Spaceport America is the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, owned and operated by the State of New Mexico. It serves as a launch site for suborbital and orbital flights, offering both vertical and horizontal launch capabilities. Key tenants and partners include Virgin Galactic, UP Aerospace, SpinLaunch, and other companies in the commercial space industry, with the goal of enabling affordable and efficient access to space. Associated keywords: commercial spaceflight, launch facility, space tourism, New Mexico Spaceport Authority.
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The New Mexico Spaceport Authority has contracted an out-of-state firm to create a new 'Master Plan and Strategy' for Spaceport America.
The majority of projected revenue for Spaceport America was expected to come from terrestrial tourism rather than space tourism.
The first crewed flight from Spaceport America occurred on May 22, 2021.
The Galactic 06 suborbital flight took place on 2024-01-26 from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Spaceport America executive director Scott McLaughlin proposed a $2,000,000 orbital launch competition to New Mexico legislators but assessed that the state was unlikely to provide the funding in the current year and planned to pursue it again next year while seeking cooperation with other interested spaceports.
Spaceport America in New Mexico is pursuing funding for an Orbital Launch Challenge prize that would award $2,000,000 to the first company to receive an FAA license for and later attempt an orbital launch from Spaceport America.
Virgin Galactic is scheduled to perform the Galactic 06 mission flight of its VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane on January 26 from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
VSS Unity landed on a runway at Spaceport America at 12:56 p.m. Eastern on 2024-01-26.
The VMS Eve and VSS Unity took off from Spaceport America at 12:00 p.m. Eastern on 2024-01-26.
Once Unity flights end, staff who work on the vehicles at Spaceport America in New Mexico will move to a new factory near Phoenix that the company expects to complete in the second quarter of 2024 to help assemble the first Delta-class vehicles.
VSS Unity spaceplane took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico at 9 a.m. Eastern attached to the VMS Eve mothership aircraft.
Galactic 05 will launch from The Gateway to Space at Spaceport America.
The first space mission is set for liftoff on Thursday, November 2, from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico.
Spaceport America is Virgin Galactic’s operations base for commercial suborbital missions.
Virgin Galactic scheduled the VSS Unity Galactic 05 suborbital flight for a window that opens 2023-11-02, from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Virgin Galactic operates the VMS Eve mothership aircraft and the SpaceShipTwo Unity spaceplane to provide suborbital spaceflights for private astronaut customers from Spaceport America.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo vehicle VSS Unity took off from Spaceport America attached to its VMS Eve mothership at 11:28 a.m. Eastern on 2023-10-06.
The planned Celestis mission intended to send 118 passengers' cremated remains into space via a suborbital flight from Spaceport America.
VSS Unity glided back to a runway landing at Spaceport America at 11:36 a.m. Eastern on 2023-09-08.
VMS Eve and VSS Unity took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico at approximately 10:20 a.m. Eastern on 2023-08-10.