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Post by srfoskey on May 20, 2020 13:53:48 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on May 27, 2020 12:04:51 GMT -5
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Post by srfoskey on May 27, 2020 15:24:17 GMT -5
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Post by Cadeau on May 27, 2020 16:12:19 GMT -5
I don't understand why they had to built the space center in Florida. The state known for the highest risk of lightning in frequency. If you want to find a place closer to the equator to perform efficiently, you’d better lend a rainshadow portion of Hawaii.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on May 27, 2020 16:27:57 GMT -5
I don't understand why they had to built the space center in Florida. The state known for the highest risk of lightning in frequency. If you want to find a place closer to the equator to perform efficiently, you’d better lend a rainshadow portion of Hawaii. Or California or Nevada. Must've been a good reason to build in that shit state.
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Post by srfoskey on May 28, 2020 13:01:24 GMT -5
I don't understand why they had to built the space center in Florida. The state known for the highest risk of lightning in frequency. If you want to find a place closer to the equator to perform efficiently, you’d better lend a rainshadow portion of Hawaii. Or California or Nevada. Must've been a good reason to build in that shit state. It's probably harder logistically to ship everything to Hawaii. And rockets usually launch to the east because that way they already have a boost to their angular momentum from Earth's rotation. If they launch to the east from California or Nevada, they'd be starting out over more populated places, so there'd be more risk to human life if the rocket disintegrates. That being said, Vandenberg AFB in coastal CA is used to launch rockets into polar orbit, as those can be launched to the south, away from land.
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Post by Cadeau on May 28, 2020 17:06:24 GMT -5
It's probably harder logistically to ship everything to Hawaii. And rockets usually launch to the east because that way they already have a boost to their angular momentum from Earth's rotation. If they launch to the east from California or Nevada, they'd be starting out over more populated places, so there'd be more risk to human life if the rocket disintegrates. That being said, Vandenberg AFB in coastal CA is used to launch rockets into polar orbit, as those can be launched to the south, away from land. But France and rest of the EU is sharing in the French Guiana located at the 5th Parallel North across the Atlantic. Compare to that Florida is lacking to find its own merit already. Northwestern coast of the Big Island(Hawaii) must be desirable spot for sure.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jun 2, 2020 16:54:10 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jun 17, 2020 12:23:48 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jul 23, 2020 15:17:48 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Sept 12, 2020 15:21:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2020 17:13:14 GMT -5
I don't understand why they had to built the space center in Florida. The state known for the highest risk of lightning in frequency. If you want to find a place closer to the equator to perform efficiently, you’d better lend a rainshadow portion of Hawaii. Furthest south place that has an ocean directly east, and is also well connected. Hawaii passes 2 of those criteria, but it isn't well connected. The best located launch site on Earth is Kourou, French Guiana.
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Post by Ariete on Sept 12, 2020 17:33:29 GMT -5
Furthest south place that has an ocean directly east, and is also well connected. Hawaii passes 2 of those criteria, but it isn't well connected. The best located launch site on Earth is Kourou, French Guiana.
Kourou is also well isolated, so security is rather easy (done by the Foreign Legion), and the surrounding land is almost worthless.
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Post by Moron on Sept 14, 2020 10:15:57 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Sept 14, 2020 10:42:58 GMT -5
Venus is still volcanically active so my guess is that is producing the phosphine in some way. Saw a really cool presentation on its volcanic activity years ago in uni.
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Post by Ariete on Sept 17, 2020 10:35:05 GMT -5
109th Ariane 5 launch from Kourou, in August.
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Post by srfoskey on Dec 19, 2020 22:53:51 GMT -5
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Post by snj90 on Dec 21, 2020 9:23:01 GMT -5
Today is the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn!
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Post by srfoskey on Dec 21, 2020 18:47:14 GMT -5
Today is the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn! I saw it, and it was pretty cool. Sadly I didn't have a telescope or binoculars at my dad's house, and I didn't think to bring my binoculars from Oklahoma.
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Post by snj90 on Dec 21, 2020 18:49:14 GMT -5
Today is the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn! I saw it, and it was pretty cool. Sadly I didn't have a telescope or binoculars at my dad's house, and I didn't think to bring my binoculars from Oklahoma. Nice. Too cloudy here to see.
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