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Rocket Lab selects Wallops for U.S. launch site
Small launch vehicle company Rocket Lab announced Oct. 17 that it will build its second launch pad, and first in the United States, at Wallops Island in Virginia.
The company, headquartered in the United States but with much of its operations in New Zealand, said it will build Launch Complex (LC) 2 at the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility here. Construction of the pad is set to start almost immediately, with the company planning a first launch from the site in the third quarter of 2019.
Rocket Lab selected Wallops after what Rocket Lab Chief Executive Peter Beck called an "exhaustive nationwide search" for a launch site to complement its existing facility in New Zealand, known as LC-1. The company announced four finalists in July that included Wallops as well as Cape Canaveral in Florida, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska.
Also at Ars Technica.
Previously: Rocket Lab Plans to Build its Next Launch Site in the US
Related: NASA Awards Launch Contracts to Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 18 2018, @11:17PM
Besides your numbers being way off... and the fact you haven't considered how digging trenches all over the place to serve the same area wouldn't exactly be ecological...
The outrage should not be directed at the launch company billionaires, but at the billionaires who pay to send yet another bird to help propagate more shitty brain-melting and/or propaganda TV.