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A significant milestone in the UK's biggest space project is reached on Friday with the launch of the third and final Skynet 5 satellite.
The military communications platform will be lofted by an Ariane rocket from Europe's equatorial spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana.
It will provide British forces with the secure, high-bandwidth capability they now need to run their operations.
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The new system will allow British forces to make use of next-generation weapons systems, such as the recently introduced Reaper drones.
These unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are deployed over Afghanistan but are remotely piloted by RAF personnel in the US.
This is made possible only by Skynet's ability to handle the drones' real-time video feeds
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7419751.stm
Far less exciting then the thread title implies unfortunately.
Whoever makes up names for MoD weapons needs to spend less time watching Sci-Fi films.
