Selenian Boondocks is comparing some of the pros and cons of inland spaceports vs coastal spaceports. He makes some fairly saliant points, and I would agree that overland launches make more sense once you’re discussing reusable vehicles such as Scaled Composites makes, for instance.

There’s also an interesting essay talking about the chicken-and-egg problem that the small-satellite business has faced, and a little hope that it may be solved sometime soon. The chicken-and-egg problem is that there’s no market because there’s no launchers for small sats, and no launchers because there’s no market. I suspect that once it does get going though, the small satellite market is going to provide most of the innovation that fuels rocketry.