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I wonder if this means SpaceX can build launch and landing facilities in Australia. Australia is really well positioned near the equator. I think it also has be

I wonder if this means SpaceX can build launch and landing facilities in Australia. Australia is really well positioned near the equator. I think it also has better weather than Florida, but I'm not sure.

PaulRobinson 2y ago
The British space/missile program in the 1950s - which focused on forcing peroxide through a silver mesh - was mostly tested in the Australian outback.
- rcdemski 2y ago
  Australia was also under British rule until the 1980s
  - nyokodo 2y ago
    > Australia was also under British rule until the 1980s Not really. The Australia Act 1986 just closed a technical loophole but Australia was for all intents and purposes fully sovereign since ratifying the Statute of Westminster in 1942. [1] 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Act_1986 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Act_1986
- edward28 2y ago
  Also tested nukes out in Woomera.
inemesitaffia 2y ago
See Rocket Lab in New Zealand. There's already a place in Australia I suspect is developed in anticipation