Equator Heat & Pacific Rockets
Globe world maps show the line of intense heat where the Equator bisects the vast Pacific Ocean into North and South.
The Equator is thought of as one of the hottest places on Earth. It's better to relocate farther North to the Tropic of Cancer to reduce heat, as SPACE1 has done.
You can't hide from the heat. Tropical depressions and trade winds can also effect heat off the Equator by transferring it to other locations. The isolation of the Pacific Ocean has attracted not only SPACE1 but other rocket companies such as SpaceX. Three times, in 2006, 2007, and 2008, SpaceX tried to launch a Falcon 1 rocket from Omelek Island in the Pacific Ocean, a coral shelf perhaps a meter above sea level and the size of three soccer fields.
The island is controlled by the United States military under a long-term lease (along with ten other islands in the atoll) and is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site. Kwajalein Atoll is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). The southernmost and largest island in the atoll is named Kwajalein Island, which English-speaking residents often call by the shortened name, Kwaj. The first three SpaceX rocket launches from the hot weather location all failed.
SPACE1 redesigned its rocket fleet for Pacific Ocean compatibility with heat, without failure. SPACE1 is farther away from the equator and has heat relief over a 4 month period around the Monsoon. Space1 is operating away from US military bases in the Pacific Ocean and launches several rocket types. Space1 also operates a very large astronomical observatory in the Pacific Ocean by the name of Singularity Observatory with multiple largest in the world amped telescopes.
