To: Elderberry
Why not Ecuador? They get a head start on the ground level...........
3 posted on
02/23/2018 12:19:36 PM PST by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: Red Badger
For what it's worth, why not Hawaii? At least technically it's part of America.
To: Red Badger
Probably infrastructure. You need large airports and good roads.
7 posted on
02/23/2018 12:35:25 PM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
To: Red Badger
You need ocean to the east to drop rocket stages and in case of an accident.
8 posted on
02/23/2018 12:44:38 PM PST by
Campion
(Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
To: Red Badger; Kaslin; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ecuador is a choice, but they’d be launching towards the east over the Ecuador mountains and Brazil - Any prob lems and you’re bombarding IRBM parts on Brazil.
But, that could be a viable jungle landing site too for SpaceX.
Getting the rocket boosters out of the jungle, back to the seacoast (barge to Cape Canaveral or West Coast US? Getting satellites and boosters and upper stages to/from Ecuador at what port? Through Panama Canal takes a bit longer, costs canal fees of several hundred thousands dollars for the ship.
9 posted on
02/23/2018 1:17:55 PM PST by
Robert A Cook PE
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