Cuz I’ve got a brand new lunar oribter an’ I’ll give you the key,
Come on now let’s get together in zero gravity,
Cuz I’ve reached apoapsis and you’ve reached apogee,
Now I’ve got a brand new lunar oribter an’ I’ll give you the key.
I was initially surprised as Cornwall is a pretty crap location to launch into space from being around 50 degrees north (and with a lot of stuff to the east) and Baikonur at 45 degrees north is still considered less than ideal.
There’s a reason Cape Canaveral (28 degrees North) was used despite the weather.
But it looks like it’s more about launching a plane heading South West to get to a more appropriate launch spot
Incredible. I live here and usually the news is ‘man arrested for masturbating naked except for Wellington boots.’ And now we get a SPACEPORT? I hope it has a W. C. Rowes…
Glad to see some investment in Cornwall!
Newquay Airport has a rather impressive runway for such a rural and under utilised airport. It was strategically important during the Cold War. I do recall that during the Iraq invasion, a bunch of B52s did a refuelling stop in Newquay before flying on to the Middle East. That seemed so ludicrous to me as a young Cornish lad!
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Cuz I’ve got a brand new lunar oribter an’ I’ll give you the key,
Come on now let’s get together in zero gravity,
Cuz I’ve reached apoapsis and you’ve reached apogee,
Now I’ve got a brand new lunar oribter an’ I’ll give you the key.
I was initially surprised as Cornwall is a pretty crap location to launch into space from being around 50 degrees north (and with a lot of stuff to the east) and Baikonur at 45 degrees north is still considered less than ideal.
There’s a reason Cape Canaveral (28 degrees North) was used despite the weather.
But it looks like it’s more about launching a plane heading South West to get to a more appropriate launch spot
Incredible. I live here and usually the news is ‘man arrested for masturbating naked except for Wellington boots.’ And now we get a SPACEPORT? I hope it has a W. C. Rowes…
Glad to see some investment in Cornwall!
Newquay Airport has a rather impressive runway for such a rural and under utilised airport. It was strategically important during the Cold War. I do recall that during the Iraq invasion, a bunch of B52s did a refuelling stop in Newquay before flying on to the Middle East. That seemed so ludicrous to me as a young Cornish lad!