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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
With Virgin Galactic's launch of the VSS Unity, with three people aboard, on May 22, 2021, New Mexico became the third US state to launch humans into space after California and Florida. [ 2 ] Spaceport America is "the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport", designed and constructed specifically for commercial users, that had not ...
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.
The Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 46 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is the easternmost near the tip of the cape. [ 21 ] In 1999, the North American Numbering Plan Administration allocated telephone area code 321 (as in a launch countdown ) to the Cape Canaveral area in homage to its spacefaring heritage.
Opportunities to watch a rocket launch from a Florida beach seem to be increasing, too. In 2023, FLORIDA TODAY, a USA TODAY Network-Florida newspaper, reported a record-breaking 72 orbital ...
Launch Complex 48 (LC-48) is a multi-user launch site under construction for small launchers and spacecraft. It will be located between Launch Complex 39A and Space Launch Complex 41, with LC-39A to the north and SLC-41 to the south. [57] LC-48 will be constructed as a "clean pad" to support multiple launch systems with differing propellant needs.
The US Space Force selected Blue Origin, ULA and SpaceX in June to compete for $5.6 billion worth of Pentagon contracts for national security missions slated to launch over the next four years.
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 ...