It's also easier to launch closer to the equator, hence Cape Canaveral being in Florida.

Launch rocket from another rocket, too easy

Okay hear me out…we hollow out Mt. Everest and turn it into a gigantic VAB and just gradually elevate the rockets up to the top as they’re being built.

Why not just launch rockets from space instead?

France and Europe (ESA) have the ideal launching base with Kourou Space Center in French Guiana, extremely close to the Equator...

The most optimal launch platform would be one that's already in orbit.

ROCKET science is too easy with everyday astronaut

I think, if a major conflict opens up between superpowers, we will find that intercontinental missiles are launched from all sorts of places we never expected…

I think the Mariana trench cannon in the game Soma makes sense

Trying to get a rocket up to the mountain doesnt seem like an easy job

Dont drive the rockets up a road. Make the rockets at the peak.

Scientific videos from a real person with no fluff whatsoever. That's how youtube should be.

it is a worthy trade off. We just haven't bothered. Some mountains have better weather and obviously you'd build escalators to make the trio up the mountain easy as pie. If we're serious, we'll do it one day

He did get the answer, its cost vs gain, cost of doing a project like this is not worth the gain we would actually get, the gain is so little aswell to the cost of building the rocket that it could take years before doing such a project would pay off due to the tiny bit less required to get it into space so not really worth it, its just more practical to build it on land that is basically 90 percent ready to have a launch system built on it.

Id watch full length if given a link

The equator would be easier but the practicality of getting the rocket, the equipment and the people all to the top of the mountain and set up a base there would be almost impossible

Just launch a rocket in space, actually so simple

If I were to play this in a game, I would build my rocket manufacturing assembly unit on top of the mountain. I'd use as much resources from the mountain as possible and have the rest delivered and then just build the rockets there.

I mean, a place like Honolulu, Hawaii is a land mass rising out of the ocean higher than Mount Everest. Basically that summit-plateau would be a great place to launch rockets from but... it's an ancient burial site or something.. protected by laws for National landmarks.. that'll fine you big.. So yeah, new plan! Spin launcher baby!!!

Few places it could be doable for retrograde orbits. Because those are oh so common.

dig into the mountain at the base and have a mechazilla -like elevator lift it up through the middle of the mountain to the top instead of hauling it up. underground bunker facility + height advantage + every % you dont need to compensate for is distance / weight you can put into space. If you wanted to you could probably even invest in technology that helps make the weather a little better, would probably be best to do this in a location in which the wildlife isnt really special or there isnt much at all. or we could fix all of these problems and just skyhook. Time to go asteroid mining for materials so building giant stuff is cheap!

I'ma treat this entire hypothetical as an excuse to underscore the country that infamously has no such restrictions on overflying populated areas.

Build a rocket elevator!

The fact that this has to be explained worries me

Because getting off the ground is the hard part, Once you lift off, flying through the air to get to space is relatively straightforward, more a function of your longitude than the altitude.

Do an Elon.. By the mountain, and make it into a Rocket factory... 😂😂

Sounds like the argument against reusable rockets , Sounds good until someone does it and it works.

Probably a dumb comment but I have often wondered if they could build a tower on Olympus mons to dock with, meaning they don't need to launch and land through mars thin atmosphere

I heard a scientist saying that for “sun synchronous orbit” that launching from around 45° latitude is favourable. Could this be true?

I know all of you are here for the rocket launching explanation. However I'm looking at Pike's peak thinking about how fast of a sprint record I can achieve with parts of a rocket strapped on a celica gt four st025.

When you going to the moon Dodders? Still confident that you'll survive?

Build it on the mountain

Unstable weather conditions and getting everything up thr mt

Where you going to watch the IFT-3 from?

Or, they’d come down on land, instead of falling into the ocean, like they do now. 😂

My question is why don’t we launch from Antarctica

Ok, but why don't we launch rockets from a mountain ... on the equator?

thrust in a vacuum... lol

That doesn’t seem like a ‘no brainer’ to me. As soon as you said it, I thought that it really didn’t seem worth it. And for the same reasoning you brought up, just all the hell you’re putting yourself through just assembling the area where the rocket will take off from.

Why not off of hot air balloons, is this equally impractical

Correct

Quito Ecuador

I have land in meghalaya very hilly can you talk to Elon ? Willing to give him area for space x

NASA Fanboys are the worst what's your full length video I can barely handle this short. Wake up NASA shouldn't have bloopers.

Something so obvious didn't needed a video Whats next, why dont they launch rockets from bottom of ocean?

Why not launch from a giant balloon?

Si te haces esa pregunta es que sabes menos de física y geografía que un niño de secundaria.

I guess that’s why you’re the only person who had that question. lol, JK

Dont over think it. It’s not rocket science.

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So pretty much it ain't worth the extra effort..problem solved

colorado springs is a "major metropolitan area?"

Most pointless video ever

“Seems like a no-brainer.” Yup. You’d have to be brainless to think this was a good idea.

Dude shut up they can land them now

Space starts at 62 miles high and nothing has ever been to space because rockets can not produce thrust in a vacuum so the rocket just falls back down at the 62 mile mark