Proposed Australian spaceport changes name
Proposed Australian spaceports.
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A proposed Australian spaceport company that was previously called Equatorial Launch Australia and was forced to shift its location because of red tape has apparently changed its name to Space Centre Australia and named its proposed spaceport the Atakani Space Centre.
It is also possible there was a major shake-up in management, but this is unclear from available sources.
The map to the right shows the location where Atakani is planned, on Cape York in Queensland. Previously this company hoped to build the spaceport to the west in the Northern Territory, but local bureaucracy made that impossible.
Right now the company hopes to open for launches by 2029.
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The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
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Proposed Australian spaceports.
Click for original image.
A proposed Australian spaceport company that was previously called Equatorial Launch Australia and was forced to shift its location because of red tape has apparently changed its name to Space Centre Australia and named its proposed spaceport the Atakani Space Centre.
It is also possible there was a major shake-up in management, but this is unclear from available sources.
The map to the right shows the location where Atakani is planned, on Cape York in Queensland. Previously this company hoped to build the spaceport to the west in the Northern Territory, but local bureaucracy made that impossible.
Right now the company hopes to open for launches by 2029.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Not a name change! The lost history saddens me.
The world really needs a sarcasm font.
For “Bureaucracy” read “Aborigines”. Australia has ceded control of vast amounts of land to “aborigines” who are basically white grifters. You have to look very carefully to believe they may have some aboriginal ancestry.
This is a remote and isolated site, with a very active monsoon season. Logistics will be difficult and expensive. Massive thunderstorms- one of the local seasons is called “ knock ‘‘em down “ season. And if they think they can avoid local bureaucracy by moving to Cape York, they should think again. Australia has a history of fanciful proposals for spaceports- really only Woomera was functional, and that was the British government needing a big area for testing in the early days. We’ll see.
I wouldn’t do business with Australia or the kiwis with their Green foolishness