Sep 2, 2019
4 min read
The Earth’s Weird Gravity
Why space flight would be cheaper in Sri Lanka
All things being equal (which they’re not) it would cost SpaceX about $190,000 less to launch from Sri Lanka rather than Florida. Because this region has the weakest gravity in the world.
In school we learned that objects fall at 9.8 m/s², but this is actually a global average (news to me). There’s less gravity at…
