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Spaceport America encompasses 18,000 acres and is surrounded by additional land owned by the state of New Mexico, the Bureau of Land Management, and nearby White Sands Missile Range.
Spaceport America has a rocket-friendly environment of 6,000 square miles of restricted airspace.
Nearly 200 people gathered at Spaceport America to witness UP Aerospace's launch.
UP Aerospace maintains a launch complex and payload processing center at Spaceport America.
Spaceport America is the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world.
UP Aerospace has been successfully conducting sub-orbital space launches from Spaceport America since 2006.
Spaceport America is situated on 18,000 acres adjacent to the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico.
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.
New Mexico has seen increasing economic impact from the state-built Spaceport America.
Spaceport America features a 12,000-foot by 200-foot runway and vertical launch complexes.
LANL collaborated with UP Aerospace and Spaceport America to conduct space-related tests locally.
Virgin Galactic’s financial projections disclosed in August envision Spaceport America hosting 275 flights a year using four spaceplanes and two mothership aircraft and generating nearly $1,000,000,000 in annual revenue.
Virgin Galactic is building out an initial fleet of Delta-class suborbital spaceplanes that will operate from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Virgin Galactic announced plans in November to raise $300,000,000 to accelerate development of additional spaceplanes and a mothership aircraft for Spaceport America.
Mandel conducted fieldwork at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
VSS Unity and its mothership VMS Eve took off from Spaceport America at 10:31 a.m. Eastern on 2024-06-08.
VSS Unity released from VMS Eve at 11:26 a.m. Eastern on 2024-06-08 and reached an altitude of 87.5 km before landing back at Spaceport America at 11:41 a.m. Eastern.
Virgin Galactic is considering long-term options to expand operations to other sites in the United States or other countries and to expand at Spaceport America itself.
Spaceport America has added a viewing area for visitors to watch Virgin Galactic flights since the 2021 launches.
The Spaceport America Cup is a nationwide educational event sponsored by the New Mexico Spaceport Authority.