Re: Democrat illogical hysteria and physics contradictions
x <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:19:40 -0700
| Newsgroups | sci.physics,talk.politics.guns,sac.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.california |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 10/27/25 17:52, Trevor wrote: > x <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As far as this post is concerned. >> >> 1. Space shots often go from west to east. This is to >> take advantage of the Earth's rotation which also goes >> from west to east. Therefore a lot of space launches >> in southern California may go over ... Phoenix and >> Las Vegas. > > Again. No. Rockets are not launched to orbit overland from Vandenberg, > or anywhere else on the west coast. Launching over populated areas is a > big no-no. Ok. Space shots are planned. It seems feasible to me that 'big no-no' means that everyone is aware and actually does this. > Vandenberg is only used for launching to low earth orbit. Most LEO > satellites want to be in an approximately polar orbit, for maximum > coverage of the earth. Launches from Vandenberg are always to the south > or southeast. > > If the trajectory has to be eastward, the launch will be done from > Florida where there is thousands of miles of open ocean in case of major > fubarage.