The Equator Is a Bad Place for These Rocket Launches

Some satellites orbit in the same direction the planet rotates, which means they get a boost for their launch, but most have orbits where that isn’t ideal, and that creates some challenges for engineers. Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://maps.esri.com/rc/sat2/index.html# https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a10840.html http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/herd-shot-around-the-world-the-last-east-coast-polar-launch/article/567614 https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/feedback/expert/answer/mcc/sts-112/09_04_12_54_17.html https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/OrbitsCatalog https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095935986 http://www.satobs.org/faq/Chapter-04.txt https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Types_of_orbits#SSO http://www.eurockot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ch3UsersGuideIss5Rev0.pdf [PDF] https://acadpubl.eu/jsi/2018-118-16-17/articles/17/18.pdf [PDF] https://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/jason-davis/3450.html https://aerospace.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/190313__SpaceportsOfTheWorld.pdf [PDF] http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0089.shtml Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2971 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3117 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4772 https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4745 https://www.nasa.gov/content/astronaut-alexander-gerst-checks-out-station-cupola https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30763 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astra_Rocket_3.0_flight_1_launch_campaign_97.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/history/this-week-in-nasa-history-first-crewed-saturn-v-mission-launches-dec-21-1968.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Enterprise_at_Vandenberg_AFB_SLC-6_-_DF-ST-86-09420.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lift_Off_120403-F-CY114-094.jpg