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As much as we all hate Goatse links there is quite a strange link between Goatse and this article.

Goatse is hosted on the cx domain. Christmas Island, which may one day be a space port It also another part of Austalia's dirty "Illegal immigrant" refugee handling system of which Woomera is another part.

Just remember you are not Australian if you can remember the words to the national anthem and know who the first prime minister was.

I can assure you that the rockets from Chistmas Island will not pass over Indonesia... Ian Bryce, Chief Engineer, Asia Pacific Space Centre. Ian, thanks for the link to the flight paths. I didn't realize rockets started shedding stages so early. Flight path A (just south of east, for near-equatorial orbits) drops several pieces in the strait between Indonesia/New Guinea and Australia. This is indeed deep ocean, but not very wide if those Russian guidance systems malfunction. Of course, the control center does have self-destruct options when a rocket starts to go off course. I think most American launches pass pretty close to but not quite over the Bahamas, and although our systems are far from 100% reliability they have never killed any Bahamians... The other flight paths are pretty safe: B (southeast over western Australia, dropping all the pieces before the land) and C (SSW over one of the emptiest parts of the ocean), but is there any advantage to an equatorial launch point if the orbit is not going to the east?

For those with questions;
i) The Aurora rocket being developed will use liquid oxygen/kerosene for all stages so the worst real pollutants will be CO2 and H2O.
ii) The best direction to launch is east.
iii) The project is completely private. The government is simply providing a funding boost to "get it off the ground" in anticipation of job creation/taxes/exports.
iv) See here for more info

... of the consortium behind the development of a rocket launching facility on .cx

from the site

Aurora Launch System Summary

The AURORA launch system is offered by Asia Pacific Space Centre (APSC) to commercial users worldwide. AURORA is a Russian designed and manufactured system that will be launched from the APSC spaceport on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

Typical Flight Paths

With launch from Christmas Island, several flight corridors for AURORA have been identified illustrating the safe nature of the overflight paths and hardware jettison drop zones.

... of the consortium behind the development of a rocket launching facility on .cx

from the site

Aurora Launch System Summary

The AURORA launch system is offered by Asia Pacific Space Centre (APSC) to commercial users worldwide. AURORA is a Russian designed and manufactured system that will be launched from the APSC spaceport on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

Typical Flight Paths

With launch from Christmas Island, several flight corridors for AURORA have been identified illustrating the safe nature of the overflight paths and hardware jettison drop zones.

... of the consortium behind the development of a rocket launching facility on .cx

from the site

Aurora Launch System Summary

The AURORA launch system is offered by Asia Pacific Space Centre (APSC) to commercial users worldwide. AURORA is a Russian designed and manufactured system that will be launched from the APSC spaceport on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean.

Typical Flight Paths

With launch from Christmas Island, several flight corridors for AURORA have been identified illustrating the safe nature of the overflight paths and hardware jettison drop zones.