Mount Tennent in the centre background at 0:10 in the video. Tidbinbilla Deep Space tracking station is a bit off to the right (and behind a range of hills).
I'm frankly surprised that they've chosen Canberra (the nation's capital) as a launch city. The degree of nimbyism in Canberra would be very high with a lot of people who are very good at lobbying and political action (it's their job). In the case of this particular project I see that as a good thing. I think delivering coffees by a noisy drone that overflies urban areas is an incredibly stupid enterprise.
They probably chose Canberra as it has no state government, which is an entire monolith of bureaucracy to avoid, and in the NT they'd probably just shoot at them ;-)
Easy layout, yes. Fairly flat? No. Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth are far flatter.
Canberra is situated in a horst and graben [1] landscape with multiple prominent ridges separating the various urban 'valley' sections of the city.
Don't get me wrong, I can see some of the reasons why they may have picked Canberra. Generally a population with a high percentage of early tech adopters. Houses set back from the road with easy landing driveways at front. Power lines run along the back of property lines, not along the street. Etc, etc. Just I think they underestimated the resistance they are very likely to experience and also underestimated the danger of annoying the actual lawmakers who live there.
Mount Tennent in the centre background at 0:10 in the video. Tidbinbilla Deep Space tracking station is a bit off to the right (and behind a range of hills).
I'm frankly surprised that they've chosen Canberra (the nation's capital) as a launch city. The degree of nimbyism in Canberra would be very high with a lot of people who are very good at lobbying and political action (it's their job). In the case of this particular project I see that as a good thing. I think delivering coffees by a noisy drone that overflies urban areas is an incredibly stupid enterprise.