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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation March 1 enabling the state to invest $110 million in the construction of a planned spaceport near Upham in the southern part of the state just west of the White Sands Missile Testing Center. The spaceport site is approximately 43 square kilometers of open, generally level, range land that has been picked for its low-population density, uncongested airspace and high elevation.
Building the Business Case for Public Space Travel
In the last few years, personal space travel has become a far more feasible business proposition, but officials in the industry acknowledge that a lot of work will be needed to foster and then sustain businesses that enter the field.
Wanted: Spaceship Builders
Anyone looking to get their hands dirty and be on the ground floor of public space travel might want to touch base with one of the leading builders of spacecraft that are being designed specifically to transport future space tourists.
2005 AAAS ISC Award goes to a team of Russian and American scientists
AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, named a team of Russian and American scientists to receive the 2005 International Scientific Cooperation Award. They are Dr. Kyle T. Alfriend, Dr. […]
OpEd: The Rebounding Satcom and Space Industries
A bout seven to eight years ago, just before the turn of the millennium, the telecom and dot.com crashes were just beginning. Shortly thereafter, the NASDAQ would crash and burn to less than half its value. Many in the investment banking community were writing off the satellite industry in the wake of the bankruptcies of ICO, Globalstar, Iridium and Orbcomm, and the seemingly stagnant growth of the fixed satellite organizations like PanAmSat and Intelsat. Most bright young analysts on Wall Street were saying that the satellite communications (Satcom) industry was dying, and the future belonged to fiber optics and cable modems.
New Mexico Aims To Build a Better Spaceport
The “build it and they will come” adage seems to be the real rocket fuel propelling New Mexico’s bid to construct a sprawling spaceport near Upham in the southern part of the state.
Discovery of the Youngest Ever Binary Pulsar
An international team of astronomers using a state-of-the-art receiver system on the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has discovered a binary pulsar system which promises to be an […]