The Day Bob Showaddiwaddi got it right...

[Churchill]

There's loads of British satellites.

Just no British launch vehicles.

Hmmm, Skynet, anyone?

[Moscow Mule]

Wrong - they've done it successfully for many years now.
Good luck to them they're giving it a bloody good go.
Meanwhile we decline into a nation of indebted bull-tulipters.

Indian satellite failures is not a googlewhack...

[darmstadt]

British satellites so you can buy more Kleenex

[sasguru]

Quite.

It does raise the question of aid to India though.

Its just so they remember us when the boot is on the other foot.
Plus we did change the region from one of the richest in the world to one of the poorest when we left

"An estimate by Angus Maddison, formerly of Groningen University, reveals that India's share of the world income went from 24.4% in 1700, comparable to Europe's share of 23.3%, to a low of 3.8% in 1952"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_India

[sasguru]

Since Bob has had a hand in this, I expect some major element to have been overlooked. Therefore:

..

Wrong - they've done it successfully for many years now.
Good luck to them they're giving it a bloody good go.
Meanwhile we decline into a nation of indebted bull-tulipters.

[TimberWolf]

Yes.

That is really rather telling, isn't it?

Yeah, same with aircraft technology, etc, and we're still at it today with giving away IT.

[Joe Bloque]

Atleast Bobs trying it. We've outsouced to americans in 70's for cost reasons. If you aint doing it, you aint good in it.

[TimberWolf]

Nonsense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow

Cancelled by Grocer Heath in his heyday, brief though it might have been.

Prospero is still up there.

Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow.

Owned

As of 2009, the United Kingdom is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability.

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8270637.stm

Meanwhile we help the poor.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7198546.stm

Only fair.

[bogeyman]

Cheapest satellite launch of all time, apparently.

What did they launch? The 'Prospero' you referred to? What was it?

[Moscow Mule]

The Day Bob Showaddiwaddi got it right...

Bad news day for fish

Since Bob has had a hand in this, I expect some major element to have been overlooked. Therefore:

Good news day for fish...

[bogeyman]

Nonsense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow

Cancelled by Grocer Heath in his heyday, brief though it might have been.

Prospero is still up there.

Black Arrow

But they painted it white and red - FAIL

Anyway. That was when we were a proper World Power.

[bogeyman]

Good on 'em.

More than the UK has ever done.

[TimberWolf]

"...help forecast the weather and identify potential fishing zones. "

Bad news day for fish

[zeitghost]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8270637.stm