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The Belfast Telegraph reports on the Spaceflight Bill, proposed legislation that is to be put before Parliament this week.
The government issued a statement on the proposed legislation. According to the statement, Britain could build space-ports on its own territory "by 2020."
Whether the launch facilities would be on the home islands, in the British Overseas Territories (which include islands in the Caribbean such as Montserrat), or both was unclear to the submitter.
[What, if any, advantages are there for launching from Britain vs a location in the Caribbean? -Ed.]
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(Score: 2) by subs on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:54AM
Sweden, they don't do self defense of their borders, just launch over them anyway
Both the UK and Sweden are members of several tightly knit organizations, which do take this kind of stuff pretty seriously.
Eventually having a spacex first stage fly overhead will be about as worrisome as having a Boeing 777 fly overhead
Commercial aircraft don't have a more than 1% of doing this: https://youtu.be/WTVkhp0MxMc?t=2m26s [youtu.be]
I wonder if there is more to the secret sauce, with extremely high precision GPS I wonder if you could plot a course and guarantee to the Swedes that no matter what happens if the flight goes dumb ballistic at any millisecond, its guaranteed to only hit farmland or uninhabited areas
No, there isn't. There's no straight ~1000km-long path eastward that guarantees you can't hit inhabited areas.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:59PM
There's no straight ~1000km-long path eastward that guarantees you can't hit inhabited areas.
Well yeah, that's exactly what I mean by an actively navigated extremely high resolution, so a 1 m/s correction at launch means you miss Stockholm rather than going directly overhead, combined with a zillion other corrections... lets say a 5% fuel cost is acceptable, or more likely possible... Sort of a think outside the box solution.
(Score: 2) by subs on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:54PM
Sort of a think outside the box solution
See linked video of SpaceX RUD mid-flight. After this, all your solutions go out the window and the debris simply follows a ballistic trajectory with chaotic atmospheric perturbations and a fairly wide dispersion pattern.