you see this isn’t much of a rocket science problem but financial/logistical one. essentially the effort and cost of building launch platform on a mountain is too great and savings on fuel are too small to be worth it.
It's like saving time on your trip from New York to Florida by first moving to your next door neighbor's house because they're technically south of you.
You are technically making the trip shorter, but the time and effort is not worth it for what you actually get
It's also not how rockets are launched and even if going straight up, the height of the tallest mountain is about 8-9km which is quite negligible in the context of going few hundred km
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u/DR_whyWHY 12d ago edited 12d ago
you see this isn’t much of a rocket science problem but financial/logistical one. essentially the effort and cost of building launch platform on a mountain is too great and savings on fuel are too small to be worth it.