The new proposed commercial spaceport, the first one ever for Georgia, is known as Spaceport Camden.
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In the first frame, Oldman walks out at Spaceport America, a real spaceport in New Mexico.
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But if Spaceport Camden is cleared, officials hope that major structures of the spaceport can be built as soon as possible.
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It'll look to launch from the proposed Sutherland spaceport, which is currently in development and will be Europe's first ever mainland orbital spaceport once complete.
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While this Italian spaceport will eventually provide the infrastructure for future Virgin Galactic suborbital flights, the company will maintain its operational headquarters at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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"We located the spaceport on this big chunk of land below the Department of Defense's restricted airspace" at White Sands missile range, Spaceport America CEO Dan Hicks said.
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" Sundae Month - Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor Original Soundtrack "Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is a game by Sundae Month and published by tinyBuild, available now on Steam and itch.io.
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We were on track to be the busiest spaceport in the world, but the Chinese I think did 34 last year and the Russians had one spaceport that did more than we did.
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Why is Kadara spaceport the worst place in the galaxy?
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The UK has selected the site for its first spaceport.
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The spaceport has diversified its income, renting itself out as a backdrop for several car commercials and the upcoming Gary Oldman film, "The Space Between Us." But Spaceport America continues to run on a deficit.
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I'll get to the spaceport in a minute: Pretty smooth, right?
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And were other people like me drawn to Spaceport as well?
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The trip to Spaceport was something she decided to tack on.
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Most of the time, Bleth says, Spaceport is not in use.
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The new spaceport is a big deal for Ukraine, as well.
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Building a spaceport for launches and returns costs hundreds of millions.
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This is Spaceport America, New Mexico, Earth, ZIP code 903-3210.
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Elon Musk dreams of building a Mars spaceport in South Texas.
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And with more launch sites, like Spaceport Camden in Georgia and the Virgin Galactic spaceport in New Mexico, popping up across remote parts of the US, spills that need to be tidied up could mushroom, too.
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"This is the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, the first spaceport anywhere in the world that was designed from the ground up to be a commercial facility," said William Gutman, vice president of aerospace operations.
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The biggest asset of Brazil's spaceport is its proximity to the equator.
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Since then, Spaceport Camden has even seen its first launch... sort of.
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It's just the second spacecraft to lift off from Russia's newest spaceport.
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But Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor isn't all about a doomed existence.
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But Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor isn't all about a doomed existence.
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is a late addition to this list.
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Caption: The main hangar of Spaceport America as seen through the desert landscape.
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Alcântara boasts a few impressive geographic benefits that are needed for a spaceport.
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The rockets quickly came down where they launched at the Pacific Spaceport Complex.
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In addition to bringing in jobs, the spaceport is expected to draw tourists.
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The launch is scheduled for 296:2104 local time at the Sriharikota spaceport.
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They'll be taking off from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska — date TBD.
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But that require more legislation to let Spaceport America do whatever it wants.
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Why it matters: This launch site is currently the world's only commercial spaceport.
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The THAAD is based at the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska.
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Indeed, Kennedy's transition to a multi-user spaceport was the product of necessity.
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Britain's business ministry estimates the spaceport could generate annual revenue of 3.8 billion pounds.
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But the company's eventual goal is to conduct commercial passenger flights from Spaceport America.
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" Virgin Galactic's only base right now is in New Mexico and called a "spaceport.
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Firefly and Space Florida, the state's spaceport authority, declined to comment, citing confidentiality agreements.
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor hits a similar note with its gender-switching requirements.
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Every single day, people take off from the spaceport to embark on marvelous adventures.
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Virgin Galactic said it will unveil other developments at the spaceport later this year.
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The test is expected to be conducted from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska.
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However, Wallops is not as busy as NASA's other big spaceport, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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And it's no wonder folks will have to fork over that fat price tag: Spaceport America, the 18,000-acre commercial spaceport in New Mexico and the first in the world, cost over $200 million and sapped the state of 108 million taxpayer dollars.
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There are only four doors that behave this way in Kadara's spaceport, out of six.
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Caption: A sculpture called "Genesis" by artist Otto Rigan marks the entrance to Spaceport America.
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Building a "spaceport" near Scotland's northern tip could be regarded as an accident of geography.
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SpaceX then won federal, state, and local approval in July 2014 to build a spaceport.
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Commercial and military missions are also staged at the spaceport, and soldiers patrol the area.
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Historically, the Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska has been more focused on the government launch side.
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Back in 2005, Richard Branson announced that Virgin Galactic's spaceport would be designed by Starck.
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The ESA also develops its own launcher with Arianespace and maintains a spaceport at Kourou.
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In three years of operation, Spaceport America has hosted 28 vertical launches to suborbital space.
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The company on Thursday shared images of the interior at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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On the same sprawling ranch, visitors can observe another Bezos project, the Blue Origin spaceport.
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It is being built adjacent to his private spaceport, inside a mountain that he owns.
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Glory and riches goes to the ruler who builds a spaceport or conquers their rivals.
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Another point of contention is that more commercial spaceports have been getting licenses to launch space-bound vehicles throughout the US. One such spaceport that's scared the aviation crowd is a Colorado-based airport and spaceport five miles outside of the Denver International Airport.
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"From early on, we knew that the gameplay would be really simple, so we wanted most of the game's 'content' to be in the aliens walking around the spaceport, the world itself, and of course the trash & items for sale around the spaceport," Shasha explained.
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It played a continuous loop of career opportunities at Spaceport: brush clearer, general maintenance technician, firefighter.
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Turning Boca Chica into a private spaceport was a dream of Musk's as early as 2011.
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Currently, Virgin Galactic's space tourism flights return to the same spaceport from which they take off.
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If a primo day opens up, InSight can't have other peoples' rockets clogging up the spaceport.
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Russian space agency Roscosmos has launched the first rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome, the country's newest spaceport.
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The test was carried out at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, as spaceport in the west of Russia.
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Virgin Galactic is 'coming home' to Spaceport America in New Mexico But the spaceport itself must also become a place for humans to arrive, park at, nervously sip coffee and have a pre-flight meal — if that's really a good idea for your first trip to space.
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The problem is, Kadara's spaceport is a hub of sorts for your missions on the planet below.
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Iridium 33 was owned by an American firm but it was launched from a Russian-owned spaceport.
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They do share a few laughs with me about the emptiness of Spaceport, the lack of activity.
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Kodiak Island, where the Pacific Spaceport Complex sits, is called the "emerald isle" for its lush greenery.
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In a joint venture with several US firms, Maritime Launch Services (MLS) is building Canada's first spaceport.
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The test is scheduled to take place at ESA's South American spaceport, located in Kourou, French Guiana.
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It then glided back to the the spaceport for a smooth landing, like the Shuttle used to.
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According to Virgin Galactic, passengers will prepare for three days at Spaceport America prior to the flight.
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Reporting by Julio-Cesar Chavez in Spaceport America, New Mexico, Editing by Ben Klayman and Marguerita Choy
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SpaceX gained permission to build out a commercial spaceport in the Boca Chica area in July 2014.
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"Galaxy's Edge," which opened on Thursday, is set in Batuu — a spaceport in the "Star Wars" universe.
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The THAAD system in Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak then detected, tracked and intercepted the target.
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New details about SpaceX's quest to build a spaceport at the site of a small Texas community
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Vector Space Systems on Thursday flight tested its Vector-R launch vehicle from Spaceport Camden in Georgia.
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Mahoney and I talked over a meal at the Voyager Restaurant, on the grounds of the spaceport.
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Called Spaceport America, the shiny new facility features runways and a cavernous room for spaceships to park.
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It could complete its first orbital test this year, from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska.
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Earlier this year Britain announced plans to build its first spaceport for launching satellites at Sutherland in Scotland.
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The spaceport is still very new, though, so there isn't much equipment on the ground to support launches.
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That was the promise to the taxpayers of New Mexico back in 2009 when Spaceport America broke ground.
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One idea for the Spaceport is to have it function as more of an entertainment or conference center.
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Space Florida, the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority, and the New Mexico Spaceport Authority are all currently operational.
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Sending things to space is theoretically what happens at a spaceport, though business has been less than bustling.
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Meanwhile, Spaceport America offers programs such as interactive exhibits, a g-force simulator and launch videos for enthusiasts.
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The Russians lose face when someone like me breaks into their top-secret spaceport on a folding bike.
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It simulates the daily struggle of a street cleaner at an alien spaceport that loops around on itself.
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Prior to the company Raycho founded massive space educational platform – Spaceport and practice-oriented space course – Space Challenges.
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Sometimes that place involves having very little money, no spaceship, and being stuck in a spaceport on Mars.
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Modern couches line the floor-to-ceiling windows at the spaceport with panoramic views of the surrounding desert.
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Russia isn't limited to Baikonur — it built the Plesetsk spaceport in the 1950s, which is in the northwestern region of the country, and it has launch access at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana — but a new spaceport would "guarantee Russia full independence of space activities," Putin said in 2010.
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He and his wife had an extra day on their vacation, and he thought it important to see Spaceport.
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We get back on the bus for the trip home and an onboard video about the future of Spaceport.
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At first, the October 11, 2018 launch from the Baikonur spaceport in southern Kazakhstan seemed to be going smoothly.
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The goal: Make way for developing a potentially world-changing spacecraft called Starship and, eventually, build a Mars spaceport.
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The Sentinel-1B satellite was launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on April 25th.
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Today's launch also marks the first rocket flight ever out of Camden Spaceport, located near the coast of Georgia.
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It's also the place where SpaceX, founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is building out a next-generation spaceport.
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The organization's support for SpaceX could extend beyond managing a trust fund for the company's ongoing spaceport project, though.
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The group chaired by Serafy has held eminent-domain authority for "spaceport development" since it was created in 2013.
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SpaceX got approval in July 2014 to build a commercial spaceport and launch orbital-class rockets from the area.
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SpaceX is hoping Starship, its experimental rocket, will eventually take humans to Mars from its spaceport in southern Texas.
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Their upper stage had failed during the Spaceport demonstration and the team had spent all summer working on improvements.
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Soon the team will head to the Pacific Spaceport Complex, on Alaska's Kodiak Island, for its first orbital launch.
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And she consulted on the design of Spaceport America, built in New Mexico by the spaceflight company Virgin Galactic.
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SpaceX Village may feature 100 bookable rooms, kayaking outings, a rock-climbing wall, volleyball tournaments, and spaceport lounge parties.
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The residents of Truth or Consequences approved an extra tax to help fund the spaceport over the last decade.
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To visit Spaceport America, we had to travel through Truth or Consequences — nicknamed T or C by its residents.
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The THAAD weapon system located at Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, detected, tracked and intercepted the target.
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And so, thanks to the garbage spaceport and its garbage doors, Kadara is the worst planet in Mass Effect: Andromeda.
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Since then, the company has started its long-awaited move to its new launch facility in New Mexico, Spaceport America.
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And then when the team is ready, they'll shift to Virgin Galactic's spaceport in New Mexico ahead of commercial operations.
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Today's spaceport decision will enable it to expand testing and development work in an effort to ramp up payload flights.
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It coasted to 84,000 feet before gliding down again for a safe landing at the company's spaceport back in Mojave.
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Virgin Galactic says the goal is to build an entirely new spaceplane that will remain at the Grottaglie Spaceport indefinitely.
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The other two sites include Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, as well as the Pacific Spaceport Complex in southern Alaska.
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ADEPT, launched with a Spaceloft suborbital rocket made by UP Aerospace, was tested at the spaceport in southern New Mexico.
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Camden Spaceport will help create the Georgia Space Coast, says Steve Howard, the proposed project's lead and the county administrator.
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This time, however, the landing target is a drone ship at sea, not a ground-based spaceport like in December.
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Exploration Park is conveniently located nearby Launch Complex 36, a spaceport that Blue Origin is currently leasing at the cape.
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Brazilian officials are hoping to complete a U.S. TSA this year that would facilitate the opening of the commercial spaceport.
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Rocket company Vector will conduct three commercial missions from Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops launch center.
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But otherwise, America's Space Coast is incredibly lucky and the busy spaceport may be ready to launch rockets again soon.
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On April 6th, China's SJ-10 satellite will launch into orbit from the remote Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi desert.
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But the Cameron County Spaceport Development Corporation, a nonprofit created in 2013 to support the company, has eminent-domain authority.
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The spaceport will shut down at 6pm on Saturday, Kennedy Space Center spokesperson Amanda Griffin told Motherboard in an email.
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But it's still unclear what kind of destination Spaceport America will become and how it will impact the surrounding communities.
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For whatever reason, the half-second process of opening a door takes closer to five seconds in Kadara's spaceport. Five. Seconds.
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So we pay attention to the roads and bridges and freight logistics system doesn't support the spaceport in an economic sense.
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Space correspondent Dave Mosher has details from deep inside Boca Chica, Texas, where SpaceX is continuing development of its Mars spaceport.
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We need to finish the move down to Spaceport America before we begin the last phase of our test flight program.
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The company's next step is to start actually launching from its new spaceport and HQ, something it says will happen soon.
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Eventually, VSS Unity will move to its new home at Spaceport America in New Mexico where commercial flights will take place.
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And yet, despite being completed for nearly five years, Spaceport America hasn't sent any space tourists up to the heavens yet.
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Russia says it has lost contact with the Meteor-M weather satellite launched early this morning from its new Vostochny spaceport.
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A direct hit by a Category 3 or 4 monster is a nightmare scenario for NASA's crown-jewel, $11 billion spaceport.
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It will incorporate a Russian-led surface platform and European-led rover, to be launched from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.
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His audience has gathered to celebrate the FAA's recent approval of a new Colorado spaceport, located a mile above sea level.
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Dale Nash, CEO and executive director of Virginia Space, told CNBC that Cantrell's rapid cadence vision is possible from his spaceport.
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Revenue should rise to 90 percent of expenses next year, and the spaceport hopes to be cash flow positive by 2018.
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Meanwhile, Musk has boasted that the BFR will begin suborbital testing next year at his new spaceport near Boca Chica, Texas.
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Texas law makes available broad authority to any spaceport development corporation to start an eminent-domain process and condemn private properties.
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Cornwall, Britain's southwestern tip, also receives significant European funding, including money seen as crucial to the development of a British spaceport.
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Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 25 April at 21:02 GMT.
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It amounted to around $375, and I immediately traveled to the spaceport and spent most of it on renting a ship.
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But one of the more interesting subjects focused on whether we're already spaceport-saturated — or, conversely, in urgent need of more.
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On Friday from a spaceport in Kazakhstan, OneWeb, a telecommunications company with its headquarters in London, launched 34 satellites into space.
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, The Stillness of the Wind — the examples are numerous, and many of them are quite recent.
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Illustration of World View spaceport / Image courtesy of World View Illustration of World View spaceport / Image courtesy of World View While the company is currently focusing on accelerating the development of Stratollite, they noted that the Voyager high altitude system used for their World View Experience shares many of the same technologies and will be developed in parallel.
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At a welcome center, I sign in with an elderly woman behind the counter who wears a blue Spaceport America flight suit.
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It's easy to look at something like Spaceport and think it's just a 21st-century version of a railroad spur to nowhere.
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He expects there will be three more test flights before the Virgin Galactic moves its operations to Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Still, the fact that the facility received a commercial spaceport license at all in 2018 did not sit well with the industry.
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"We do like to think ahead," says Pinkerton, who says there are concerns of what could be developed for the spaceport someday.
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The backdrop: Spaceport America, which cost New Mexico taxpayers $220 million, stood vacant for years as Virgin troubleshot issues with test flights.
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor Austin covered this beautifully in his own list, and I agree with his reasons for enjoying it.
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If all proceeds as planned with Spaceport Cornwall, the company hopes to be launching payloads from the location as early as 2021.
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The latest documents covers SpaceX's shift away from developing a commercial spaceport and confronts its new reality as a skunkworks for Starship.
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The company, however, built its experimental spaceport in and around Boca Chica Village, a decades-old community of about 20 elderly residents.
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Alice is suddenly an old woman, and then she's dead, and then her great grandson is running a small spaceport on Venus.
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" Han Solo was therefore quite at home at Mos Eisley Spaceport, which Obi-Wan called a "wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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Almost half the film dwells in a desert region of Kazakhstan, near the site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world's first spaceport.
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Visiting Origin's website to shop for a PC is like walking into a sleek spaceport with merchants from all over the galaxy.
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The first orbital flight of the Vector-R was originally scheduled for the summer of 2018 out of Alaska's Pacific Spaceport Complex.
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Instead, the storm passed tens of miles offshore and only dealt minor damage to the spaceport and Cape Canaveral's Air Force base.
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Even those who use Department of Defense airspace, like Spaceport America, believe the FAA is guiding the industry in the right direction.
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The first is on the flashing lights at the spaceport, and the second is on a back window when you're returning home.
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It's been 15 years since the project got started, and no people have have actually gone to space from the spaceport yet.
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Still, the company is moving quickly to convert its nascent launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, into a full-fledged private spaceport.
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You're not supposed to think about the doors in this game, but Kadara spaceport forces you to do so. Every. Time. You. Visit.
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As our little bus chugs out of town for the 40-minute drive to Spaceport, Bleth tells us to look out the window.
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For one, anyone who knows Mos Eisley spaceport as well as a guy like Han Solo should realize that looks can be deceiving.
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The irony of this spaceport, dubbed the Colorado Air and Space Port, is that no space vehicle can currently launch from the site.
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Virgin Galactic has testing facilities in California's Mojave Desert and an agreement with Spaceport America in New Mexico for the first commercial flights.
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Texas-based spaceflight company Firefly Aerospace is moving into a new launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida — the location of US's premier spaceport.
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Eventually, the company will move to a new location in New Mexico called Spaceport America where it will conduct its future commercial flights.
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Virgin Galactic signed a joint agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration in 2014, allowing the company to conduct commercial flights from the spaceport.
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SpaceX's most vocal holdouts in South Texas are selling their homes to Elon Musk's rocket company to make way for a Mars spaceport
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Depending on how successful space tourism gets, Virgin Galactic will need at least one spaceport on each continent to attract local space tourists.
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Camden County, which the spaceport is named after, is currently working to get the site licensed for launches by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Aerospace technology is already Georgia's biggest export, but a spaceport could help bring even more spaceflight business and educational opportunities to the area.
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Still, regardless of who creates them, the announcement of shifting autonomous vehicle and spaceport legislation is good news for the UK.[Guardian, Bloomberg]
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Along with the vertical launch site in Sutherland, the government is also putting aside money for a "horizontal" spaceport elsewhere in the country.
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Unfortunately, Spaceport America and billionaire business tycoon Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic have not produced the boon in jobs and money that they promised.
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From the Albuquerque Journal:In the past few years, the spaceport has gotten about $462,000 annually from the Legislature to help fund operations. Gov.
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The spaceport is being built with the hope that the UK can grab a slice of the growing market for small satellite launches.
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If that unfortunate prediction comes true, it'll be the worst storm to hit the iconic Florida spaceport since it was built in 1962.
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At the inaugural spaceport event—the result of Ruppel's and others' six-year slog through the FAA application process—others echoed this idea.
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The initial plan was to launch commercial Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rockets about once a month from a robust south Texas spaceport.
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The first of three Electron test flights is expected within the next few weeks from a newly built commercial spaceport in New Zealand.
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"The first time we showed the spaceport to people outside our group, the first thing they wanted was a mini-map,"Horton said.
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Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is wholly concerned with the effects of the endless city on its denizens, specifically the marginalized working class.
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He commanded the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida, and led operations for the busiest spaceport in the world.
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"The first time we showed the spaceport to people outside our group, the first thing they wanted was a mini-map," Horton said.
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At the 23rd annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference, a group of spaceport operators gathered to discuss their role in the space economy.
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Firefly also took over a launch site at the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida, though it has yet to launch its first rocket.
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The Verge Science team had come to Spaceport America to get an idea of what those customers will experience in the years ahead.
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The combo BepiColombo spacecraft is set to go up tonight on an Ariane 5 rocket out of Europe's South American spaceport in French Guiana.
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For now, SpaceX is storing its returned rockets at Launch Complex 39A — a spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida that the company leases from NASA.
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Each of these requires special construction projects, with the final step demanding three components that can only be built in cities with a spaceport.
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Afterward, the rocket will try to land on a drone ship at sea — not at a land-based spaceport like it did in December.
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SpaceX has been storing its landed rockets in a hangar at Launch Complex 39A, a spaceport the company leases from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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"You have to basically apply for a new license" if an operator makes a change like switching launch pads at a spaceport, Shotwell said.
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The spaceport covers 27 square miles of state land, built at a cost of $220 million from New Mexico taxpayers betting on the future.
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Everyone stood up, and Musk shook their hands, then he started speaking about why SpaceX picked Boca Chica to be the company's private spaceport.
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When it got approval in July 2014, the rocket company said it'd build a commercial spaceport to launch Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
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On September 17, 2018, the temperature at Spaceport would reach a toasty 94 degrees, an especially hot start to autumn even for New Mexico.
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More tests are planned before the company will move operations down to New Mexico's Spaceport America and take up its first load of tourists.
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"We're fulfilling the commitment that we made years ago to bring an operational spaceline to the world's first purpose-built spaceport," he told me.
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The spaceport has been ready for some time, too, at least the difficult parts like the runway, fuel infrastructure, communications equipment and so on.
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Vector had signed a deal to launch flights out of Virginia's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, and was looking at other possible locations, as well.
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Employees at the spaceport are used to bracing for hurricanes, and they have already started moving some key hardware to safety before Dorian arrives.
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Before that happens Virgin Galactic will move its spacecraft Unity to the company's spaceport in New Mexico from its testing facility in Mojave, California.
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Virgin Galactic has testing facilities in California's Mojave Desert and has an agreement with Spaceport America in New Mexico for the first commercial flights.
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency said earlier this week that it the THAAD test would be conducted from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska.
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Now the company has started to move into Spaceport America after spending more than a decade at the company's test site in Mojave, California.
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Rocket Lab confirmed that it is evaluating the opportunity to launch from the Melness spaceport, noting the previous investment it received from Lockheed Martin.
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Several municipalities across the U.K. are trying to attract investment to host a spaceport, with the organization in Melness earning this batch of investment.
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And just as the railroad opened up this vast nothingness of America for commercial use, so will Spaceport help open space for America's commercial use.
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SpaceX is building a Starship rocket-development site and future Mars spaceport in Boca Chica, a remote beach area at the southern tip of Texas.
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For a while, the Spaceport Camden initiative was just a promising idea, but now the state of Georgia has shown it's serious about the project.
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Located at the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan, the hanger that the group would have to infiltrate is abandoned but the base is still active.
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The goal would be to have the spaceport up and running sometime in the early 2020s, which is not too far away, considering it's 2019.
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One thing I really like about how we've structured Alaska Aerospace and Kodiak spaceport is, we follow the regulations and are licensed by the FAA.
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The brand, a longstanding collaboration between Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto, unveiled the super-sleek, all-black pieces today at New Mexico's Spaceport America (pictured above).
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"You have to basically apply for a new license" if an operator makes a change such as switching launch pads at a spaceport, Shotwell said.
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The remote strip of land is at the southeastern tip of the state, and it's where SpaceX is building a private launch site and spaceport.
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The company, founded by Elon Musk, built its experimental spaceport in and around a residential neighborhood of a few dozen houses called Boca Chica Village.
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The chair of the spaceport corporation says starting a condemnation process "hasn't really been discussed" but that he'd "be willing to explore it," if necessary.
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However, Boca Chica Village — a hamlet where about 20 people live — now finds itself in the middle of SpaceX's expanding industrial site and future spaceport.
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Nine minutes after takeoff, the rocket's main section touched down on a landing pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just south of NASA's spaceport.
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""SpaceX Village" may have 100 electronically bookable rooms and regularly planned activities, such as volleyball tournaments, rock climbing, kayaking, and "spaceport lounge events and parties.
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Space Adventures said the mission would last five days and is expected to launch between "late-2021 to mid-2022" from Florida's Cape Canaveral spaceport.
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About 40 miles outside of the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, I was looking for a spaceport in the middle of a desert.
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Most of the crew has been on site at Spaceport Tucson since 2 AM preparing for World View's twelfth and final launch of the year.
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Today, we are the Spaceport Thirteen—we who have come to ride a bus into the desert and learn what awaits us very soon in space.
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"We don't think it makes sense to license a spaceport without really understanding the potential for the operations that are coming out of there," says Pinkerton.
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About a dozen homeowners in South Texas' Boca Chica Village neighborhood have not sold their properties to SpaceX to make way for a planned Starship spaceport.
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Image: NASA/Sandra Joseph and Kevin O'ConnellHalifax-based Maritime Launch Services has confirmed its plans to build a $148-million rocket spaceport near Canso, Nova Scotia.
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A PSLV lifts off (Image: ISRO)Tomorrow, a four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will blast off from India's southern spaceport with 104 satellites on board.
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It didn't work as planned and, according to officials at the time, the rocket made a "hard landing" around the Spaceport America property in New Mexico.
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The two partners are supposed to work with Virgin Galactic to come up with a framework for how spaceflights will be conducted from the Grottaglie Spaceport.
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"Center Director Bob Cabana joined the center's Damage Assessment and Recovery Team for a survey of the spaceport Tuesday," the government agency explained in the post.
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The Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska, located on Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, has traditionally launched one or two military and NASA payloads per year.
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The project, called SkyBender, involves several prototype transceivers and multiple drones, which are housed at Virgin Galactic's Gateway to Space terminal in New Mexico's Spaceport America.
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Brazil wants to attract customers by marketing itself as the cheaper alternative to Kourou, the European spaceport in neighboring French Guiana, which mostly launches big satellites.
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Formerly home to the largest Soviet nuclear testing ground in Semipalatinsk and a spaceport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan also hosted a massive GULAG labor camps under Stalin.
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Authorities at the spaceport have worked with the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range to the east for access to airspace not used by commercial airlines.
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By May 2018, Musk said that SpaceX was dropping its commercial-spaceport plan and instead dedicating the site to building and flying Mars rocket-ship prototypes.
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Southern Texas is a logical — and cost-effective — place for a private spaceportBut it turns out putting a spaceport in this spot can save SpaceX money.
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Only a few months before BALLS, the Oregon State team had demoed this same rocket at Spaceport America in New Mexico during a collegiate rocketry competition.
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On Friday morning, the spaceport will enter "HURCON III" status, which prompts officials to begin hurricane preparations in anticipation of 60 mph winds within 48 hours.
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Last May, SpinLaunch broke ground at New Mexico's Spaceport America, where it is now building a centrifuge three times larger than the one in Los Angeles.
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For the past few months, Hampton and about two dozen other employees have lived near the spaceport in a makeshift company town made of shipping containers.
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A senior executive at SpaceX is going door-to-door in South Texas to convince people to move out of the rocket company's planned Mars spaceport
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Virgin Galactic signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Arab Emirates space agency in March that aims to set up a spaceport in the country.
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The VSS Unity was shown off today at a special ceremony at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California, where Virgin Galactic conducts its flight tests.
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Located at Cape Canaveral on Florida's east coast, KSC is NASA's biggest spaceport, supporting all of the agency's past human spaceflight missions and many commercial satellite launches.
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On Tuesday, the Trump administration signed a preliminary agreement with Brazil that could one day lead to US rockets launching from the South American country's coastal spaceport.
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The BepiColombo mission, only the third ever to visit Mercury, blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 10:45 p.m.
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By July 2014, the company gained approval from local, state, and federal authorities to proceed with a spaceport, and in September of that year, Musk, then-Gov.
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SpaceX is permitted to close Highway 4 — the only road out to Boca Chica Beach, which runs through the planned spaceport — three times a month, on average.
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Spaceport Camden is strategically located on the coast, which would allow rockets to launch east over mostly open ocean, posing little risk to populated areas on land.
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Virgin Galactic announced on Friday that it will finally move operations from its Mojave facilities to the New Mexico launch site Spaceport America, the Washington Post reports.
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Virgin plans to use the spaceport to fulfill one of its ultimate visions: carrying tourists to space for tickets that reportedly cost up to $250,000 a piece.
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The only issue with the spaceport, both leaders noted, is the difficulty of using it to launch vehicles into polar orbits, which are necessary for some satellites.
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The craft, part of the ExoMars program, blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on board a Proton rocket, starting a seven-month journey through space.
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In August, Virgin Galactic debuted the design of its lavish lounge at the Virgin Galactic Spaceport in New Mexico, where travelers will wait before boarding the spacecraft.
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Officials from the Department of Homeland Security interviewed him about the incident because it was at a spaceport, Wagoner said, but did not file any federal charges.
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If there is one thing that Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor absolutely understands, it's the crushing weight of uncertainty and instability that working-class living brings about.
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Hurricane Dorian is slowly making its way toward the eastern coast of Florida, prompting NASA's premier spaceport, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), to prep for the coming storm.
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" Nield noted there is no generally accepted definition of what a spaceport is, saying "they're not all the same and are often very different kinds of operations.
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Called CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), the telescope was due to be launched aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou in French Guiana early Tuesday.
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The THAAD missile defense system stationed at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska tracked the launch and sent out its own missile to destroy the dummy target.
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That's what you learn—if you read closely—inside the New Mexico Museum of Space History, a small building located in Alamogordo, approximately 100 miles from Spaceport America.
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Grants worth £10 million are being made available to businesses developing spaceflight capabilities, such as spaceport infrastructure and space craft technology, for use within the U.K. by 2020.
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Musk's rocket company SpaceX is building a Starship rocket-development site and future Mars spaceport in Boca Chica, a remote beach area at the southern tip of Texas.
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"When SpaceX first identified Cameron County as a potential spaceport location, we did not anticipate that local residents would experience significant disruption from our presence," the letter read.
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America's busiest spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is about to get a new tenant: a startup that shares SpaceX's ambitious plans of turning humans into a multiplanetary species.
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Buzz: 700 people have already signed up to grab up to $250,000 tickets to be flown 50 miles from the New Mexico spaceport to the edge of space.
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But RRL had trouble coming up with the cash The league started building hangars near Las Cruces, New Mexico—adjacent to Diamandis' pal Richard Branson's Spaceport America complex.
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Passengers will prepare for three days at New Mexico's Spaceport America prior to the flight, and the whole thing will be filmed for each "astronaut" as a memento.
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The spaceport will be constructed by Canadian companies and will provide several dozen long-term jobs to Nova Scotians, not to mention an exciting new avenue for tourism.
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Yesterday, Virgin Galactic showed off its new SpaceShipTwo vehicle, called the VSS Unity, in a flashy and slightly absurd ceremony at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California.
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The idea is to further open up Kennedy Space Center as a public and private spaceport, where NASA and commercial companies can both build and launch their vehicles.
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An ongoing collaboration between adidas and designer Yohji Yamamoto, Y-3 revealed prototypes of its flight suit and boots at Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America terminal in New Mexico.
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"When SpaceX first identified Cameron County as a potential spaceport location, we did not anticipate that local residents would experience significant disruption from our presence," the letter said.
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At the time, the company and the county agreed the area was supposed to be a commercial spaceport that launched about 12 missions a year with existing rockets.
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The deal, signed at the Farnborough Airshow in England, will see Cosmic Girl planes take to the skies from a spaceport at Newquay Airport in Cornwall, southwest England.
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Next up for Astra in terms of key milestones is a launch planned for February 21 from Kodiak, Alaska — an island spaceport owned and operated by Alaska Aerospace.
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Despite the planned transformation of the Boca Chica site into a Mars spaceport, Pearce said SpaceX told him the company had no intention of bulldozing his old place.
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Hazzaa al-Mansoori, a former Emirati F-19853 pilot, launched for the International Space Station in a Soyuz space capsule from a Russian spaceport in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
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Virgin Orbit sealed a deal with the UKSA to launch its LauncherOne rocket from Cosmic Girl, taking off from a spaceport at Newquay Airport in Cornwall, southwest England.
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The partnership with Spaceport Cornwall expects to launch its first rocket by 2021, which would be the first to ever conduct commercial flights to space from British soil.
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A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Test THAAD (FTT)-18 on July 11, 2017.
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Each story follows a different resident of a small spaceport: there's the cyborg bartender Xi, the shape-shifting robot Viola, and the cold-blooded corporate leader Ava, among others.
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"Sometimes rockets don't perform as everyone fully expects," Mark Lester, president & CEO of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation, which owns and operates the spaceport, says of the Astra launch failures.
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Lester says that the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska did consider another option: using plants and microbes in the soil to break down large chain hydrocarbon molecules in kerosene.
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That's according to the company's environmental-impact statement, a document that regulators required before the company could begin building out a spaceport, and its original agreement with Cameron County.
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The high altitude balloon company World View Enterprises reached an important milestone today, when Arizona's Pima County voted to award them a $22018 million deal to build a spaceport.
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This would be one of the few locations in the world that would serve as both an active airport and spaceport, accommodating airplane launches and rocket launches in tandem.
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Lawmakers were promised that if they helped finance a new spaceport in the middle of the desert, they'd attract millions of dollars in the burgeoning field of space tourism.
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One of Richard Branson's space companies (yes, he has more than one) is looking to bring satellite launches to British soil, with a new Virgin Spaceport based in Cornwall.
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Virgin Galactic unveiled the look of its new flight suits at Spaceport America in New Mexico Thursday, announced as a collaboration with Adidas' high-end sportswear brand Y-3.
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The director of the Missile Defense Agency, Lieutenant General Sam Greaves, said in a statement that a test would be carried out at the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska.
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Most startups would be hard-pressed to establish an operational spaceport in such a short timeframe with an estimated investment of $226 million, which is extremely low for spaceflight.
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It reminded me of Space Funeral on a few occasions, with a little touch of Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor in others—both very good things, for my money.
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The company originally agreed to build a commercial spaceport by spending about $100 million on the effort, including some $15 million worth of incentives from county and state governments.
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For a couple of years now Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America was more aspirational than functional, but now it's been built out with the necessaries for commercial spaceflight — mainly coffee.
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South Texas has become a mecca for fans of SpaceXSpaceX built and launched Starhopper earlier this year at its rapidly evolving spaceport at the southern tip of the state.
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However, the Cameron County Spaceport Development Corporation, which was created to support SpaceX, has eminent-domain authority and can, with the vote of local commissioners, initiate a condemnation process.
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But the rocket lifted off from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on a tongue of flame and flew into space without a hitch, live video of the launch showed.
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As another Soyuz space rocket prepares to send a new batch of astronauts to the International Space Station, a photographer takes us inside the world's oldest and largest spaceport.
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They allow licenses to transfer from one spaceport to another, and the rules are meant to be applied more broadly to all types of vehicles that go to space.
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Company officials now say, with increasing confidence, that next year Mr. Branson will finally get his ride on his space plane, taking off from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Last year, a game called Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor imagined the daily grind of a trash collector living hand-to-mouth on the fringes of an alien society.
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Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab unveiled the company's second launch site this morning — a just-finished pad built at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia.
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The spaceport embodies the future of aviation and spaceflight, with reflective surfaces everywhere, a swanky cappuccino bar, and an LED walkway that lights up whenever you step on it.
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I'm not saying I pulled a full-on Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, sculpting my wife's mashed potatoes into a scale model of the Spaceport facility.
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Space Florida plans to give Firefly up to $18.9 million, using funds from the Florida Department of Transportation Spaceport Improvement Program, which helps to stimulate investment in private sector initiative.
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We care about the flow of utilities to the space board, whether it be through pipeline or on trucks, because all of that impacts the region that surrounds the spaceport.
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The Vostochny spaceport, the first civilian rocket launch site on Russian territory, is intended to phase out Russia's reliance on the Baikonur cosmodrome, which it leases from ex-Soviet Kazakhstan.
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The December mission also marked the first from SpaceX using a landing pad at Cape Canaveral––previously the company used floating autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) to recover the rockets.
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On Tuesday, Maritime Launch Services Ltd (MLS), an American-run company founded in 2016, announced plans to build a commercial spaceport in the Canso-Hazel Hill area of Nova Scotia.
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Spanish for "Journey of the Dead Man," this basin where Spaceport America sits in the New Mexico desert looks more like Mars at this hour than our own home planet.
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It takes a small village to raise a Mars rocket — or at least it does in South Texas, where SpaceX has built an experimental spaceport around a community of residents.
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Aspiring space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic has just announced its readiness to shift its operations to New Mexico's Spaceport America, from which the company's first commercial flights will take off.
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The renovations are another sign that Virgin Galactic is preparing to open for business at Spaceport America, a controversial facility that was built a decade ago using local taxpayer dollars.
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" Chris Johnson, an MDA spokesman, said the THAAD weapon system at the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, would "detect, track and engage a target with a THAAD interceptor.
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The restricted airspace edge Some spaceports use adjacent restricted, remote airspace as a competitive advantage, such as Mojave Air and Space Port in California and Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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And my entire team is looking forward to further test flights in the near future as we move steadily toward a full commercial passenger service from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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To deal with the contamination in Alaska, New Scientist reports that the dirty soil at Pacific Spaceport was heated up to nearly 600 degrees Fahrenheit in order to vaporize residual hydrocarbons.
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And in south Texas, SpaceX is accelerating its quest to build out its Mars spaceport, but some homeowners in the hamlet known as Boca Chica have something to say about it.
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Last week, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that Vector would be conducting its first three commercial missions from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a launch site at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
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Companies that want to launch from a site overseen by the federal government have a different set of specific rules they have to follow than companies launching from a private spaceport.
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Virgin Orbit announced a deal to build a new Spaceport in Cornwall, from which its modified 747 launch aircraft will take off, with a target open date of early next decade.
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And since it's a new spaceport, neither NASA nor the European Space Agency have any of the infrastructure in place that typically facilitates the live streams we've become so accustomed to.
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Since the 2011 retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet, based mainly out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, Baikonur has been the sole spaceport on Earth equipped to transport humans to the ISS.
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It was the first spaceport ever built, and was the origin point of some of the most famous space missions in history; both Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin blasted off from Baikonur.
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HyperSciences put its vision to the test at Spaceport America, conducting a series of high altitude tests at the desolate launch site an hour outside of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
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Today, Adidas revealed that its Y-3 brand will be working with Virgin Galactic to design not only the astronaut pilot's flight-suits, but the outfits for everyone at Spaceport America.
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The Gateway Foundation, which was formed specifically to establish a commercial spaceport, is currently designing the first space hotel, set to be named Von Braun Rotating Space Station, according to Dezeen.
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Yaney and his colleagues recently broke ground on a facility at Spaceport America, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they expect to begin flight tests by the end of next year.
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Russia's military carried out the test of the Sarmat missile system at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a spaceport in western Russia, while Russian intelligence tweeted out a video of the successful test.
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The presence of the Falcon outside instead of at the Mos Eisley spaceport suggests either this isn't Luke's escape from Tatooine or the game doesn't adhere to exactly how the movies went.
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They entertained "exciting offers" from Florida and New Mexico, she said, but it was this facility, with co-located spaceport and manufacturing, along with proximity to the airport, that made it happen.
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A report done by space consulting firm Astralytical found that Spaceport Camden could be a great home for businesses that not only launch from the site, but also design their vehicles there.
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Camden County officials have been vying recently to turn the site into a commercial spaceport, and in May, the Georgia state government passed legislation to help foster the growth of the site.
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The plan is to eventually conduct flights of Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane from Italy's future Grottaglie Spaceport, which will be located at an airport on the heel of the country's famous boot.
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SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico (Reuters) - The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched and tested a new umbrella-like heat shield on Wednesday, opening the door to landing humans on Mars.
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Vostochny is supposed to help Russia become less dependent on the spaceport in Kazakhstan But when the Soviet Union collapsed, the million square miles around Baikonur became the independent Republic of Kazakhstan.
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The Sentinel-103B satellite, part of a system of satellites that is to monitor Earth, blasted off on board a Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana at 8:49 p.m.
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The main engines on the vehicle, called the Antares, were ignited for 30 seconds as the rocket was held down on a launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
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An Ariane 5 heavy-launcher rocket had been due to take off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana, carrying satellite Intelsat 37e for Intelsat and BSAT-4a for manufacturer Space Systems Loral.
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Virgin Orbit has been putting together funding and securing regulatory approvals to establish the new launch site, which will be called Spaceport Cornwall and which will be part of Cornwall Airport Newquay.
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As first reported by Business Insider, SpaceX — citing safety issues and increasing disruptions — recently offered to privately buy out the owners of about 35 residences amid its spaceport in a small neighborhood.
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The plan isn't exactly a surprise, since Virgin Galactic and New Mexico collaborated on the creation of the spaceport, which at present is the only thing of its kind in the world.
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Look inside Virgin Galactic's shiny new Spaceport America The money came through through Boeing's HorizonX Ventures, which has previously invested in some rather smaller scale aerospace startups, like Accion Systems and Matternet.
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Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, is building a private spaceport at the southern tip of Texas, but the location features a small neighborhood of retiree-age homeowners called Boca Chica Village.
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The next day, I return to Truth or Consequences and find myself sitting in a coffee shop, nursing my growing disillusionment, when I meet two people who were on that morning's Spaceport tour.
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Right now, Virgin Galactic has put a slight pause on flight tests as the company transitions from its test facility in Mojave, California, to its permanent home at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Built through partnerships with private companies, the area could become the first exclusively commercial spaceport on the East Coast; the others in Florida and Virginia are operated by or associated with federal agencies.
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The Guardian points out that the bill is expected to bring about new legislation for self-driving cars and drones, as well as ushering in the possibility for the UK's first commercial spaceport.
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The launch in the video took place from Spaceport America in New Mexico on November 6, 2015, with a 20-foot tall SpaceLoft-10 sounding rocket from Colorado-based launch provider UP Aerospace.
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In 2013, M. Brian Barnett, a space communications expert and entrepreneur, led a team that sent text messages from Spaceport America to an UP Aerospace spacecraft more than 72 miles above the ground.
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Spaceport America was built about a decade ago by officials in New Mexico mostly using local taxpayer dollars — and it's been waiting for Virgin Galactic, its anchor tenant, to move in ever since.
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He said 5G technology, the Boeing Co acquisition of the civilian wing of Brazilian planemaker Embraer and launches from Brazil's Alcantara spaceport were discussed, although not Brazilian beef exports to the United States.
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With Spaceport America, Virgin Galactic and the state of New Mexico are trying to capture some of the energy that central Florida gets every time there's an important launch out of Cape Canaveral.
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"I think we have the opportunity to build the first exclusive non-federal range on the East Coast," Steve Howard, the Camden County administrator and head of the Spaceport Camden initiative, tells The Verge.
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In October 2012, just a few days before Hurricane Sandy slammed into New Jersey, it was churning north past the narrow strip of white sand beach separating NASA's most celebrated spaceport from the sea.
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Virgin Galactic's new SpaceShipTwo, named Unity because of an idea from cosmologist Stephen Hawking, rolled out in the company's hangar at the Mojave Air and Spaceport as ticket holders, press and VIPs looked on.
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Google is working in secret at a spaceport in New Mexico to build and test solar-powered internet drones in a new initiative codenamed Project SkyBender, according to a report from The Guardian today.
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It's also paying Virgin Galactic about $1,000 a day to use its hanger, as well as an additional $300,000 to Spaceport America to construct installations with servers, millimeter wave transceivers, and other tech onsite.
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So in early 2013, commissioners created the Cameron County Spaceport Development Corporation — an organization made possible through an economic development law that Texas passed in 2007, called House Bill 2278, which specifically addressed spaceports.
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But the Air Force now maintains one of three former shuttle hangars at KSC for the X-37B program, allowing the Boeing-built spaceplane to launch, land, and be refurbished at the same spaceport.
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A new UK spaceport would actually make it the first such port in Europe, since the European Space Agency's (ESA) is located in the not-very-European-location of French Guiana in South America.
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I brought this up this up with Isobel James Shasha, a developer at Sundae Month who just released Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, which mixes lo-fi 3D environments with 2D pixel art characters.
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The launch pad, which World View refers to as their "spaceport," could be used for both tourism flights and Stratollite launches, although Stratollite balloons could also be launched in other places around the globe.
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The launch is also a first for Georgia's Spaceport Camden, which was previously a NASA static test fire site for solid state rockets in the 1960s, before recently being repurposed as Vector's launch facility.
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In Tunisia, the Island of Djerba, Ksar Hadada, Tozeur and Matmata, among other locations, were used to create the Mos Espa slave quarters, Mos Eisley spaceport exterior and the courtyard of the Lars family homestead.
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When Virgin Galactic starts commercial operations, up to six passengers at a time will get three days of training and preparation at Spaceport America, in New Mexico, before take the trip, along with two pilots.
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In 203 the agency announced that Kennedy Space Center, the launch site for the Apollo and Shuttle missions, would become a "multi-user spaceport," a euphemism for leasing many of its facilities to private contractors.
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Outwardly, the vehicle is nearly identical to its predecessor The VSS Unity was shown off today at a special ceremony at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California, where Virgin Galactic conducts its flight tests.
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SpaceX has mostly used Boca Chica for this work, and Musk's presentation, which featured a new Starship launch visualization showing off big plans for the coastal site, underscored the company's hopes for its nascent spaceport.
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The company, a subsidiary of billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group, maintains the aspiration of having a fleet of vehicles operating from New Mexico, where Virgin Galactic plans to use Spaceport America as a home base.
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Funding in the form of federal grants would help support development in a way that's similar to what's available for traditional aviation, he said, suggesting that it would also help "normalize what a spaceport is."
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The rocket launched from a pad located about 1.5 miles east of Boca Chica Village at the very southern tip of Texas, where SpaceX is building out a private spaceport amid a few dozen homes.
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For the town of Truth or Consequences, not much has really changed since Spaceport America was built, and opinions are mixed on whether the residents will experience any positive effects from Virgin Galactic's operations there.
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Rocket Lab has chosen four spaceports in the U.S. as final candidates – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Wallops in Virginia, the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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SpaceX and Jones Lang LaSalle, a real-estate firm hired to conduct a village buyout, told homeowners that if that happens, the Cameron County Spaceport Development Corporation might use its eminent-domain authority to remove them.
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Vector — a private spaceflight startup based out of Tucson, Arizona — just successfully pulled off another test flight of one of its micro-rockets, launching the 40-foot-tall vehicle this morning from a spaceport in Georgia.
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Similar to how the US government created Sallie Mae to handle student-loan lending, and Fannie Mae to help people buy homes, Cameron County's spaceport corporation was formed to support the creation and operation of spaceports.
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Ticket holders, most of whom paid $200,000 or more for a Virgin Galactic flight, will one day congregate at the spaceport before they board a supersonic plane for a 90-minute ride into the upper atmosphere.
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And the Houston Chronicle reported this week that SpaceX is now seeking an additional $5 million in funding to develop the launch complex on top of the $15.3 million already pledged by the Texas Spaceport Trust Fund.
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For one thing, Baikonur is still an active spaceport—the Russian space program leases the site from Kazakhstan for around $115 million a year, and uses it to launch its own and other country's astronauts into space.
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In July, the company announced that it would pick a spot at one of four government-operated spaceports: Cape Canaveral, Florida; Vandenberg Air Force Base in California; Wallops Flight Facility; or the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska.
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The company is reportedly renting 15,000 square feet of hangar space from Virgin Galactic — the commercial spaceflight outfit of business mogul Richard Branson — at the privately owned Spaceport America located near a town called Truth or Consequences.
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New Mexico's Spaceport America, for example, opened in 2011 and is now an emptier-than-expected monument to unfulfilled promises and overambitious deadlines, financed by tax dollars ($209 million of them) to dubious and opaque economic advantage.
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This is the first orbital contract with a spaceport for Vector, the next major step toward the company's goal of launching more than 100 times per year, chief executive Jim Cantrell told CNBC in an exclusive interview.
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It's also unclear how arguing that a private spaceport is "a public use" might go in Texas courts, said Christopher Clough, the managing partner at Adler, Clough & Oddo, LLP, a large eminent-domain defense firm in Texas.
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It didn't make much of a splash when it was announced, but it's a huge move for the UK as it laid the regulatory groundwork that will be needed to create an operational spaceport, potentially by 2020.
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You're strung along by the secrets of the sewer dungeons to believe that Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor has an underlying RPG format, a larger world to explore, with weapons and armor even being sold in shops.
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He said the presence of the large shipping containers indicates that "there's likely a rocket in the complex," saying that certain areas of the Spaceport complex tend to be void of activity unless a launch is forthcoming.
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Its spacecraft have already been to space with people inside, essentially taking the same trip as what is planned for paying passengers — who, by the way, will embark from the recently unveiled Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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They were told that the spaceport would provide an influx of jobs and tourists who were looking to explore the nearby towns whenever they came to fly to space (or watch their loved ones fly to space).
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Jonk and three friends had to hike all night through the desert to access the active spaceport, but they were rewarded with the opportunity to photograph two abandoned Soviet space shuttles currently rusting away in a hangar.
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While the greater market may be competitive, the UKSA official told CNBC that the ongoing investment program is not designed as a competition, and that the agency is not backing a single location as the nation's spaceport.
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On a peanuts budget and working in their spare time, engineering undergrads at the University of Southern California designed and manufactured a rocket they call *Fathom II. *In March, they launched it from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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When two rockets crash-landed during test launches at a remote spaceport on Alaska's Kodiak Island in 2018, the unspent fuel on board bled into the ground at the launch site, contaminating more than 230 tons of soil.
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"Obviously rockets that are very small and launch from a [commercial] spaceport are different than great, big heavy-lift launch vehicles like the Falcon Heavy," Jim Muncy, founder of PoliSpace, a space policy consulting agency, tells The Verge.
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World View's new spaceport in Tucson, Arizona is focused on a unique task: Launching high altitude balloons that will take equipment, and eventually people, to the Earth's stratosphere to do work in an edge-of-space operating theater.
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Virgin Galactic is actively trying to get a Spaceport built in the UK. Given space tourism's track record in New Mexico, we might humbly suggest to our British friends that they make the billionaires pay for it themselves.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has formally reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency and a deputy prime minister over an abortive space rocket launch on Wednesday from a new spaceport, Russian agencies quoted the Kremlin as saying.
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During her tenure, the F.A.A. licensed the first inland commercial spaceport in the country, the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, and the launch there in 2004 of SpaceShipOne, the first privately developed manned vehicle to reach space.
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Ichijo was also kind enough to point me towards games such as " RE.CO.N" , Devil Daggers, Strafe, Dusk, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, and Vaccine as examples of other works playing in the a similar PS1-era 23D style.
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"Later this year, we aim to change the history of space launch with the completion of our first flight test mass accelerator at Spaceport America," said founder and CEO Jonathan Yaney in a press release announcing the funding.
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" On the other side of the banner there are more words, but I am not sure whether these were written for Spaceport America or are someone's leftover entry for a Soviet poetry competition: "Service, Routine, Muscular Tonality, Gastrointestinal Health.
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The satellites, which blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 9003 rocket at 2900 AM local time (25 GMT), will be part of the European Union's alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS.
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SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is trying to build a private spaceport in Boca Chica at the southern tip of Texas and one day launch missions to Mars from the site using a system called Starship.
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Around 25:222AM ET, SpaceX is slated to launch one of its Falcon 25 rockets from the California coast, while European launch provider Arianespace will send up its Ariane 26 rocket from its South American spaceport in French Guiana.
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But its manifest of a handful of commercial missions is expected to more than double this year as the market for smaller launchers takes off, according to Mark Lester, president of Alaska Aerospace, which owns and operates the spaceport.
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The vehicle, which landed on a floating drone ship on May 6th after launching into space, was taken from Port Canaveral to SpaceX's hangar at Launch Complex 393A — a spaceport the company leases from NASA at Kennedy Space Center.
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Even though the new spaceport has now been christened with a launch, Roscosmos only plans to launch about one rocket per year from there for the foreseeable future, and the agency's lease on the Baikonur Cosmodrome lasts until 2050.
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The side stages will be guiding themselves to Landing Zone 1 and 2 nearby the launch complex, while the center core, having traveled much further, will land on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship Of Course I Still Love You.
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And then comes your first choice in what promises to be a fully interactive experience: Beyond the bazaar, the attraction will feature a First Order spaceport and an ancient forest compound where members of the Resistance can be found.
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It's part of Galaxy's Edge, a new billion-dollar, 19383-acre expansion, and to get to that lever, visitors first navigate a queue that twists through a meticulous re-creation of a spaceport and the inside of the Falcon.
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The satellites, which blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 10.06 AM local time (1306 GMT), will be part of the European Union's alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS.
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When these big spenders arrive to fly, they'll travel to this very sparse part of New Mexico and spend a few days at Spaceport America, training for their trips and enjoying the modern lounge area designed by Virgin Galactic.
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On this day in 19033, the 184-pound spacecraft departed from a modest Kazakh launchpad that would later evolve into the famous Baikonur Cosmodrome, currently the only spaceport on Earth capable of transporting humans to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The craft, part of the European-Russian ExoMars program, is to lift off from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan on board a Proton rocket at 5:31 A.M. EDT (0931 GMT) on Monday, starting a seven-month journey through space.
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It's a smart business move: Besides Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk's SpaceX (which is also supposed to use Spaceport America), there are other space tourism efforts, like Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, which is taking over its own launchpad in Cape Canaveral.
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Crucial for China's bigger space station and missions to the moon and Mars, a new $730 million spaceport and heavier boosters mark "a huge step," said Jim Oberg, a space historian and flight expert and former long-time NASA contractor.
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Virgin currently has a spaceport in New Mexico, and its Virgin Galactic wing (which focuses on reusable passenger travel to space using its WhiteKnightTwo carrier craft and SpaceShipTwo actual space craft) recently began shifting operations from California to that facility.
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"For many of us who've been following the commercial space industry for the past 10 to 15 years, I think it's going slower than everybody had hoped," says Brian Gulliver, aerospace and spaceport practice leader at Kimley-Horn, a consulting group.
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The idea is to put Virgin Galactic's space vehicle system at the future Grottaglie Spaceport where it can be used by private individuals who want to experience space, as well as customers like the Italian Space Agency interested in conducting research.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - U.S. companies eager to tap into the fast-growing market for low-cost satellite launches could become the first customers when Brazil's Alcantara space center near the equator opens as a commercial spaceport, executives and Brazilian officials said.
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Several buildings had their roofs damaged or destroyed as the eye of the hurricane passed 20- to 13 miles (32- to 40 km) east of Cape Canaveral, home to the spaceport that serves as the U.S. launch site for human spaceflight.
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The Vostochny spaceport, laid out in the thick taiga forest in the Amur Region, is the first civilian rocket launch site in Russia, intended to phase out Russia's reliance on the Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome, which Moscow leases from Kazakhstan.
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The negotiations opened in October in Baikonur, the Russian-operated spaceport in Kazakhstan, where a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a cosmonaut and an astronaut failed in flight, though an emergency escape system propelled their capsule to a harrowing but safe return.
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Earlier in the afternoon, the Ariane 5 rocket, operated by Arianespace, took off at approximately 29:29PM ET from the company's French Guiana spaceport carrying a pair of communications satellites, one from Intelsat and another from European Space Agency and Airbus.
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They talked about a private spaceport Camden County officials want to build just west of Cumberland Island, complained about a zealous new park ranger and worried about a plan to rezone a small slice of the island for private development.
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The U.K.-based company is also in the process of working on final approvals and construction of a new spaceport in Sutherland, located in the Scottish highlands, which, when complete, will be the first mainland space launch facility in Europe.
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Starship, a fully reusable launch vehicle the company is working to develop in Boca Chica, Texas, would blast passengers from one spaceport to another at 4.6 miles per second, or about 12 times as fast as a supersonic-jet flight.
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In November, shortly before blasting off on a Soyuz rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome on the steppes of Kazakhstan — the only spaceport capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station — he took a moment to describe his mission for posterity.
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It's a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America's premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on the concrete and thawing out after a long, cold night.
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The Ft. Bliss, Texas-based soldiers were located on shore, about 2202 nautical miles south of Kodiak harbor at the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska where Sunday's successful missile intercept test was conducted as if they were in an actual combat scenario.
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The Virgin Galactic chairman is aiming to build a spaceport in the UK that'll launch private citizens into low orbit for $250,000, let them float weightlessly while admiring our fragile planet for a few minutes, then fall safely back down to terra firma.
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"At the larger scales, it could be used for something as grand as human Mars explorations, or potentially human cargo landings on Mars," Smith told Reuters at the Spaceport America launch site, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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"In the last year we have seen new initiatives emerge that fuel alternative technology such as Nordic Edge (Smart City), Spaceport Norway (Space industry) Norwegian Smart Care Cluster (transfer of knowledge from oil and gas to health care) and others," said Ohm Heskja.
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I love that it is so weird and happily low-fi and sort of joyous, while simultaneously hitting salient points about being down and out in a big city, prey to bigger, or meaner, or ever-more privileged citizens of your spaceport.
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Moon Express is working on the MX-1 lander Moon Express was originally supposed to work on its lander at Launch Complex 36A, a spaceport at the Cape that was once used by NASA and the Air Force to launch Atlas rockets.
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On a less technical level, Adidas' Y-3 will also be responsible for designing the uniforms for passengers taking their first flights to the edge of space, as well as for the ground crew and other operations personnel at Spaceport America.[Y-3]
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After two successful test missions of its rocket-powered space plane over the past few months, the company announced Friday that it will move its spacecraft and 100 of its workers to a building called Spaceport America in the state this summer.
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It's a sour taste that the young developer collective at Sundae Month know all too well, and one reason why their latest game, the"anti-adventure" Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, can find such beauty in the banality of a truly awful job.
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It's a sour taste that the young developer collective at Sundae Month know all too well, and one reason why their latest game, the "anti-adventure" Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, can find such beauty in the banality of a truly awful job.
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This is a service aimed specifically at national security and intelligence customers, and combines the benefits of ISI's remote sensing expertise and capabilities, with Virgin Orbit's ability to launch on relatively short notice from basically any allied spaceport facility using its LauncherOne system.
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The time for broader publicity may soon be at hand, however: The funds will be used to build out its new headquarters and R&D facility in Long Beach, but also to complete its flight test facility at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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The land lease is still dependent on final approval being given for the spaceport to be built, which is in process as the groups behind its development, including the U.K. Space Agency, are in process of working out the designs, funding and environmental impact studies.
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It's not every day that a senior official at SpaceX calls you up, asks you to sell your home to the rocket company founded by the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, and explains that your property may one day become part of a Mars spaceport.
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If true, that would be a major embarrassment to the Russian space program — the idea that such an obvious mistake (Baikonur is the country's primary spaceport in Kazakhstan) could not just be made in the first place, but also fail to be detected and corrected.
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It's kind of a PowerPoint-heavy Opening Ceremonies, minus musical numbers, and the ballroom is full of launch vehicle makers, propulsion companies, component constructors, New Space upstarts, Old Space stalwarts, spaceport representatives, and also the guy who sent the first hot dog toward space.
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Like the Virgin Galactic Spaceport, RRL promised big things to New Mexico and delivered little, building only 80 percent of the hangars before the state's Construction Industries Division ordered progress halted in January 2009, because of a dispute regarding firewalls required in the hangars.
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So in the early 2010s, SpaceX picked Boca Chica to become the first private spaceport in the US. The company's original plan was to launch up to 12 commercial missions a year (such as telecommunications satellites) on its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
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Jeremy Brown, design director for Spaceport America, explains that the choice of materials and terraced surfaces, leading up to the lighter, airier second story, is meant to evoke the landscape outside, which nearly all the seating faces, and draw the attention outwards and upwards.
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In April, a technical glitch forced a one-day postponement of the inaugural launch of an unmanned Soyuz rocket from Russia's new Vostochny spaceport in the Far East in the presence of President Vladimir Putin, who had specially travelled there to watch the event.
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Despite indications just a few days ago that launches as soon as later this month were on track as planned, Arianespace announced on Monday that they made the tough call to suspend operations at the Guiana Space Center, Europe's spaceport located in French Guiana.
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Here's what to expect for each mission and how you can watch both vehicles launch live: The Ariane 22016, operated by European launch provider Arianespace, is scheduled to take off sometime between 29:93PM ET and 29:217PM ET from the company's French Guiana spaceport.
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Unity carried one passenger during its February test flight, the company's chief astronaut trainer Beth Moses, and is now in the process of moving its operations from test facilities at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California down to Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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Sutherland isn't the only spaceport the U.K. is looking to open in an effort to open up its commercial launch capabilities: There are also plans in the works to open one in Cornwall, with support and funding from both the UKSA and Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit.
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The satellites, which will be part of the European Union's alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, blasted off from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 8.25 AM local time (1325 GMT), according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
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"Maybe they're trying to figure out how much of it they can acquire, and then if it's a matter of just having to acquire a couple of pieces at the end, then maybe they're more likely to use condemnation" through the spaceport development corporation, Clough said.
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The satellite "did not reach enough speed in the third stage and was not put into orbit," Mohammad Jahromi, the country's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, told the official IRNA news agency after a ceremony was held for the launch at Imam Khomeini Spaceport early Tuesday.
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The Ecosene also has the advantage of not requiring cryogenic freezing, and it can be stored in tanks for long periods of time, something that the startup says helps it work particularly well for launch conditions from the Scottish spaceport from which the company plans to launch.
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A senior executive at SpaceX is going door-to-door in South Texas to convince people to move out of the rocket company's planned Mars spaceportHow a few scrappy homeowners may stand between Elon Musk and his dream of a Mars spaceport in South TexasThat's it this week.
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A failed rocket launch from Russia's new spaceport at Vostochny last month was not in fact caused by an elementary programming error, as recent reports have indicated — or at least that's what Roscosmos, the country's space agency, has claimed, contradicting earlier statements made by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
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For all their positive spin, phrases like "multi-user spaceport" and "commercial crew program," not to mention the SpaceX hat I had just been handed, couldn't help but remind me that the final frontier, the last great commons, has been all but entirely handed over to private interest.
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Virgin Galactic is getting closer to actually flying its first paying space tourists — it just moved its SpaceShipTwo "VSS Unity" vehicle from its Mojave manufacturing site to its spaceport in New Mexico, which is where tourists will board for their short trips to the edge of outer space.
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Installation has finally begun on Jeff Bezos' 23,000-year clock, a project that the Amazon CEO has invested $42 million in (along with a hollowed-out mountain in Texas that Bezos intends for a Blue Origin spaceport), with the goal of building a mechanical clock that will run for 10 millennia.
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SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Lockheed Martin, ViaSat, Boeing, and Virgin Galactic all have operations in southern California, and the state has both the Mojave Air and Space Port and the California Spaceport—which is located on Vandenberg Air Force Base but is commercially operated—that it could use for launches.
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In the early morning of April 21, 10 students from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Lab piled into the back of a pickup truck with a 13-foot rocket wedged between them and drove down a dusty dirt road to a launchpad near Spaceport America, in southern New Mexico.
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There are fantasies, including a 1950s "Spaceport U.S.A." model that evokes space age ambitions with a punch-out flying saucer for voyaging to "Planet X"; while others bring the wonders of the world down to a Lilliputian scale, like a detailed 1980s model of Sacré-Cœur and its surrounding Montmartre neighborhood in Paris.
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Likewise, Saad Mirza, the project manager of Princeton SpaceShot, told me in an email that his team is not participating in Project Karman, but is on track to launch its lightweight sounding rocket to space in May, from Spaceport America, with the ultimate goal of designing, building, and launching rockets for $10,000.
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The 21st-Century Space Race Is Heating Up Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo and Blue Origin's New Shepard are carving the path for space tourism by utilizing "reusable space vehicles," explains Bill Gutman, vice president of aerospace operations at Spaceport America, a commercial space complex that aims to unlock the future of space exploration.
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Primarily because it marked Kennedy Space Center's return to being an active spaceport after nearly six years of no launches following the end of space shuttle program in 2011, but also because it marked SpaceX's first return to the ISS after it had a Falcon 213 explode on the launch pad during a pre-launch test last September.
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Virgin Galactic is one crucial step closer to actually flying paying customers to space: The space tourism company just relocated its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the VSS Unity, from its Mojave, California manufacturing facility to Spaceport America in New Mexico, where it will begin flights with a goal of at least sending company founder Richard Branson to space during the year of his 70th birthday.
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Plans to open a new spaceport in Sutherland in Scotland have moved closer to final approval: The real estate companies working on the deal have signed a 75-year lease for the land to be used for Space Hub Sutherland, which will look to launch small satellites via private launch services from companies including startup Orbex, a micro-launch startup founded in 2015, and Lockheed Martin.
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Part 1: SpaceX's most vocal holdouts in South Texas are selling their homes to Elon Musk's rocket company to make way for a Mars spaceportPart 2: A senior executive at SpaceX is going door-to-door in South Texas to convince people to move out of the rocket company's planned Mars spaceportPart 3: Elon Musk dreams of building a Mars spaceport in South Texas.
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But it can't balance (let alone smoothly blend) the two, and instead, it offers an uneven combination of each: a garish settlement constructed of modular cubes that suggests no amount of "frontier struggle"; an outlaw spaceport where things always wrap up far too neatly; a mustache-twirling villain who monologues about genetic destiny—only to have his views on racial essentialism supported by the game's own text.
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Here's his story:The Rainmakers: Meet the top 20 bankers that orchestrated the biggest deals of 2019 and nabbed huge paydays along the wayBefore I go, I want to highlight the second and third installment of Dave Mosher's series on Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX, which is building a Starship rocket-development site and future Mars spaceport in Boca Chica, a remote beach area at the southern tip of Texas.
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The latest National Hurricane Center forecasts predict that the storm will come ashore on Monday, and while there's still a great deal of uncertainty in where exactly landfall may occur, one possibility is right around NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the historic, $239-billion spaceport that SpaceX uses to blast rockets into orbit and which will play an integral role in NASA's planned future missions to the Moon and Mars.
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Read more:The CEO of the EV charging company ChargePoint explains why he ordered a Tesla Model Y instead of a Ford Mustang Mach-EElon Musk wants to build a private 'SpaceX Village' with 100 rooms, lounge parties, volleyball tournaments, and rock climbing amid a South Texas retiree communityTesla stock declined 30% last week — that's proof that the company's legendary volatility isn't going anywhere, but it is a lot more expensiveElon Musk dreams of building a Mars spaceport in South Texas.
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