Algernon D'Ammassa6d ago

A U.S. flag measuring nearly two acres was trucked to Spaceport America and unfurled for cleaning. The effort required a crane and dozens of volunteers.

Then a sand storm welcomed them to New Mexico.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/spaceport-america-hosts-cleaning-of-mammoth-us-flag/3003687

#NewMexico #duststorms #SpaceportAmerica #flags

Great American Flag cleaned at Spaceport America ahead of nation’s 250th anniversary

Volunteers at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico helped hand-scrub the 86,000-square-foot Great American Flag, a nearly two-acre U.S. banner brought from Pittsburgh for a rare cleaning before the country’s 250th anniversary.

abqjournal
Algernon D'AmmassaFeb 25

The newest member of the board governing Spaceport America is a real estate mogul from New York who has made major investments in Sierra County.

https://www.abqjournal.com/business/real-estate-mogul-joins-spaceport-america-board-of-directors/2987853

#newmexico #spaceportamerica

Real estate mogul joins Spaceport America board of directors

New York real estate investor James Prendamano of PreReal Investments, who has poured more than $55 million into Sierra County developments, has been appointed to the New Mexico Spaceport Authority board of directors through 2030.

abqjournal
Algernon D'AmmassaMay 28, 2025

Spaceport America welcomed a new tenant this week, announcing a two-year lease with a Japanese space startup aiming to achieve orbital flight. 

https://www.abqjournal.com/business/article_7c664615-2ab9-459c-9eee-104ce644da5c.html

#NewMexico #aerospace #spaceportamerica

Spaceport America welcomes Japanese startup as new tenant

Spaceport America welcomed a new tenant this week, announcing a two-year lease with Tokyo-based Innovative Space Carrier.

Albuquerque Journal
Algernon D'AmmassaMay 24, 2025

For a while I have been reporting on the spaceport’s efforts to serve new clients and tenants, to tell stories of itself beyond Virgin Galactic’s fate. If this test is indeed a key step for a future with point-to-point hypersonic passenger flight, then this is one of those stories.

https://www.abqjournal.com/business/article_aed10e66-2ad3-4d08-8263-77edba13ff03.html

#SpaceportAmerica #aerospace #NewMexico

Spaceport America hosts groundbreaking rocket test flight

LAS CRUCES — Spaceport America was the site of a seminal moment in rocketry last week, when Texas-based Venus Aerospace conducted the first test flight of a rocket propelled by

Albuquerque Journal
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀May 19, 2025

In 📆 2006, construction began and ultimately used $218.5 million 💰 in public funds. “Looking at the numbers and what has taken place over the years, it’s been a bad investment” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/business/economy/spaceport-america-new-mexico.html

#SpaceportAmerica #visions #WhistleInTheDark

New Mexico’s Spaceport America Is an Economic Dream Deferred

Long a priority of local officials, the desert launchpad is sending tourists into space, but taxpayers and merchants are waiting for the payoff.

The New York Times
Show threadSpaceflight 🚀May 19, 2025

"Our long-term ⏳🥱 goal is #orbital launch. But we need a vehicle that is designed for orbital launch [...] we have a much larger vision*" https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/new-mexicos-spaceport-america-looks-up-and-into-the-future

* "Whoever has #visions should go to the doctor" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt

#SpaceportAmerica

New Mexico's Spaceport America looks up and into the future

"At Spaceport America we have a much larger vision."

Space
RTNMay 18, 2025

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Venus Aerospace’s Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Completes First Flight Test
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"Houston, Texas-based startup Venus Aerospace claims to have completed the first U.S. flight test of a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) this week. "

https://www.mobilityengineeringtech.com/component/content/article/53127-venus-aerospaces-rotating-detonation-rocket-engine-completes-first-flight-test

16.5.2025

#Rakete #Raketenmotor #Raumfahrt #RDRE #RocketEngine #rocketry #SpaceFlight #SpaceportAmerica #VenusAerospace

Venus Aerospace’s Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Completes First Flight Test

Venus Aerospace completed the first flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine in New Mexico on May 14. (Image: Venus Aerospace) Houston, Texas-based startup Venus Aerospace claims to have completed the first U.S.

Show threadSpaceflight 🚀Apr 8, 2025

There are only 2 "#spaceport" 🚀 so far in #OpenStreetMap which pretended to be one unless they never launched something to #space 🌌 (for a considerable amount of time) : #SpaceportAmerica and #CornRanch (#BlueOrigin's #NewShepard launch site) https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/aeroway%3Asuborbital#values. #SpaceportCornwall 🛫 has never been one (other than for propaganda) https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1105816254

There's a considerable amount of #launchpad ⚪ (#balloon 🎈, #research #rockets...) https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=launchpad#values

#SpaceFlight #Orbit #DeepSpace

aeroway:suborbital | Keys | OpenStreetMap Taginfo

Sean LynchNov 17, 2024

Congratulations to the students at USC!
#space #rocketry #SpacePortAmerica

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/usc-students-set-world-record-with-high-flying-rocket-launch-video

USC students set world record with high-flying rocket launch (video)

The group's Aftershock II rocket reached an altitude of 470,000 feet (143,250 meters) last month.

Space
Algernon D'AmmassaMay 25, 2023

As #VirginGalactic flies again from #NewMexico, an updated editorial from yesterday's paper encourages Spaceport America to keep finding stories about itself independent of its famous anchor tenant.

https://www.demingheadlight.com/2023/05/25/spaceport-america-gears-space-flights/

#SpaceportAmerica

Spaceport America gears up for space flights once more

Spaceport America has been pilloried over the years because its anchor tenant, Virgin Galactic, has repeatedly pushed back the opening of its commercial passenger service to the edge of space. The New Mexico legislature backed the facility in 2006 after VG founder Richard Branson announced, standing next to Gov. Bill Richardson, that Sierra County would be the global headquarters of his space tourism enterprise. In the ensuing years, the beginning …