Man, rocketry has come a long way.
I mean, I assume this means 360 days a year of heavy cloud cover and a 30-mile-an-hour minimum wind speed are no longer considered a problem.
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Who is the sicko planning on putting a poor pony on a rocket??
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Well, the UK did have its own space programme back in the day of course. Even launched they’re own satellite.
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If they have a pony, why do they need a rocket?
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They used to test the rockets near Carlisle, which was almost unbelievable growing up there in the 80s and 90s.
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I can imagine. A UK space agency feels more surreal than the thought that we used to have a train line running through the area before the mass privatisation and dismantling after the Beeching cuts.
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A pretty poor location for launching geostationary satellites. But may be better placed to put satellites into Molniya orbits or other HEO orbits. Maybe some earth-mapping stuff too.
Also, what was the Eddie Izzard line? The British space program could barely afford to put a man in a tracksuit up a ladder?
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Carlisle’s train station just adds to the surrealism there.
An big eight platform station (it used to have more platforms) in a place that felt like the last peaceful place on earth you wanted to be.
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