Re:The Looming Spaceport Bottleneck
by drozycki on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:55PM
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What about Texas? There’s the Johnson Space Center (“Houston we have a problem”), plus I thought SpaceX had a Starbase there too.
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JSC isn't a launch site and Starbase has been neutered by environmental red tape.
Re:The Looming Spaceport Bottleneck
by ianvorbach on Friday November 03, 2023 @06:27PM
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Fair point! SpaceX has their site at Boca Chica, but its really only capable of demonstration launches that can thread the needle between Florida and Cuba. Frequently operating rockets need a wider range of orbits you can reach, and so you really need a site on the coasts.