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Re:SpaceX Plans Facility Expansion at Kennedy Space Center by walrus01 on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:35PM (#17270605)
Unless you're the NRO/DoD and want to launch some really, really high power synthetic aperture radar satellites into low altitude polar orbits, with massive photovoltaic arrays to power the radar (or nuclear reactors, as the Soviets did)
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Re:SpaceX Plans Facility Expansion at Kennedy Space Center by JshWright on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:54PM (#17270676)
Yeah, maybe, but you can fly those payloads out of CCAFS too. I don't think there will be enough demand for high inclination massive payloads to support BFR capable pads on both coasts.
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Re:SpaceX Plans Facility Expansion at Kennedy Space Center by JackCh on Saturday June 09, 2018 @12:41AM (#17271579)
America once launched a reactor into space, the SNAP-10A, from Vandenberg. (Unlike the soviet reactors it was just an experiment.)
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Re:SpaceX Plans Facility Expansion at Kennedy Space Center by walrus01 on Saturday June 09, 2018 @01:12AM (#17271648)
At least it didn't pull an uncontrolled reentry over the Canadian Arctic.
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