UK Could Use Overseas Territories for Space Launches, Experts Say

Ascension Island, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, a part of the British Overseas Territories. NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen

The UK can use its overseas territories to get ahead in the space race, according to experts, as it prepares to launch spacecraft from home soil for the first time.

Some of the British overseas territories are “positioned in incredibly strategic spots,” Robert Clark, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society think tank, told The Epoch Times on March 16.