With climate change opening up more routes through the arctic seas, it becomes a strategic place to set up shop and control all that traffic (read: tax.)
Incidentally we already have a base there. (I believe it’s for launching rockets into polar orbits. Don’t quote me on that.)
With climate change opening up more routes through the arctic seas, it becomes a strategic place to set up shop and control all that traffic (read: tax.)
Incidentally we already have a base there. (I believe it’s for launching rockets into polar orbits. Don’t quote me on that.)
I didn’t think that’s true, at least for NASA. According to their site California is the preferred launch location for polar orbits .
https://public.ksc.nasa.gov/lspeducation/launch-operations/
Apparently I conflated a few things. In any case it’s a Space force base
Ah, that does make sense. Easy to conflate the air force with NASA.
I refuse to acknowledge Trump’s “space force”. Childish, I know.