Japanese space agency to launch from Shetland in major boost to Britain

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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