alt Hacker NewsUK - the only country to achieve to-orbit capability only to shelve it after the first flight.
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rsynnott • last Saturday at 2:47 PM
France essentially did that too, in favour of the ESA (I think the French launcher may have had a couple launches, but certainly no more than ten).
As an ESA member state, the UK has had launch capabilities via Arianespace for a couple of decades.