http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The race is on. en Tue, 19 May 2026 21:30:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18990#post-287015 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:50:59 +0000 bill 287015@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A few months ago I heard a public talk about the space industry in Scotland. There's meant to be a relatively large number of places that make small satellites and Dundee University Dundee has got Satellite Receiving Station. </p> <p>As far as I can remember the main benefit of having your own local launch site had to do with insurance (but I may be wrong). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18990#post-287012 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:20:32 +0000 Frenchy 287012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wondered if this would be the most northerly spaceport, if built. I think it would be second, behind <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome">Plesetsk Cosmodrome</a>, which seems to be the most used spaceport in the world. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18990#post-287011 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:18:44 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 287011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), a Scottish government agency, will be given £2.5m from the UK government to develop the spaceport which could be up and running by the early 2020s."</p> <p>NASA and the ESA must be quaking in their boots. HIE can't even run Cairngorm ski area properly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18990#post-287007 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:39:27 +0000 neddie 287007@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The best place to launch rockets (for orbit) is on the equator, to make use of ~1000mph "free" velocity from the Earth's rotation.</p> <p>Launching them at ~59 deg North, with seriously dodgy weather, is a bit of pants idea really. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18990#post-287005 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:50:18 +0000 chdot 287005@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>He told the Scotsman that “the rocket transport would be a boon to the Western Isles.” </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-experiment-to-deliver-letters-by-rocket-in-the-hebrides-1-4563476" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-experiment-to-deliver-letters-by-rocket-in-the-hebrides-1-4563476</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18990#post-287003 Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:26:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 287003@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Will we get <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44839536">space rockets launched from Sutherland</a> before or after the construction of segregated and integrated E/W and N/S cycle routes across Edinburgh?</p> <p>Bet now! </p>