New Mexico Gets A Spaceport

New Mexico’s governor, Bill Richardson, is set to announce the inaugural launch in a series of space launches to occur at the State’s new Southwest Regional Spaceport. On March 27, 2006, UP Aerospace will launch its SpaceLoft rocket on a sub-orbital flight from the New Mexico Spaceport. The flight will carry seven experimental and commercial payloads for a variety of scholastic and business entities. UP Aerospace will be able to launch up to 30 space launches per year from New Mexico’s Spaceport. This isn’t a spaceport for tourism, UP Aerospace concentrates on three markets, businesses that require economical testing of space-flight hardware, scientific analysis of the earth and in-space phenomena, and research. They plan to eventually have college students be able to conduct science on a space-flying rocket.