Roundup As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has gone a bit wacky – not only does it have fresh space plans, but it also wants to strap laser zappers to stuff too. At the Royal Air Force’s Air and Space Power Conference held earlier this week, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt declared the ministry is putting £30m into the development of a British small satellite demonstrator, which it hopes to launch “within a year”.

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