UP Aerospace, Inc. is a private spaceflight corporation specializing in suborbital launch services for corporate, military, and educational payloads. As a launch provider, they utilize their SpaceLoft XL sounding rocket, launched from Spaceport America, for low-cost access to space. UP Aerospace also develops larger suborbital vehicles and collaborates with NASA on orbital launch capabilities. Key partners include NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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The experiment launched on a UP Aerospace sounding rocket from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
The SpaceLoft-XL 18 rocket served as the transportation method for UP Aerospace's mission.
LANL collaborated with UP Aerospace and Spaceport America to conduct space-related tests locally.
UP Aerospace was created in 1998 by Jerry Larson and incorporated in 2004 with headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
UP Aerospace has been successfully conducting sub-orbital space launches from Spaceport America since 2006.
UP Aerospace maintains a launch complex and payload processing center at Spaceport America.
UP Aerospace completed its 23rd suborbital space flight at Spaceport America, carrying a Los Alamos National Laboratory payload to an apogee of roughly 72 miles on November 19, 2025.
UP Aerospace partnered with NASA’s Flight Opportunities program on the SL-15 flight.
UP Aerospace was created in 1998 by founder Jerry Larson and incorporated in 2004 with headquarters located in Denver, Colorado.
UP Aerospace plans to launch Spyder rockets from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia’s Wallops Island.
UP Aerospace has launched the Spaceloft suborbital vehicle 12 times since introducing it in 2007.
UP Aerospace estimates Spyder will require around $10,000,000 in non-recurring engineering to develop, with around half of that already invested.
UP Aerospace plans to seek upgrades to Spyder’s fourth stage to improve orbital insertion accuracy and create a restartable solid-propelled upper stage.
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama is participating in the design of Spyder’s second, third, and fourth stages under a Tipping Point technology development contract awarded to UP Aerospace in 2015.
UP Aerospace and Cesaroni Aerospace are using the Space Propulsion Center to build space launch engines and military-grade solid rocket motors, with Cesaroni taking a larger focus on defense work.
Spyder is a four-stage rocket that UP Aerospace intends to debut in 2021 to carry up to 10 kg of payload to low Earth orbit for $1,000,000 per launch.