A portion of the promised science budget in yesterday's Autumn Statement will go on a new British-built satellite constellation, the Minister for Universities and Science said. Artist's impression of a NovaSAR satellite over Earth Artist's impression of a NovaSAR satellite over Earth. Credit: SSTL Chancellor of the …

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Wednesday 30th November 2011 11:58 GMT Anonymous Coward

It is going to be a little bit more expensive

This one cost about 1 billion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAR-Lupe

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1. Thursday 1st December 2011 09:51 GMT David 164
  
  Except the German probably developed the technology by themselves. Britain will most likely borrow (steal) it of the Americans or the Germans, the Chinese are not the only ones to carry out industrial espionage. Cutting costs drastically. Plus us Brits have always done space at a fraction of the cost of other nations achieving the same result.
  
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Wednesday 30th November 2011 12:03 GMT Tim of the Win

Animal Health Laboratory? Is that another ironically named version of Huntingdon Life Sciences then?

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1. Wednesday 30th November 2011 12:38 GMT HeyMickey
  
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  Nah, it's probably to fund some proper biocontainment at Pirbright so they can keep the all the foot & mouth disease from getting out...
  
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Wednesday 30th November 2011 12:30 GMT Anonymous Coward

The remaining money...

...won't GCHQ pony up the rest of the money, given NovaSAR's utility in surveillance activities? Is this not just yet another example of us running something rather less secretly that the US already have?

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