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I looked up the region and its like 1000km inland! It's so strange that they do this. Nearly everyone else (US, Japan, ESA, India) launches it from sea-coasts.
by th2o3i423p4234 3y ago
I looked up the region and its like 1000km inland! It's so strange that they do this.
Nearly everyone else (US, Japan, ESA, India) launches it from sea-coasts. I guess Russia does the same thing (Baikanour), but I haven't heard of such incidents from their side.
Edit:
Apparently Roscosmos' stuff usually falls on unpopulated regions in Siberia. Surprised China didn't build a launch center on the coast (probably still an issue because of the numerous islands looking out from their coast).
- Fatnino 3y agoThey have since built a launch center of the coast. But they still use this inland one sometimes.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThe Russian far east is very sparsely populated. Sichuan is heavily populated in the regions where they launched this (it also has unpopulated Tibetan regions, but too many mountains).