Shetland Space Port

[sherbertdip]

Now that Shetland's space port has been given the greenlight for vertical launches I do wonder why it was chosen as a suitable place (other than nobody lives nearby).

I always thought that payload carrying rockets were better launched from near the equator due to the increased angular momentum there rather than nearer the poles, so reducing fuel requirements and allowing larger payloads.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-...

[sherbertdip]

Thank you both for the information, I hadn't thought about polar orbits, I guess a follow on question is how many launch days a year there would be because of weather limits being broken?