RFA's launch site in detail! PLUS, why are Polar sites better than NASA or SpaceX facilities?
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- More and more companies are taking advantage of facilities up north...away from the equator. Why? PLUS, RFA teaches how to launch a rocket properly!
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I like it that you're giving coverage to European space activities that might otherwise go unnoticed...
The UE is stagnated and decadent
@viarnay Maybe the French, yes.
@@flapdrol France is flooded in taxes and the state apparatus eats more than 50% GDP. They are developing the new Arianne VI but is taking way way too long..
Ariane 6 is made by several European countries
You completely forgot to answer your question, _"PLUS, why are Polar sites better than NASA or SpaceX facilities?"_ And it's pretty obvious why you didn't bother to cover that section of the promissory note that is a title. If you want to launch low inclination orbits, definitely, the equatorial or low latitude sites have a tremendous advantage. So these guys and others launching from high latitudes are saying that they don't need to launch in low inclination orbits, and indeed there are very good reason why some satellites would want to launch into a polar or sun synchronous orbit. That's brilliant!
However, launch sites nearer the equator, which can launch low inclination orbits, ALSO can launch high inclination and Sun synchronous orbits equally as well as high latitude sites. All you have to do is have a path over water pointing north or south. Kennedy Space Center has that. Vandenberg Space Force Base has that. Guyana has that. So the high latitude sites have no advantage in launching high inclination orbits. Not only that, but the remoteness of the high latitude sites means that shipping rockets, fuel, supplies and payloads to those sites will be more expensive and take more time than KSC or Vandenberg or Wallops. In fact, maybe the only advantage Shetland might have over existing sites might be security. Even that would be somewhat doubtful. The best way to hide is in a crowd. If you're the only ship going to Shetland, it's not too difficult to figure out what's happening there.
I hope I'm somehow wrong, but I don't see any advantage here that will help them succeed. In many ways they're pushing a rope. Good fortune to them anyway!
Legitimate question: How long until the spaceport recaptures its building cost and makes enough profit to offset the annual costs of running it. SpaceX is profitable with commercial launches, military contracta, Nasa missions, and starlink. And do you really think this location can compete with spacex pricing?
Thanks for your hard work producing this great content.
Especially your coverage of UK and EU activities. Fascinating stuff. Please keep it coming.
I always loved going out at night in the country and lay there with my dog and cats (who thought it was extra boring) and watch for polar orbiting satellites. Seeing them moving across the night sky was just amazing to me.
I'd like to move to the Shetlands get a job as a janitor or something for the spaceport. That would be a good life, I'm about done with my current situation.
Do it!
Plan it, prepare, and get the fuck out.
Becoming an ex-pat is one of the most rewarding things I've ever done!
Only On The Angry Astronaut? Great INFO!
Love that sign! Aliens will be reported to the space police. 🤣😂🤣😂😄
Check 03:36 you can just read the line below which says 'and transported to Mars'. via Boca Chica perhaps?
RFA using car rated parts reminds me a lot of my dad taking horse antibiotics and being like “same thing” and he had a point…I guess
The difference however is that human and animal medication are literally the same chemicals while parts are not the same
They have been launching satellites into polar orbits, including sun-synchronous, from Vandenberg for about 60 years, but it is crowded these days with so many SpaceX launches that it makes sense for new rockets to fly from other locations.
RFA did quite a bit of testing at Esrange….
Jordan you are a world-class researcher and do brilliant podcasts!
Yay rocket stuff!
Thanks for the update and views of the update and views 🇺🇲🇺🇦
New Zealand is not as far South as many assume. It is located in the same latitudes south as Spain is North so has a milder climate then the U.K. Rocketlab does specialize in different orbital inclinations (niche market) but will also launch their very efficient Neutron which will directly compete with SpaceX. Rocketlab has diversified into orbital technology products as well, and finally, the Electron booster is being used (at Wallops) as a first stage booster for hypersonic missiles. All this diversification should make RocketLab a much more robust business when the backlog of payloads dry up and real competition prevails.
it's good to have a lot of launch sites and interest in space.
But a polar orbit launch can be from anywhere, there are no location/latitude advantages to be had in a polar orbit launch. :)
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15:15 - correction SpaceX had a concrete flame deflector for IFT-1, the foundation of which proved inadequate resulting in unexpected damage. Armchair quarterbacks like AA think they know the only right way to do things.
No homes cities etc to damage if the worst happens.
Less rules? Could also be motorvation
Great info, thanks
Hey Angry, I heard Canada is getting into Space Launch business. Have you done any videos about this?
Spaced Police!! Far Out!
Let’s get locked in!
Just curious. Is this also an offensive mobile missile launch site? I just ask coz it kinda looks like the idea is to put the launch area in a location where nobody will get hurt if the Russians take it out or so.
Good question. No. The military have no involvement with this facility. It is 100% commercial.
Cool
What rocket was launched there from Andoya in the beginning of the video?
At minute 8.5, you mention sun-synchronous orbiting space stations. BIG PROBLEM ... the Earth's magnetic field lines converge at the magnetic poles ... pulling in solar radiation which is displayed by the Aroura's. You hence lose the protection equatorial-orbiting LEO stations enjoy (and even THEY have to have sheltering protocols in the event of major solar eruptions). But in a polar orbiting space station, your radiation exposure skyrockets. That's one of the reasons the AF's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) and NASA's plans for Polar Space Shuttle trajectories launching from Vandenberg SLC-6 both became defunct. Yeah, Challenger blowing up was a convenient excuse for walking away from billions of taxpayer dollars invested in SLC-6, but it was the life-time radiation dose that NASA Shuttle Astronauts didn't want to absorb on a single polar mission that killed SLC-6. Deano in DC
wow! is that Dr. Evil's Lair?🤣
i guess windyness dosen't really matter to launch providers,
You moved to the UK for this?
Looks like something an American builds in his backyard.
maybe the company dosen't want press coverage.
Sue Origin and ULA will sue over danger to the sheep, noise, and climate something. Save the poles (I mean the geographic poles and not the Poles from Poland)./s
I look forward to seeing the sheep’s reaction to the launch.
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