http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/02/27/reviving-spaceport-singapore/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/02/27/reviving-spaceport-singapore/comment-page-1/#comment-240685 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:55:30 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2008/02/27/reviving-spaceport-singapore/#comment-240685 Jeff,
There are too many obstacles to overcome for a Singapore spaceport (which is to be colocated with the International Airport). First of all, Singapore airlines has excellent service using the airport (the only international airport on the island) as it’s regional hub. It’s a big moneymaker. Asking the airport to suspend operations (largely impacting Singapore Airlines)for a couple of hours to allow a suborbital launch and reentry just doesn’t make any $ense. Secondly, both Spaceship Two and a Russian vehicle would have to be approved by Singapore for use in it’s airspace system. I’m not sure that there are laws/regulations for accomplishing this approval process in Singapore, or how long they would take to develop. Now how about Dubai?

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