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To: RightWhale
There would be no advantage in polar launches by using an equatorial site versus an Alaskan site.

Except that a private company trying to conserve capital could be able to launch satellites in any orbit from one site at no additional cost.

31 posted on 10/23/2005 3:58:30 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Can anybody see moving their launch to Alaska for any other reason than to achieve a high latitude orbit in the first place? The fuel cost to launch would be the same since all that equatorial velocity wouldn't be wasted. It would be an automatic tourism selling point: see the whole world from Alaska, not just that soul-stultifying equatorial band.


33 posted on 10/23/2005 4:12:58 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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