SpaceX is planning its own spaceport about three miles north of Mexico at the southern tip of Texas.
SpaceX is planning its own spaceport about three miles north of Mexico at the southern tip of Texas.
SpaceX had been looking at sites at various potential sites, including ones in Florida, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Company officials have said they plan to operate out of Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base as well. A third, commercial launch site frees them from range restrictions that exist at the other two locations.
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SpaceX is planning its own spaceport about three miles north of Mexico at the southern tip of Texas.
SpaceX had been looking at sites at various potential sites, including ones in Florida, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Company officials have said they plan to operate out of Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base as well. A third, commercial launch site frees them from range restrictions that exist at the other two locations.
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 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
This makes their claims about high flight rate more likely.
what of the increased costs of transporting the components to these other sites, along with staffing for assembly and an actual launch.
this stinks of Fairy Tail engineering. something that i have stated for more than several months.
i hate redundancy , but this would be the 4rth time i spoke out about the current engineering angles to wrangle tax dollars towards a common goal of the “what they really want” in regards to providing mere pictures and artist renderings to satisfy the hunger for money. these birds will never Fly. the SLS or whatever they call it is Pure Fiction. if you follow reports from Space-X or Boeing , or Lockheed Martin no one is actually doing Anything for the last 10years. what a joke to the American Public.
this article is another Sucker punch to the tax payers. the Logistics alone would nearly triple launch costs. people are being Hood-winked .
I wonder if a Range Safety Analysis will be a part of the FAA’s Environmental Impact Statement.
The Shrimp Fleets and Oil Rigs should love this.
What does a new launch site have to do with the tax payers? I thought SpaceX wanted a launch site that wasn’t under the thumb of the government.
It will be interesting to see if the added infrastructure adds to costs but it seems this has been in the works for some time and should already be part of tbeir long term projections.
IIRC SpaceX described the launch sites like this;
Florida for NASA
California for the military
X for commercial