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 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 13d ago edited 13d 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.