Will we get space rockets launched from Sutherland before or after the construction of segregated and integrated E/W and N/S cycle routes across Edinburgh?
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Posted 6 years ago #
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He told the Scotsman that “the rocket transport would be a boon to the Western Isles.”
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https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-experiment-to-deliver-letters-by-rocket-in-the-hebrides-1-4563476
Posted 6 years ago # -
The best place to launch rockets (for orbit) is on the equator, to make use of ~1000mph "free" velocity from the Earth's rotation.
Launching them at ~59 deg North, with seriously dodgy weather, is a bit of pants idea really.
Posted 6 years ago # -
"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."
NASA and the ESA must be quaking in their boots. HIE can't even run Cairngorm ski area properly.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I wondered if this would be the most northerly spaceport, if built. I think it would be second, behind Plesetsk Cosmodrome, which seems to be the most used spaceport in the world.
Posted 6 years ago # -
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.
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).
Posted 6 years ago #
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