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Spaceport America terminal hangar facility as of October 2010 The "Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space" in October 2010 The runway under construction, March 2010. Construction of the first temporary launch facility at the spaceport site in Sierra County began on April 4, 2006. [14]
Launch site to be used for suborbital and polar low-Earth orbital launch on the east coast by companies BluShift Aerospace and VALT Enterprises [73] [74] and funded by Maine Space Grant Consortium. Additional rocket launch sites in North America
UP Aerospace SL-8 launch on November 12 took place at Spaceport America and reached 385,000 feet. On board were experiments sponsored by NASA's Flight Opportunities Program. [ 17 ] Brian Barnett, Satwest President, led a team of Albuquerque students that sent the first commercial text messages to space using a Satwest satellite phone inside one ...
Jun. 23—A spacecraft known as the Dream Chaser could someday land at Spaceport America. Sierra Space, based in Colorado, signed an agreement with the Southern New Mexico spaceport to use its ...
Jun. 8—SPACEPORT AMERICA — Slipping through the cracks in a throng of hundreds of people, a little boy in a white shirt leaned over a crowd-control barrier, straining to see a rocket ship that ...
Sep. 14—TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES — Carol Sugars said she didn't really see the draw of Spaceport America. But that didn't stop the Torrance County resident from traveling to the launch site ...
In 2013, SpaceX constructed a 30-by-30-meter (98 ft × 98 ft) pad at Spaceport America, 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) southwest of the spaceport's main campus, and will lease the pad for US$6,600 per month plus US$25,000 per Grasshopper flight. The spaceport administrator expected SpaceX to be operational at the Spaceport between October 2013 and ...
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority runs the 18,000-acre Spaceport America that includes a vertical launch area, a horizontal launch area and an advanced technology area. Virgin Galactic is the ...