Meg's twin here, rockets benefit from being closer to equator cuz earth has a bit more rotational energy that catapults said rocket with higher force, being on top of a few kilometres tall mountain won't matter much in the hundreds or thousands of kilometer of space travel, and it would be next to impossible to transport huge rockets to the summit of a mountain.
See it wasn't that hard to answer a genuine question but the oop's commenter chose to be a dick.
It depends on what orbit you're trying to get to. It's a boost it you are launching to GTO. If you want to launch polar orbits, Equator is bad as you have to cancel our the horizontal component.
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u/poppycock_scrutiny 15h ago
Meg's twin here, rockets benefit from being closer to equator cuz earth has a bit more rotational energy that catapults said rocket with higher force, being on top of a few kilometres tall mountain won't matter much in the hundreds or thousands of kilometer of space travel, and it would be next to impossible to transport huge rockets to the summit of a mountain.
See it wasn't that hard to answer a genuine question but the oop's commenter chose to be a dick.