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Baikonur is 45.62° N, 63.31° E Vostochny Cosmodrome, (Tsiolkovsky, Amur Oblast) is 51.85° N, 128.35° E. 550 miles west of Sakhalin Island and the Sea of Japan.
by smcin 4y ago
Baikonur is 45.62° N, 63.31° E
Vostochny Cosmodrome, (Tsiolkovsky, Amur Oblast) is 51.85° N, 128.35° E.
550 miles west of Sakhalin Island and the Sea of Japan.
- pestatije 4y ago51° N is like London...not the best latitude for launching to space
- rob74 4y agoIt's definitely not optimal, but GP probably wanted to highlight that it's not much worse than Baikonur (45°), at least when you compare it to Cape Canaveral (28°) or Kourou (5°). Actually, Roskosmos was cooperating with ESA to launch some of their rockets from Kourou, but of course since the Ukraine attack that is suspended (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-suspends-cooperation-with-europe-space-launches-french-guiana-2022-02-26/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-suspends-coopera...)
- maxerickson 4y agoYeah, most of the continental US is better than 45°.
- _joel 4y agoGot to love those dog-leg manouevres and a dashing of extra fuel :)
- sorenjan 4y agoI don't know anything about space launches, how come the first orbital launch site in mainland Europe is in Esrange in northern Sweden, latitude 67° N? Are different latitudes good for different trajectories?