BLUE STREAK SALVAGE
Impatience In Europe
(N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) LONDON. March 28.
Britain’s three - year struggle to salvage the scrapped military Blue Streak rocket as a European satellite launcher might be sabotaged by France before it gets off the launching pad, the “Daily Sketch” reported. The newspaper said this v as “political dynamite when set against the background of Britain's failure to enter the Common Market.’’ Continental aviation and electronics firms were exasperated at the slow progress on the plan. They were seeking French rockets to put experimental satellites into orbit. The new challenge reflected growing concern over the Blue Streak’s future, the “Daily Sketch” said. So far one country—Australia—had ratified the European “co-op" agreement based on the Blue Streak. Britain was not expected to do so until later this year. In the meantime, 110 firms in Europe, representing nine countries, had drawn up their own scheme for the commercial development of space. “They want the golden dividends without delay,” the “Daily Sketch” said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30095, 1 April 1963, Page 12
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