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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
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]
Launch date: 6 October 2023, 15:28 UTC: Launch site: Spaceport America Runway 34: Deployed from: VMS Eve: End of mission; Landing date: 6 October 2023, 16:23 UTC: Landing site: Spaceport America Runway 34: Galactic 04 mission patch
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Virgin Galactic laying off workers, pausing flights as it prepares for new Delta spacehips' launch in 2026 at New Mexico's Spaceport America
VMS Eve, a WhiteKnightTwo mothership, took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, and carried VSS Unity in a parasite configuration before releasing it. From there, the spaceplane ignited its rocket engine and flew to over 50 mi (80 km) in altitude, above the U.S. definition for the start of space, but below the FAI -defined Kármán line at ...