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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Kansas City National Security Campus, managed by Honeywell, is a Gold Level sponsor of the 2022 Spaceport America Cup.
Senator George Muñoz, chairman of the finance committee of the New Mexico Senate, said the state could no longer subsidize a $250,000,000 infrastructure project related to Spaceport America.
The state of New Mexico spent more than $200,000,000 on Spaceport America with Virgin Galactic as the anchor tenant.
VSS Imagine will start flying customers later in 2023 and will operate alongside VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
SpinLaunch operates a suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America.
SpinLaunch built a 33-meter suborbital accelerator at Spaceport America.
SpinLaunch built a subscale accelerator 33 m in diameter at Spaceport America.
Unity 23 will be the 23rd flight for VSS Unity and will operate from Spaceport America.
The SpaceShipTwo vehicle landed safely at Spaceport America after the 2021-07-11 Unity 22 flight.
Virgin Galactic plans to develop a campus near Spaceport America for training and lodging to support an increased flight rate.
VSS Unity and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico on 2021-07-11 at 10:40 a.m. Eastern.
VSS Unity glided back to Spaceport America and landed on the runway at 11:38 a.m. Eastern to complete the Unity 22 mission.
Dave Mackay piloted VSS Unity on its 2021-05-22 flight from Spaceport America.
A December 2020 powered flight attempt from Spaceport America was aborted at engine ignition because of a computer reset.
The VSS Unity flight on 2021-05-22 reached an altitude of nearly 90 km and landed at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Monash University received the Charles Hoult Award for Modeling & Simulation at the 2021 Virtual Spaceport America Cup.
University of Waterloo received the Dr. Gil Moore Award for Innovation at the 2021 Virtual Spaceport America Cup.
Cukurova University won the Kron Video Challenge at the 2021 Virtual Spaceport America Cup.
Poznan University of Technology received the Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence at the 2021 Virtual Spaceport America Cup.
Virgin Galactic flew its SpaceShipTwo vehicle VSS Unity on 2021-05-22 to an altitude of 89.2 km with two pilots aboard and landed back at Spaceport America in New Mexico.