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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]
The two runways were extended and a third one added. Barracks were constructed to house 2,734 male and 376 female military personnel. The expansion of MCAAS Mojave was done by Vinson & Pringle and Del E. Webb Construction Company out of Phoenix, Arizona. [5] Civilian employment at the base would peak at 176.
Oklahoma Spaceport, Burns Flat, [77] [78] Silver Space Ports, Arizona [citation needed] Spaceport Washington, Moses Lake, Washington [79] [80] This project was proposed in 2005 by a small real estate brokerage firm operating from an office in Renton, Washington, and has since proven to have been a scam.
The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (generally referred to as FAA/AST or simply AST [1] [note 1]) is the branch of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that approves any commercial rocket launch operations — that is, any launches that are not classified as model, amateur, or "by and for the government" — in the case of a U.S. launch operator and/or a launch ...
The spaceport is owned by Pima County (where the spaceport is located) and operated by World View. World View is the anchor tenant of the spaceport with a 20-year lease contract. [ 13 ] The spaceport in practice consists of a circular, 200-meter-diameter concrete launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and the World View facility located at the ...
Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic: Galactic 06: Virgin Galactic: Suborbital Crewed spaceflight: 26 January 17:56: Successful Apogee: 88.8 km (55.2 mi). 30 January [230] UGM-133 Trident II: HMS Vengeance, ETR: Royal Navy: Royal Navy: Suborbital Missile test: 30 January: Launch failure Second consecutive failure of a UK-launched Trident missile ...
UP Aerospace conducted eight launches from Spaceport America during 2006–2009, including three in 2009. [6] They plan to "double the number of customer launches from Spaceport America to six or more in 2010 as demand for the company's services increases."
SpinLaunch was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Yaney in Sunnyvale, California.The company's headquarters are in Long Beach. [6] In 2020 it opened a launch site. SpinLaunch continued development of its 140,000 square-foot (13,000 m 2) corporate headquarters in Long Beach, and of its flight test facility at Spaceport America in New Mexico.