Star Ports

picked up a book at a going out of business sale on space <br /><br />interesting that they listed 20 launch sites around the planet Earth- some I new of and others were a surprise to me<br /><br />it occured to me that a planet with a world government would not have that many, perhaps 2-4<br /><br />at least one near the equator to take advantage of launching payloads to orbit with the extra speed the spin of the planet will impart from the equator and at least 1 more that would be more suitable for launching payloads into polar orbits.<br /><br />naturally the state of the art in space launch of the frontier would be such that ships could land and take off from anywhere but established star ports would date back to the days that rockets needed all the help they could get.<br /><br /><br />I suspect then that Port Loren is close to the equator on Gran Quivera, at least I never really had the impression that it was a water port but rather a star port. that said I would guess that there is a secondary launch site that is more about bulk cargo and yet another port in the northern or southern latitudes serving the needs of launching to polar orbits. <br />