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Spaceport America, formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport, is an FAA-licensed spaceport located on 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of State Trust Land in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin 45 miles (72 km) north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Truth or Consequences. [1]
Human space flight — and space tourism — took a welcome step forward on Saturday. That's because Virgin Galactic made New Mexico the third U.S. state to ever host a space launch. The test ...
Long March 9: Wenchang: CASC: CNSA: Low Earth: Flight test First flight of the Long March 9 super heavy-lift launch vehicle. 2033 (TBD) [56] Long March TBD TBA CASC: Fengyun 4G: CMA: Geosynchronous: Meteorology 2033 (TBD) [51] New Glenn: Cape Canaveral LC-36: Blue Origin: Foundational Surface Habitat: NASA: Selenocentric to lunar surface: Lunar ...
The American company has developed Starship with the intention of lowering launch costs using economies of scale. [1] It aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing launch frequency, creating a mass-manufacturing pipeline and adapting it to a wide range of space missions.
Mar. 4—Amplifying what the Land of Enchantment has to offer in the race to space is the New Mexico Space Valley Coalition's mission. New Mexico served as a testing ground for the country's first ...
STS-3 was the first shuttle launch with an unpainted external tank, and the only mission to land at the White Sands Space Harbor near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The orbiter was forced to land at White Sands due to flooding at its originally planned landing site, Edwards Air Force Base.
The Space Coast saw a record number of launches from the two facilities with 57 in 2022. Space Launch Delta 45 commander Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy said in January that there could be between 86 and ...
Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. [12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive. [13]