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by toyg 669 days ago
Probably a combination of Trump and Brexit. The Tory governments made a big song and dance of investing to replace the access to European space programs that they lost, I wouldn't be surprised if this project sat in the folds of one of those efforts - even just financially.

On the other hand - this was actually delivered, so maybe not a Tory thing at all... /S