On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:26 am, J. Greenlees wrote: > definately a better way to go, but most effective location is either > peru or india. the distance to a geosync orbit being reduced by the > altitude of the base. > the US government will never approve of a system that could not be based > in continental us. not for the space program.
For the cost of a couple of miles of ribbon, they could put it on Christmas Island, which is gearing up to be a spaceport anyway. They're confident enough in being able to browbeat the Australian government into just about anything (probably including committing to war with Iraq in the face of polls saying "80% no") that they'd probably go for that. Cheers; Leon
