Which is the best location for a spaceport?

[Riain]

The Shorts Belfast was specifically designed to take Blue Streak out to Woomera, so why is distance put out there as such an obstacle when even the poverty-stricken RAF can build a plane to overcome the distance? It's not the miles travelled that's the problem but the loading and unload at each end, but even these pale in comparison to the launch costs.

 

[edvader]

Colliers had a man in space series in the fifties-later on Disneyland which had a base in the Pacific near the Equator.The articles are mentioned in Colliers site.

 

[Heisenberg]

there are two Guyana one is British, the other is French. Last one has the ESA launch Pads

back to topic
Heisenberg, is this about Low orbit manned space flights and unmanned GEO flights
or are also consider Lunar and Interplanetary flights ?

The initial intent is to launch spy satellites to keep an eye on the Yanks. Nothing outside low orbit.

Guyana or Trinidad. I personally voted for Trinidad - that island needs more attention. Both places are mostly flat and close to the equator, so would be roughly equal. The only downside to Trinidad I can think of would be less available space for building the spaceport (certainly more disputes with landowners over selling their plots, etc.).

I agree, T&T needs more love. If it is not getting the spaceport iTTL I'll have to think of something else.

While it's the most efficient, you don't need to be on the equator for a spaceport, I mean their are lots of proposed and planned ones much further North.

I thought about Cape Breton (which the CSA has considered in OTL as a launch site), but figured south was best.

 

[lionhead]

Well, there is nice empty patch of land in front of my house. Place your spaceships there just make sure they don't need a runway.

 

[phx1138]

Galapagos Islands

Which, if I'm not mistaken, is a national park & off-limits to the likes of spaceports...

 

[Joseph Solis in Australia]

The Sibutu Island (few nautical miles east of Sabah, Malaysia) of Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines is the perfect place as a spaceport for Japanese, Korean, Russian, and American space programs.

I think no one mentions Sri Lanka as an excellent spaceport location as it has the lowest gravity concentration on Earth.