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A single rocket launch is sufficient for inclusion in the table, as long as the site is properly documented through a reference. Missile locations with no launches are not included in the list. Proposed and planned sites and sites under construction are not included in the main tabulation, but may appear in condensed lists under the tables.
Spaceport America is owned and operated by the State of New Mexico, via a state agency, the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. [3] [4] [5] The first rocket launch at Spaceport America occurred on September 25, 2006. The current tenants working in the U.S. spaceport are HAPSMobile Aerovironment, UP Aerospace, SpinLaunch, and Virgin Galactic. [6]
Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive.From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.
Spaceport America in southern New Mexico is the super-cool launchpad from which Virgin Galactic promises to send its first commercial spacecraft into. Should you ever book a flight to space, wanna ...
Spaceport America in southern New Mexico is the super-cool launchpad from which Virgin Galactic promises to send its first commercial spacecraft into Spaceport America: The Hub Where Future ...
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 ...
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 ...
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving spacecraft, by analogy to a seaport for ships or an airport for aircraft. The word spaceport , and even more so cosmodrome , has traditionally been used for sites capable of launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth or on interplanetary trajectories. [ 1 ]