Recycling Prestwick/Kinloss?
500N "Which they can do from anywhere so why would they pick a cold, wet and windy location when you can do it from a nice, warm location ?"
You don't really want returning "space" vehicles flying through busy airspace so there is a need to choose areas without high traffic levels.
It would be interesting if they choose a Scottish base and Scotland then goes independent meaning the British Space port will be in a foriegn land?
You don't really want returning "space" vehicles flying through busy airspace so there is a need to choose areas without high traffic levels.
It would be interesting if they choose a Scottish base and Scotland then goes independent meaning the British Space port will be in a foriegn land?
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Space Virgins look for Scottish blast off.
This was on BBC world news earlier today - isn't it all to do with Branson and the so called Virgin Galactic project? Piggy back aircraft as some one just posted with fee paying joyriders at 250k a pop?... ideal place then, Prestwick.
So, not really a space-port then...
! Don't think this high alt experience fad will be a world changer. Anyway, lets say you have £100,000 or so to take this trip, it is not going to break the bank to make it into a full blown US of A holiday tour. Who would risk their neck on a rainy day in the UK!
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! Don't think this high alt experience fad will be a world changer. Anyway, lets say you have £100,000 or so to take this trip, it is not going to break the bank to make it into a full blown US of A holiday tour. Who would risk their neck on a rainy day in the UK!OAP
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Macrahanish. Big runway and miles from people.
Just call it Campbeltown [Prestwick].
Just call it Campbeltown [Prestwick].
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Rockets Galore 1957 movie
Mad Little Island (1958) - IMDb
lol 
Anyone want to hazard a guess that creation of space industry up there with launch facilities may generate a hidden agenda? The agenda of covering another agenda for the bumps in the night at Machrihanish during the 80s and 90s and the speedy blips across the DATCO's screen at Leuchars, one wee night AND long may the bumps and humps in the night continue though no longer at Machrihanish be possible 
Good luck to the plans,
Cheers
lol Anyone want to hazard a guess that creation of space industry up there with launch facilities may generate a hidden agenda? The agenda of covering another agenda for the bumps in the night at Machrihanish during the 80s and 90s and the speedy blips across the DATCO's screen at Leuchars, one wee night AND long may the bumps and humps in the night continue though no longer at Machrihanish be possible
Good luck to the plans,
Cheers
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/11/19/uk-clear-way-us-space-rocket-launches-
Britain could soon launch US rockets into space as trade negotiators are striking regulatory deals to remove barriers to trade, even before the UK leaves the EU. A full free trade deal cannot be negotiated before Brexit, but regulatory barriers to trade can be tweaked or removed more quickly and the Department for International Trade is working on identifying these impediments. In the space industry’s case, that means making sure US technology matches UK safety and environmental standards, while also reassuring the Americans that technology developed in the US will be used securely in Britain.
Unless you have the luxury of vast, sparsely inhabited areas such as Baikonur, to avoid wasting fuel and limiting payload, a launching site for space vehicles needs to be:
1. As close to the Equator as possible.
2. On an east coast.
Hence the Ariane site at Kourou is ideal - and is also why the US uses Cape Canaveral.
Prestwick would be far from ideal and Kinloss almost as bad. Quite where a UK site could be based is difficult to imagine. As would be firing rockets up through busy airspace!
Another daft idea from Mother MayDay's increasingly weak and unstable government?
1. As close to the Equator as possible.
2. On an east coast.
Hence the Ariane site at Kourou is ideal - and is also why the US uses Cape Canaveral.
Prestwick would be far from ideal and Kinloss almost as bad. Quite where a UK site could be based is difficult to imagine. As would be firing rockets up through busy airspace!
Another daft idea from Mother MayDay's increasingly weak and unstable government?
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
For geostationary perhaps, but for polar orbits to give total coverage it would seem well placed. Though I believe it is intended more for Virgin Galactic type short hops.
BBC News - Scotland could be base for spaceport, says UK government
Or just a nice bribe.
That's the business case made then.
Or just a nice bribe.
That's the business case made then.
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But hold on a minute, this isn't rockets launching from pads being discussed here s it? I was under the impression that this was for piggyback ops for satellite delivery rather than Virgin Galactic type joy rides?
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