threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM to SpaceflightMemes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-210 days agoIn other news, Australia is finally GO for its first domestic orbital launch attempt NET March!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1194arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1192arrow-down1imageIn other news, Australia is finally GO for its first domestic orbital launch attempt NET March!sh.itjust.worksthreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksM to SpaceflightMemes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · edit-210 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBimfred@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 days agoBut how are you going to space if the pointy end is down and the flamey end is up? It should be the other way around!
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 days agoDon’t be silly, sky goes the whole way round, they’re just launching into the nighttime.
minus-squareRedCarCastle@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoYour right on paper, however cause we are on the under side of the flat earth we have to lunch them this way, other wise you get places like the Eiffel Tower just sprouting on the other side
minus-squareZiglin (they/them)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoDon’t worry it rotates after falling off the launchpad so that it can accelerate horizontally from the start.
But how are you going to space if the pointy end is down and the flamey end is up? It should be the other way around!
Don’t be silly, sky goes the whole way round, they’re just launching into the nighttime.
Your right on paper, however cause we are on the under side of the flat earth we have to lunch them this way, other wise you get places like the Eiffel Tower just sprouting on the other side
Don’t worry it rotates after falling off the launchpad so that it can accelerate horizontally from the start.