Southwest Airlines, primarily an airline company, indirectly supports the space industry through STEM education initiatives and aviation career programs. They collaborate with organizations to encourage students to pursue careers in aviation and aerospace, offering internships and educational events. Recently, Southwest has also formed partnerships with international carriers like Icelandair to expand its network, connecting customers to global destinations. While not directly involved in manufacturing or space travel, Southwest contributes to the broader aerospace ecosystem.
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Program 437 had two active launch pads on Johnston Island, which is several hundred kilometers southwest of the Hawaiian Islands.
Expace launched an upgraded Kuaizhou-1A rocket at 11:46 p.m. Eastern on 2024-12-03 (0546 UTC, 2024-12-04) from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 12:56 a.m. Eastern (0556 UTC) on 2024-12-03 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
Virgin Orbit conducted an ill-fated debut launch from southwest England in 2023 that contributed to the collapse of its U.S.-based horizontal launch business.
Colonel Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of the Air Force, delivered the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas on 2024-03-08.
AITELECOM/APCO has partnered with technology providers to deliver cost-effective communication services to rural towns in southwest Mexico.
A Long March 2D rocket with a Yuanzheng-3 upper stage lifted off at 5:00 a.m. Eastern (1000 UTC) on 2023-11-23 from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
Al Yah 1 launched in 2011 and Al Yah 2 launched in 2012 and both cover the Middle East, Africa, and central and southwest Asia.
The OSIRIS-REx landing occurred on a military test range southwest of Salt Lake City.
The spacecraft performed a maneuver on 2023-09-10 that changed its velocity by less than one kilometer per hour to line up its trajectory with the Utah Test and Training Range southwest of Salt Lake City.
A Long March 3B rocket launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 1:36 p.m. Eastern (1736 UTC) on 2023-08-12.
A MEOLUT Next antenna picked up a distress signal from the yacht Asteria on 2022-11-18, 2,0 m southwest of La Réunion.
The Long March 11 most recently launched the Shiyan-21 satellite from Xichang in southwest China.
Stantec Government Services has been selected by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest to lead multidiscipline architect-engineer and consulting services under a five-year, $30,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity single-award task order contract.
The Tianlian II-03 satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
High resolution imagery shows the facilities southwest of Jiuquan intact in October 2021 and the apparent aftermath of an explosion visible in imagery from November 2021.
A Long March 2C launched nine positioning and connectivity test satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 12:00 a.m.
Southwest Airlines Co. selected Viasat’s next-generation Ka-band satellite in-flight connectivity system to be factory-installed on all new aircraft deliveries starting in the first quarter of 2023.
A small asteroid approximately 2 m in size designated 2022 EB5 impacted Earth’s atmosphere southwest of Jan Mayen on 2022-03-11.
LauncherOne reaches the 45-degree inclination for the Above the Clouds mission by shifting the drop point off the Southern California coast to the west-southwest of the one used on previous launches.