Compared with the amount of interest Launch Aid has generated over the years, disproportionately little factual data has informed public policy debate. Information entering the public domain has arrived in piecemeal fashion, resulting in considerable disparities between sources. While Launch Aid...

Launch Aid has crucially facilitated civil aerospace product development efforts in the UK. Currently Launch Aid figures centrally in the charged international dispute over civil aerospace subsidies, in which it has been characterized variously as an instrument of infant industry policy,...