Direction of launches

On Apr 26, 8:11*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:

Assuming they are trying to
shoot it over the Straits of Gibraltar, and it goes over northern
Tunisia and Algeria.
Thread it between Sicily and Tunisia, and they end up going over
southern Spain.

Yes, but it's already most of the way to orbit by then and coasting.
The Shavit is a peppy solid rocket and burns out in ca. three minutes,
not farther out than around Crete. So who's going to object? Or do
much about it?

It would be interesting to find out if Israel issued warning notices
for the stage splashes in the Med.

Pat Flannery wrote:

I was just checking great circle launch trajectories from Israel
westwards into orbit on Google Earth, and there's no way they can do it
without passing over someone else's country. Assuming they are trying to
shoot it over the Straits of Gibraltar, and it goes over northern
Tunisia and Algeria.
Thread it between Sicily and Tunisia, and they end up going over
southern Spain.

Time it for about 15:00 CET, nobody's going to notice.