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Vandenberg DOES NOT provide redundancy. An orbit from there is useless for a mission profile that was slated for Florida. It costs more fuel and has completely
by kortilla 2y ago
Vandenberg DOES NOT provide redundancy.
An orbit from there is useless for a mission profile that was slated for Florida. It costs more fuel and has completely different ground tracks.
The sats that spacex launches for Starlink, which are about as interchangeable as you can get, are less valuable in polar orbits because they spend significantly less time over population.