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    41 month ago

    Burton Catledge, Launch on Demand’s CEO, said the study will focus on the Oviedo area to the south of the island nation and include flight corridor analysis, climatology assessment, physical security evaluation, airspace/maritime impacts, and frequency deconfliction.

    That doesn’t make sense; they’ll have to worry about flying over Puerto Rico and much of the Leeward Islands from there. Launch from the north of the island and it looks like they could avoid most land quite easily.

    • @threelonmusketeersM
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      21 month ago

      Could they launch southeast towards Barbados? That distance is much greater than, say, Cape Canaveral to the Bahamas, which is a fairly common trajectory.