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Alaskan spaceport to host secretive commercial launch
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| 3/20/2018
| Jeff Foust
Posted on 03/21/2018 5:07:55 PM PDT by Elderberry
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To: Elderberry
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posted on
03/21/2018 5:11:03 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Elderberry
Why launch a rocket from such a northern latitiude? The rocket does not get as much added velocity from the Earth’s rotation as, say, launching from Florida or nearer the equator.
To: Elderberry; cracker45; Tainan; Jet Jaguar; SENTINEL; redpoll; ArmyTeach; Eska; hattend; hosepipe; ..
Alaska Ping.
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posted on
03/21/2018 5:15:18 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
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To: Carl Vehse
Suborbital launch, they may not care. Might be an ABM test? Who knows?
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posted on
03/21/2018 5:21:00 PM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Carl Vehse
That’s what I was wondering. It seems wasteful.
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03/21/2018 5:27:19 PM PDT
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To: Carl Vehse
Why launch a rocket from such a northern latitiude? The rocket does not get as much added velocity from the Earths rotation as, say, launching from Florida or nearer the equator. Being suborbital, and the Notice To Mariners for an area south/southwest of the launch site indicates it is a polar orbit shot and will splash down in the Pacific several hundred miles downrange south/southwest of launch site.
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posted on
03/21/2018 5:34:41 PM PDT
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OldMissileer
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To: Carl Vehse
You launch from where you can get the permits! :-)
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posted on
03/21/2018 5:37:14 PM PDT
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BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: FreedomPoster
According to the
Alaskan Aerospace Corporation webpage, the launch facility "provides access to planetary orbital space for commercial and government interests."
To: Carl Vehse
Why launch a rocket from such a northern latitiude?
Well, I'm not a rocket scientist but my unprofessional guess is that since permits are required for virtually every endeavor in this country, Alaska is likely charging the less.......
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posted on
03/21/2018 5:51:38 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: Hot Tabasco
A cheaper permit cost is offset by more expensive fuel costs and a reduction in payload size for every orbital launch.
The only advantage of a high-latitude launch site is if one has clients who want their satellites put into polar, near polar, or retrograde orbits.
To: Carl Vehse
For highly inclined orbits it is advantageous to launch from high latitudes
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posted on
03/21/2018 6:31:35 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: Elderberry
First launching of the “Household Atomics”?
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posted on
03/21/2018 6:35:04 PM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: FreedomPoster
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posted on
03/21/2018 6:46:54 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Jewbacca
Close to North Korea as well, which is interesting.
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posted on
03/21/2018 7:08:53 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Carl Vehse
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posted on
03/21/2018 7:50:44 PM PDT
by
blueplum
( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: Elderberry
Launching to the south, that would suggest a polar orbit (assuming it achieves orbit).
And yes, it would take more fuel launching that way, you lose 1000 mph, but you can see what's going on at the poles.
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posted on
03/21/2018 9:00:27 PM PDT
by
ZOOKER
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To: Elderberry
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posted on
03/21/2018 9:52:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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To: Elderberry
Small launch platform
The cofounder of the Vector rocket company, James Cantrell, said this week that he is 100 percent confident that his Vector-R vehicle will launch this year. This launch will occur from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, carrying a payload of two PocketQube satellites and an Alba Orbital deployer.
"My confidence level is 100 percent," Cantrell said during a telephone interview with Ars on Thursday. "Not to pick on them, but we don't work on SpaceX schedules. We can't afford to run a business like that. We're not giving you schedules that we know we can't live with."
Vector has completed the first successful flight test of its new micro rocket
The company's two-stage Vector-R launcher (the R stands for "rapid") uses three LP-1 engines to lift the rocket off the pad, and it can deploy a payload with a maximum of 66kg into orbit. A later variant, the Vector-H (heavy), will have the capacity to deploy up to 110kg into space.
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posted on
03/21/2018 10:01:08 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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