11-11-2021, 06:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2021, 06:57 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Big Island missed an opportunity with Spin Launch. The meeting by company officials with Ka'u residents was nothing more than a mob shouting into the room, without pausing to listen, probably making more noise than the Spin Launch kinetic launch system would ever make.
Spin Launch and the small rocket / small satellite launch site proposed on Shipman land would have brought the solid basis for the space industry to get a toehold here. It's the future and we could have been a part of it. Both were relatively unobtrusive, probably no more than the giant Air Force cargo plane pilot training runs that buzz Hilo and the vicinity. Those two space launch businesses would have brought other related high tech operations.
All cleaner and quieter than a sugar cane mill, the loss of which in Ka'u is mourned like a beloved family member. Nothing like living downwind on a day the mill is burning cane, driving near an oversized haul truck, or having your home invaded by humongous cane spiders scampering for their lives when the fields are torched. Good times.
Spin Launch and the small rocket / small satellite launch site proposed on Shipman land would have brought the solid basis for the space industry to get a toehold here. It's the future and we could have been a part of it. Both were relatively unobtrusive, probably no more than the giant Air Force cargo plane pilot training runs that buzz Hilo and the vicinity. Those two space launch businesses would have brought other related high tech operations.
All cleaner and quieter than a sugar cane mill, the loss of which in Ka'u is mourned like a beloved family member. Nothing like living downwind on a day the mill is burning cane, driving near an oversized haul truck, or having your home invaded by humongous cane spiders scampering for their lives when the fields are torched. Good times.