Spaceport America is "the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport", designed and constructed specifically for commercial users, that had not previously been an airport or federal infrastructure of any kind.
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16 Facts About Spaceport America
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Spaceport America is owned and operated by the State of New Mexico, via a state agency, the New Mexico Spaceport Authority.
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Spaceport America began as a potential landing site for reentry capsules and then evolved into a test and operations site for the cancelled Lockheed Martin VentureStar project.
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Spaceport America wrote the initial business and strategic plans, secured US$1.
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In spite of the rejection, Spaceport America had what it needed to move forward and progress toward its completion began.
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In December 2008, the New Mexico Spaceport America Authority received its launch license for vertical and horizontal launch from the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
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The facilities at Spaceport America were never used for Falcon 9 RDV and equipment staged was eventually moved back to Texas.
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The Spaceport America Authority asked the New Mexico legislature in November 2014 for in emergency funds to maintain operations until 2016, the earliest date at which Virgin was expected to be able to begin commercial flight operations.
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Spaceport America is located under FAA Special Use Airspace Restricted Areas 5111A and 5111B.
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An annual rocketry competition and engineering event, Spaceport America Cup, takes place at the site, is an Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition -official event, and is sanctioned by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association .
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Spaceport America provides suborbital launch services to customers such as NASA, Department of Defense, educational institutions, and the private sector.
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Spaceport America intends to use this vehicle to support third party research requirements including hybrid engine development and high-G testing.
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Spaceport America has hosted two sessions of testing launch technology using ram accelerator technology to accelerate projectiles to high velocities.
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Spaceport America hosted launches of a Princeton University student launch vehicle program with the goal of reaching the Karman Line with a two-stage rocket.
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Spaceport America promotes educational involvement in grade school and universities through activities, educational materials and training aimed at promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics .
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Spaceport America Cup is designed in conjunction with the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition for student rocketry teams from all over the country and around the world.
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