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Was Starship’s “launch window” administrative, rather than due to orbital mechanics?
In the latest episode of What about it!?, the host claimed that a cruise ship was scheduled to enter the area (presumable to dock in the Port of Brownsville) later in the day, and that this was the ...
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Was Starship’s “launch window” administrative, rather than due to orbital mechanics?
To add to what Dragongeek said, there is a road in Boca Chica that must be closed for launches. So disruptive is this closure, that Elon Musk has considered building a tunnel near the launch site for ...
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Was Starship’s “launch window” administrative, rather than due to orbital mechanics?
Besides the "physical" constraints of launch windows (orbital parameters, technical limits like fueling), keeping a launch window "open" is also associated with a large fiscal and ...
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