High inclination Launch Center in Germany?

[Kryten]

Kodiak has three launches despite being exactly what you're proposing here; a specialised high-inclination launch site. Athena, and thus it's kodiak launch site, was handily outcompeted by launchers based at much lower inclinations (Minotaur and Delta II from Vandenburg, 34 degrees North, Dnepr from Baikonur and Yasny, both about 50 degrees north); why would you Peenemünde be able to do any better, especially given the range issues? Almost all high-inclination sats are military, and therefore extremely unlikely to be exported to a foreign site, and the rest simply don't justify the expense of a new site.

[Nephf]

Kodiak has three launches despite being exactly what you're proposing here; a specialised high-inclination launch site. Athena, and thus it's kodiak launch site, was handily outcompeted by launchers based at much lower inclinations (Minotaur and Delta II from Vandenburg, 34 degrees North, Dnepr from Baikonur and Yasny, both about 50 degrees north); why would you Peenemünde be able to do any better, especially given the range issues? Almost all high-inclination sats are military, and therefore extremely unlikely to be exported to a foreign site, and the rest simply don't justify the expense of a new site.

May you're right. But I like the idea though.

[Tex_NL]

What's so 'specialised' about a 'high-inclination launch site'? A higher latitude severely limits the inclination range and it also lacks the free orbital momentum. Besides an already existing infrastructure perhaps there are literally no benefits of a high latitude I can think of.

[Kryten]

If you want to put something into a polar orbit, you have to cancel out the 'free orbital momentum' from earth's rotation; this is less of a factor at high latitudes.

[Nephf]

If you want to put something into a polar orbit, you have to cancel out the 'free orbital momentum' from earth's rotation; this is less of a factor at high latitudes.

If you look at this, you should build a launch center at the south pole.

[m1xte]

Sorry m1xte but you don't say.

As if somebody wouldn't know that.

Sour krauts probably know but rest of the world probably doesn't.

Peenemünde was the first space center in existence.

[Canopus]

Sour krauts probably know but rest of the world probably doesn't.

Peenemünde was the first space center in existence.

Well maybe you are right. The whole world knows about the so titled "V2" though i guess.

[Nephf]

Well maybe you are right. The whole world knows about the so titled "V2" though i guess.

As it was the first man-made object in space, I think so. It actually wasn't in orbit, but in some test flights it achieved 200+ km of height. It was launched from from peenemünde, the Meillerwagen, White Sands and th Cape Caneveral. Something that isn#t knwn yet is who launched Aggregat-4 rockets from Peenemuende post-war, they were just seen as the Scandinavian Ghost Rockets.

Edited December 27, 2013 by Nephf

[Canopus]

Sorry but that isn't true no one launched A-4 postwar in Peememünde. "Scandinavian Ghost Rockets" are just storys or other Ufo sighting (true or not) but no A-4's.

Edited December 27, 2013 by Canopus

[Kryten]

The British launched three from Cuxhaven in October '45 (operation backfire), but there's no way anyone launched anything from Peenemünde; by that point it was rubble.

[Nephf]

That is what it says:

Post-war V-2s launched in secret from Peenemünde may have been responsible for a curious phenomenon known as ghost rockets, unexplained objects crossing the skies over Sweden and Finland.