Jim Choate wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tim May wrote:
Sealand is a _terrible_ launch location. For multiple reasons.
Your ignorance is astounding to behold.
Really? You know of another place that is likely to allow you to launch rockets to LEO with the express intent of putting wild-card remailers and such in orbit? You know many countries with the sort of technical infrastructure required for even amateur attempts? While it's true it's latitude and weather aren't optimal for any sort of sustained commercial or government effort but we're not talking about that now are we? It's certainly someplace on the E. coast of the horn of Africa would be ideal I think the S. Africans ban amatuer experimental rocketry (you are aware MOST countries ban amateur rocketry?).
South Africa is about as far from the Horn of Africa as New York is from Peru. There have been commercial launches from Kenya, and from offshore platforms in the Indian Ocean. Ken