** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **
- Thread starter Cosimo
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Ah yes, indeed.You mean Saturday
Ah yes, indeed.
To be honest in this lockdown, every day seems like Saturday!
60 years & still at the mercy of the weather
Liquid oxygen and lightning don't often make a happy partnership. Lol
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One positive just watched the iss go over my house for the first time with my daughter
Soldato
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I have a solution to that problem but it's gonna cost Elon a few million £'s
You would think with such a high chance of the weather ballsing things up even in spring, they might find somewhere better than Florida for consistent launch windows.
They can't launch from anywhere else for missions like this, it has to be launched eastwards due to the ISS orbit and you don't want to drop rockets on populated areas, unless you're China. And you want a site as near to the equator as possible to take advantage of the free delta v, plus logistics, large open areas of space etc.
Soldato
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Rather the money, can then use it to build my own rocket
seats without seatbelts
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On the plus side, Elon is probably sat on the bog with a pen and paper, working out how to launch regardless of weather and location.