The UK is Europe’s leader in space technologies, in both expertise and manufacture. The furore over the UK’s possible exclusion from the EU’s Galileo GPS satellite project has obscured the fact that it is only one of the projects being developed here, as Nick Peters and Maddy White discovered when they visited Airbus Defence & Space in Portsmouth.
Companies have been developing defence and space products on what is now the Airbus site at Hilsea, on Portsea Island, since the 1950s. Back then, GEC, the UK’s largest company of its kind at the time (with a foothold in a vast array of sectors, including defence and electronics) established a factory on the old…
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