The Continentals are threatening to ban the UK from using the military encrypted signals from the EU Galileo satellite constellation.

Richard Wimmer, Project Manager of the Aeolus satellite at Airbus in Stevenage, told the Sunday Telegraph : “Britain is still a very very key player in ESA (European Space Agency) which is a separate organisation to the European Union, so we will still remain a member of ESA, and a very large member, in terms of contribution.