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#Brexit perturbarea satelitului pentru a costa 1 miliard de lire sterline pe zi

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Losing the European Galileo GPS system as a result of Brexit is set to cost the UK £1 billion every day due to affected sat navs, mobile apps and aircraft tech, research reveals.

The Spaceport Case File looks at the space sector in the UK, including how the encrypted system was planned to enhance Britain’s critical applications once fully operational in 2026, including military drones, autonomous vehicles and commercial uses.

To date, the UK has invested £1.2bn into Galileo’s development. However, with Brexit pulling the plug on UK defence and safety participation, the UK will lose access to the satellite system and the money - without having a GNSS of its own in place.

This lack of GNSS would have significant impacts on critical UK infrastructure, resulting in vulnerabilities in telecommunication networks, compromised power distribution across the electric grid and access to cash from SWIFT-based ATMs, the government claims

Although it’s impossible to know exactly what the effects of losing a GNSS would be to the UK, broad analysis implies that losing access to Galileo will also negatively impact the emergency services, as it will leave key services vulnerable to hacking.

As it stands, UK police, ambulance and fire services alone cite estimated GVA contributing benefits of £96.5 million due to GNSS, as the system helps to keep maintenance costs down and allows dispatchers to optimize the use of emergency vehicles.

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Snapshot of annual key sector contributing benefits from GNSS

 

Sector

Description of GNSS applications

Estimated GVA benefits £

Estimated utility benefits £

Prognoza Meteo

Radio-occultation, lightning detection and sensor positioning

£ 75m

£ 25m

Offender tracking

Offender tagging and prison place management

£ 30.8m

-

Cellular telecommunications

Radio frequency stability

£ 5m

-

Across all key sectors - including health, communications and government - the loss of access to a global satellite system works out to a staggering £365bn per year, or 17% of the total UK economy (GDP).

As well as losing out on its £1.2bn Galileo investment, the UK is set to invest a further £92m of its Brexit readiness fund into development of an independent satellite system. This will mark a significant expansion of the UK space sector, alongside the three planned spaceports which will begin satellite launches this year from Cornwall.

Despite concerns around space debris and emissions, the spaceports are expected to have significant financial benefits for the UK. All three sites could provide £469m benefit to the UK economy, based on the average return rate of £2-4 for every £1 of investment into earth observation applications.

  • The UK is set to forfeit use of the leading global satellite navigation system, Galileo, after withdrawing from the EU, new research shows.

  • This sustained disruption to sat-nav could cost the UK economy £1 billion per day as a result of compromised critical military and commercial applications.

  • Stay in Cornwall’s Spaceport Case File reveals the economic, environmental, academic, and employment impacts of expanding the UK space sector.

  • The UK has already invested £1.2bn into Galileo, and will now have to spend an additional £92m to develop an independent satellite system.

To read more about the impacts of the spaceport in the Spaceport Case File, click aici.

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