Protesters have targeted Britain’s first satellite launch to complain about the cost of living crisis.
Next month a Virgin Boeing 747, known as Cosmic Girl, is due to take off and dispatch a rocket that will put nine satellites high above Earth. The plane arrived in Cornwall this month. The project has been partly financed with £10 million of taxpayers’ money.
Kate Hudson, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s general secretary, said space was the “new frontier for military escalation” with “no real public scrutiny or accountability”. She added: “Billions are being spent on this new arms race which could instead be invested in helping to solve the current cost of living crisis.”
The rocket, LauncherOne, will go out over the Atlantic to launch the satellites,
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