too expensive ...
besides, they could always switch their rocket dependence from SpaceX to dependence on the Soviets if it would make them feel better about themselves ...
Just so you know.
Anyone to the right of Chairman Moa, is far right.
Speaking of when the British used to build ships.
From 1962 and worth watching.
https://youtu.be/dWgVqbbrXfg?si=DHaAqm_LuDcvcYdq
Grok....Owned by Elon Musk
I don’t disagree that Rocket Lab is as yet a competitor for the kind of lift that Falcon 9 represents.
Doesn’t mean they wont have a rocket in a year or two that does the same job. As yet Space x has absolutely no competition for Superheavy, or Starship.
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