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Re:US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward o... by orbital-decay on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @02:33AM (#31917131)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMV-3ldMvpA

Here's the Energiya launch site (a sequence of 360° photos, you can look around). What part of it could rotate, in your opinion? Keep in mind the tower is also missing the massive supports and the cosmonaut escape route, a humongous tube slide that couldn't move anywhere.

You might be thinking of the first R-7 launchpads that had to be rotated to a fixed angle before the launch because the control system from 1950's was unable to compute the roll maneuver in flight, aerodynamics being too complex for it.

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