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	Spaceport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such hypothetical spaceports will present unique challenges in noise abatement, zoning, and passenger access, with as much as a 5 mile wide corridor surrounding a 30 mile long runway.
		The space tourism industry is being targeted by spaceports in numerous locations, including California, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Florida, Virginia, Alaska and Wisconsin, as well as Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
		Spaceport could be in the stars for Sheboygan The Daily Cardinal
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spaceport (317 words)

	Mojave Spaceport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mojave Spaceport (IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV), also known as the Mojave Airport and Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is the first facility to be licensed in the United States for horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft.
		It was certified as a spaceport by the Federal Aviation Administration on June 17, 2004.
		It is favored for these purpose as, due to its proximity to the Edwards Air Force Base, the airspace is restricted from ground level to an unlimited height.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mojave_Spaceport (353 words)

	ESA - Europe's Spaceport
		Europe's Spaceport is situated in the northeast of South America in French Guiana, an overseas department of France.
		For its part, ESA approved funding to upgrade the launch facilities at the CSG to prepare the Spaceport for the Ariane launchers under development.
		Since then, ESA has continued to fund two thirds of the spaceport's annual budget to finance the operations and the investments needed to maintain the top level services provided by the Spaceport.
	www.esa.int /SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport (388 words)

	The Chumash Indians And the California Spaceport
		My goal was to document the absence of dialogue between spaceport developers and local tribes, especially over the expansion of commerical spaceport facilities on so-called empty lands near Indian reservations.
		Commercial spaceports are being promoted in over a dozen states, which are competing with one another for tax dollars which a successful spaceport would bring.
		For a number of years now, the California spaceport has rallied strong support from the pro-development lobby in Sacramento: including big business, the Republican state caucus, local chambers of commerce, state senators and elected officials from nearby cities.
	www.angelfire.com /id/newpubs/spaceport.html (2490 words)

	Spaceport Battalion, US Naval Sea Cadet Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Spaceport Battalion is a non-for-profit division of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps., a youth organization geared towards the motivation of young people to be better citizens in thier communities, teaching them the Navy's core values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment.
		Spaceport Battalion, however, falls into the fourth category, as a "Seabee Construction Battalion." We focus on the Civil Engineering aspect of the US Navy, and base our program upon the fighting Seabees, who have built the road to victory since World War II.
		Spaceport Battalion is proud to be a member of the Armed Forces family.
	www.spaceportbattalion.org /nscc/aboutspaceport.htm (460 words)

	Vision Spaceport/NASA Business Forum
		That expertise is being shared by the Vision Spaceport partnership in casting a sharp eye on developing the technologies needed to support the increased flight rates envisioned for tomorrow's spaceports.
		Efficient spaceport infrastructures envisioned for the future can encourage the growth of space transportation as an industry, while antiquated systems present numerous barriers to establishing record launch-rate capabilities.
		Spaceport operators also are particularly welcome to contribute their unique perspective on reducing spaceport operations costs.
	www.nasatech.com /NEWS/SEPT99/ntb999.spaceport.html (1752 words)

	SpacePort 6: SP6 Government
		SpacePort 6 is run by 2 co-existing governmental bodies: the Elected Council and the Departmental Council.
		SpacePort 6 security maintains one of the three AI supercomputers on SP6 in order to coordinate its activies and help manage its massive responsibilities.
		SpacePort 6 Customs is usually conducted by a SP6 security officer or a autonomous robot of some sort.
	members.tripod.com /~hawk_wind/sp6/SP6govt.html (694 words)

	Welcome to Spaceport Singapore
		Spaceport Singapore, in addition to providing suborbital spaceflights, will offer a wide range of space and high-altitude experiences for those who wish to experience various aspects of astronaut training.
		We identified Singapore as an ideal location for a spaceport as it has the right combination of foresight, entrepreneurialism and technological sophistication to support a project such as this,” said Michael Lyon, Managing Director of Spaceport Singapore Project.
		The estimated cost of Spaceport Singapore is minimum $115 million (USD) and will be partially funded by the private sector, Singapore sources, together with Space Adventures’ global spaceport development partner, His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.
	www.spaceportsingapore.com /pressrelease.html (1004 words)

	Aerospace Technology - Kourou Spaceport Launch System
		The Guiana Space Centre, also known as the Spaceport, is a strategically located facility that provides the optimum operating conditions for commercial launches.
		Arianespace's ELA-3 launch complex at the Spaceport was built specifically to serve the new Ariane 5 heavy-lift vehicle.
		Many of the Spaceport's changes are to being made to accommodate Ariane 5 rockets equipped with the new ESC cryogenic upper stages, which will enter service on the heavy-lift launcher from early 2002.
	www.aerospace-technology.com /projects/kourou (657 words)

	BeebleBrox: Indianapolis Intergalactic Spaceport
		BeebleBrox are beginning to blink their eyes, wriggle their toes and respond to voices after releasing two comatose albums, Quantumn Tweezers and Raw Material.
		Those gains have come from the band's discovery of organic instruments such as acoustic piano and upright bass, while they have eschewed, at least partially, the operating room sterility of digital and electronic gadgetry.
		Kienle in particular is given to wandering solos; the one he takes on the jumpy Chatterbrox is hardly compatible with the theme.
	www.acmerecords.com /bbspaceport.php (1066 words)

	spaceports / space ports and taxes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The spaceport enthusiasts' goals seem rather intriguing on paper at least, but are they genuinely pressing for any sufficiently significant, status quo-changing and pro-entrepreneurial reforms within the same government from which they simultaneously seek tax-subsidized handouts?
		For example, what did the spaceport enthusiasts do to oppose the wasteful and much maligned X-33 Shuttle replacement fiasco, which practically nobody else vocally or even tacitly supported except for some dependent government bureaucrats and a very small handful of anointed contractors?
		Both the X-33 and the spaceport movement are criticized as depending almost completely upon wasteful governmental pork barrel spending.
	www.spaceprojects.com /spaceports (419 words)

	SPACE.com -- Southwest Regional Spaceport Touted as New Mexico Moneymaker
		The selected spot for the future spaceport is near Upham, New Mexico, viewed by planners as an ideal location to handle future commercial launches, including piloted trips into space.
		These and other spaceport details were spelled out last week as New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced that the first rocket launch from the Southwest Regional Spaceport is slated for next March.
		That outlay consists of $4 million for launch and landing facilities and $5 million for the planning and operations of the X Prize Cup – to be staged as an annual event to showcase personal spaceflight organizations and their hardware.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/050913_nm_spaceport.html (606 words)

	Space Future - Spaceport Business - Potential Markets Through 2020
		Certainly, differentiation between spaceport facilities can be expected to eventually have an impact, together with a large number of other things, on the selection of the space tourism operator by the prospective public space traveler.
		For example, not all spaceports will be able to handle a full mix of large ELVs, small sounding rockets, horizontal and/or vertical tourist flights, etc. And there are geographical limitations that affect the kinds of orbital parameters that are even possible from any given site.
		If non-US spaceports handle say 70% of orbital launches each year (which is approximately correct), then all the US spaceports would be fighting for a share of around 20 such launches a year.
	www.spacefuture.com /archive/spaceport_business_potential_markets_thru_2020.shtml (2699 words)

	Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana
		(221) Ironically, before the coming of the spaceport, the area was mostly known in France for a notorious penal colony located on the nearby Devil's Island.
		Around the time, the annual budget of the spaceport reached around 300 million Francs, one third of which was funded by France and the rest by the European Space Agency.
		At the beginning of the 1990s, the spaceport in Kourou occupied 850 square kilometers of land and directly employed 1,100 members of the personnel.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /kourou.html (1347 words)

	Regulators OK Oklahoma spaceport - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Federal Aviation Administration has given its OK for commercial spaceflight operations at Oklahoma’s spaceport, a former military air base that is expected to begin hosting test flights of a new suborbital spacecraft next year.
		Urie said he was "elated" to hear that the proposed spaceport, on the grounds of the former Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base near Burns Flat, had received its license.
		The FAA said it would conduct safety inspections of the spaceport at least once a year, and the license would have to be renewed after five years.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13304491 (688 words)

	ESA - Europe's Spaceport - Overview of Europe's Spaceport
		Surrounded on two sides by equatorial forest, to the east it has a 50 km coastline bordering the Atlantic Ocean and to the south lies the town of Kourou.
		The Spaceport contains the administrative buildings as well as the numerous facilities required for a launch.
		This complex is made available to the satellite clients of Europe’s Spaceport to enable them to test and to prepare satellites for their journey into space.
	www.esa.int /SPECIALS/Launchers_Europe_s_Spaceport/SEME3D67ESD_0.html (1441 words)

	CBS News \| Virgin Spaceport to Be Built in N.M.
		New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Rick Homans said construction of the spaceport, to be built largely underground in the south of the state near the White Sands Missile Range, could begin in early 2007, depending on approval from environmental and aviation authorities.
		Virgin will have a 20-year lease on the facility, with annual payments of $1 million for the first five years and rising to cover the cost of the project by the end of the lease.
		The spaceport, to be located some 25 miles south of the town of Truth or Consequences, will be constructed 90 percent underground, with just the runway and supporting structures above ground.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/12/13/ap/tech/mainD8EFDD488.shtml (698 words)

	Spaceports compete in race for business - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The SpaceShipOne rocket plane touches down at the Mojave Airport in California on Monday with passenger jets in the background. The airport is known as America's first inland commercial spaceport as well as a long-term parking lot for unused planes.
		Suborbital space tourism could generate $700 million a year in revenues by the year 2021, according to a market study by Futron Corp. But the infant industry's main players say space passenger operations will require upgrades in infrastructure, regulations and even accommodations to attract the first wave of millionaire thrill-seekers.
		Spaceport operators might have to find a way to contract for such services on a per-flight basis when regular operations begin, Witt said.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6191567 (1436 words)

	Organisation of Ariane launch campaigns at the Guiana Space Centre - Europe's Spaceport
		The Spaceport is configured and its technicians are trained to support the launch as required by each particular mission.
		Based on these documents, the Spaceport staff verifies its ability to support the intended mission and compiles all the information needed for the launcher tracking and telemetry tasks.
		The logistic and technical Spaceport teams supply the required equipment and services, which are scheduled in the Interleaved Operations Plan (POI).
	esapub.esrin.esa.it /rfs/rfs14/space14.htm (788 words)

	New Mexico Spaceport
		From the intersection to the Spaceport Road is approximately 7 miles.
		The New Mexico spaceport is to be located near Upham, roughly 45 miles north of Las Cruces and 30 miles east of Truth or Consequences.
		I live not too far from where this next spaceport will be in New Mexico, thus giving me the advantage to blog about this and report to the readers with pictures once the groundbreaking starts for construction which is soon to start sometime late this year.
	nmspaceport.blogspot.com (2874 words)

	SPACE.com -- New Mexico Spaceport Gets State Go-ahead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By mid-2006, a selected architecture and engineering firm will be fully engaged, with spaceport specifications and cost estimates to be complete by year's end, Homans said.
		Then, by the first quarter of 2007, construction bids are to be issued, pending the spaceport license approval by the FAA, Homans explained.
		The spaceport site is approximately 27 square miles of open, generally level, range land that can be found 45 miles north of Las Cruces and 30 miles east of Truth or Consequences [map].
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/060216_spaceport_update.html (666 words)

	New Commerical Spaceport to be in New Mexico - SFWA News
		Branson and Richardson confirmed that Virgin Galactic plans to inaugurate space flights out of New Mexico in 2009 or 2010, once construction of the spaceport is complete, and plans to send 50,000 customers to space in the first ten years of operation.
		Funding for construction of the spaceport is expected to come from a combination of state capital outlay, federal appropriations, and a local-option gross receipts tax that will be proposed to voters of southern New Mexico counties that stand to benefit from the spaceport and the resulting job growth.
		The spaceport, located in Sierra County, about 45 miles northeast of Las Cruces, and 25 miles southeast of Truth or Consequence is approximately 27 square miles of open, generally level, range land with an average elevation of 4700 feet.
	www.sfwa.org /news/2005/spaceport.htm (502 words)

	Space Adventures — Space Adventures Announces $265 Million Global Spaceport Development Project < February 2006 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The total estimated cost of the global spaceport development project is at least $265 million (USD) and will be funded by various parties, along with shared investments by Space Adventures and the government of Ras Al-Khaimah.
		The company, which organized orbital flights for all of the world's private space explorers, also announces that His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi of Ras Al-Khaimah, along with the UAE Department of Civilian Aviation, have granted clearance to operate suborbital spaceflights in their air space.
		The UAE spaceport, planned to be located less than an hour drive from Dubai, already has commitments for $30 million (USD).
	www.spaceadventures.com /media/releases/2006-02/347 (1012 words)

	USATODAY.com - Space tourism poised for blast off at spaceport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TULSA (AP) — The countdown is under way for the launch of commercial spaceflights at Oklahoma's spaceport, according to the developer of a reusable launch vehicle.
		Spacecraft will be launched from Oklahoma's spaceport near Burns Flat by early 2007 with tickets costing up to $200,000.
		The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to grant the spaceport a space launch license in December, Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority Chairman Ken McGill said.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2005-06-23-space-tourism_x.htm (553 words)

	New Mexico Space Alliance and Southwest Regional Spaceport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The new spaceport is to be built within a few miles of Las Cruces and Truth or Consequences at Upham, New Mexico.
		The spaceport is expected to be operational for human space tourism flights in 2008 following FAA/AST license and permit approvals.
		Sister spaceports are expected to open at the European space center space in Kiruna, Sweden, Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, the Woomera Rocket Range in the outback of Australia, and Singapore enabling rapid global point-to-point affordable commercial space transport rides in the next decade.
	www.newmexicospacealliance.org (324 words)

	New Mexico Economic Development :: About Us
		The October 2005 X Prize Cup and Virgin Galactic’s December 2005 announcement that New Mexico will be its world headquarters are only the latest in a string of developments making our state the launchpad for the new space race.
		What lies ahead is a new, $225 million spaceport proposed to be located near Upham, New Mexico, projected to be completed by 2009 or 2010.
		The proposed spaceport called for a $225 million financial construction package, with $100 million of that to be paid by the state of New Mexico.
	ww1.edd.state.nm.us /index.php?/about/category/space_commercialization/SPACEPORT/space.html (420 words)

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