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Re:How to Ship the World’s Largest Space Telescope 5,800 Mil... by colechristensen on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:13AM (#28878590)
You get a speed boost the closer you are to the equator and if you want an equatorial orbit you have to spend fuel in orbit to correct down to zero degrees.

It is way cheaper to correct these things on the planet than with bigger rockets.

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