UK embarrassment laid bare as US hid details of NUKING first-ever British satellite
An article for BBC Future said it is “clear why” the documents were kept marked as top secret for so long.
While NASA realised almost immediately what had happened to the satellite, the UK was, embarrassingly, kept in the dark.
When British officials pieced together the story, Lord Hailsham, the science minister, was the one to tell Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
His 1962 memo, typed over two pages, relates the saga: “Although badly wounded in his solar paddles he is not quite dead.
“He still utters intermittently – sometimes intelligibly.
“He may still improve sufficiently to tell us something of value, though he can hardly say ‘merrily shall I live now’.”
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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1601502/ariel-1-satellite-nuke-britain-starfish-prime-nasa-spt