Thousands expected in Cornwall for Europe’s first satellite launch (theguardian.com) 9 points by monkey_monkey 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] phnofive 3y ago ↗ Related discussion from a couple months ago, with forty-gour comments:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33620606I'm still not getting why this can't 'launch' from LHR. It was built in Long Beach, California, so it's already travelled a long way.
[–] crapaud23 3y ago ↗ French Guyana is Europe [–] JPLeRouzic 3y ago ↗ You may have meant that French Guiana is part of political France, but geographically it is not in Europe.To cite the French WP: "La Guyane, est une région monodépartementale française située en Amérique du Sud"https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyane
[–] JPLeRouzic 3y ago ↗ You may have meant that French Guiana is part of political France, but geographically it is not in Europe.To cite the French WP: "La Guyane, est une région monodépartementale française située en Amérique du Sud"https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyane
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I'm still not getting why this can't 'launch' from LHR. It was built in Long Beach, California, so it's already travelled a long way.
To cite the French WP: "La Guyane, est une région monodépartementale française située en Amérique du Sud"
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyane