Edit: Thank you for your answers, I did a complete brain fart and said South instead of closer to the equator, you all rock
In: Planetary Science
The equator is the best place to launch, not further South.
The entire Earth rotates once per day, but a point on the equator travels the entire circumference of the Earth in a single day, but a point near a pole only travels in a small circle during that same amount of time.
A rocket on the equator gets to start off with that velocity, and one at a pole does not.
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