Re: German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry
And of course, we scrapped it about a decade before people started giving serious thoughts to the commercial prospects of spaceflight - something ESA and the Ariane series were all too quick to adopt. At the time, space was just seen as a cost rather than an economic driver.
Black Arrow was almost the smallest rocket to carry a useful payload to orbit, so I wonder what a follow-on to Black Arrow would have looked like and whether the UK would have carried on with HTP - which although terrifying stuff, is much less horrifying than dealing with hypergolic fuels or the technical nightmares of cryogenic rocketry.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
