Pacific Spaceport in Keaau?

[MarkP]

"...doesn't make sense to me."

Make sense? You have unrealistic expectations.

[Chas]

They say “Shipman land near Keaau”. Did they give the exact location?

Hoping it is in my backyard.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Did they give the exact location?

Chas, from a link earlier in the thread:
The launch pads would be located "between Ha'ena Beach (Shipman Beach) and Papa'i Bay."
Papa'i Bay is due east of Puainako Road in Hilo.

[kalakoa]

The people complaining the loudest all have paved roads, piped water, and hefty property tax exemptions.

If I can have those things, they're welcome to launch rockets from my subdivision.

[Chas]

Thanks HOTPE. Good, I should be able to watch them launch from my lanai.

[TomK]

kalakoa wrote:

"The people complaining the loudest all have paved roads, piped water, and hefty property tax exemptions."

Just curious, but how do you know this?

[kalakoa]

The complainants all seem to be from Panaewa Farm Lots, so I took a quick tour through there. It's a typical DHHL subdivision with paved roads, piped water, grid power, at least one flavor of broadband, and very few homes.

Click through the property tax data, and what do you know? Home and land assessed at $450K with a taxable value of $150K. Vacant lots valued at $150K with a taxable value of $0. County keeps complaining about how "there's no money", well this might have something to do with it.

These exemptions may be entirely proper ... but I'm left with the feeling that a small, vocal minority of well-entitled individuals is being allowed to decide whether the rest of us can have jobs, economic growth, or educational opportunities ... while their less-fortunate brethren are spending hours a day riding the bus to Kona so they can work hard cleaning hotel rooms, earning barely enough to get by, and left with no time to make their opinions heard.

TL;DR: Anyone who says "I support that ... but not near my house" should be required to offer at least two acceptable alternatives OR pay their fair share of the tax burden created when growth isn't allowed.

[terracore]

William Shatner made a video (while smoking a joint) expressing his support for this project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I&t=0m50s

[knieft]

Oh boy, that was rich! Thanks terracore.

Cheers,
Kirt

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Nova has a program about the latest generation of rockets, The Rise Of The Rockets. The largest boosters begin the show, then at:

41 minute mark - Rocket Lab’s small launch vehicles
44 minute mark - a single technician rolls a rocket body across assembly floor

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/rise...e-rockets/

Good program if you’d like to see what the proposed Keaau lauches may look like, showing the size of the vehicles and type of satellites they’ll deploy.