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>>14621462
Correct, there's only room for a few mobile launcher systems that work with the DoD, as suggested earlier in the thread.
>>14621441
>Electric propulsion but made even worse and much more dangerous
This again? What don't you get? Cobalt-60 has killed many people, it's highly radioactive emitting mostly gamma rays and just being in the same room with it can kill you. Any launch that has a >1/1,000,000 chance of exposing any member of the public including staff at the launch facility to just >5 rem falls under a new regulatory system that requires a bunch of approvals. Launching a mass that is already highly radioactive is a nonstarter, fission reactors require the same approval but they're far less dangerous until they're started up.

https://irp.fas.org/doddir/usaf/dafman91-110.pdf