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Acension Island, maybe St Helena, if the goal is to keep the launch pad in "British territory"
by isostatic 9y ago
Acension Island, maybe St Helena, if the goal is to keep the launch pad in "British territory"
- vidarh 9y agoSt Helena's existing airport is problematic due to wind shear and tailwinds - the existing route flying in there takes fewer passengers than the planes they use can normally take to compensate for the difficult conditions, and the geography of the island makes a larger runway problematic. Ascension would be more likely, given that it has a runway intended as an emergency runway for the Shuttle, and it has a bunch of communications facilities (GCHQ, NASA, ESA, BBC Atlantic relay) as well as US and UK military facilities.