This is just a nonsense story. Unless the Brexiters are going to throw the kitchen sink at it with taxpayers money for some fleg waving antics, which wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
JAXA huh? Hope it doesn’t end in the end of the world(who knows knows).
Japan lauching from the UK?
It’d be wild if the European Space Agency would set up its main launch sites in South America
Oh wait.
Ah the famous clear and cloudless skies of Shetland. That what I call Up Helly Aa.
Is that confirmed? Sounds like something written on a red bus 😂
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Why Shetland?
FTA:
>”But people are coming to Shetland because the geography, the maths and the physics work”
I’m no space talking guy but I thought it was the nearer you are to the equator the more of a boost you get due to Earths rotation.
Oi mate, you’v got a loicense for that rocket? You cant lounch from here mate /s
JAXA already has enough troubles launching from Japan so i am not holding my breath.
[Japan’s new rocket fails on debut launch in setback for space program](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/asia/japan-space-launch-destroyed-intl-hnk/index.html)
How long before NIMBY group set up to stop it.
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This is just a nonsense story. Unless the Brexiters are going to throw the kitchen sink at it with taxpayers money for some fleg waving antics, which wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
JAXA huh? Hope it doesn’t end in the end of the world(who knows knows).
Japan lauching from the UK?
It’d be wild if the European Space Agency would set up its main launch sites in South America
Oh wait.
Ah the famous clear and cloudless skies of Shetland. That what I call Up Helly Aa.
Is that confirmed? Sounds like something written on a red bus 😂