Seed magazine (tagline: “Science is Culture”), has put online an article from its June/July print issue about the new, um, crop of spaceports springing up around the world. It’s a fairly straightforward, complimentary article about the emerging spaceport and space tourism industries, looking at both the emerging trends and challenges spaceport and vehicle operators are […]
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An article in the Singapore newspaper Today makes an interesting claim: that the spaceport planned for the island city-state will be “the world’s first commercial tourist spaceport.” The source of that claim is unclear, although the article sites the February announcement by Space Adventures about the spaceport project as “plans to develop the world’s first […] Yesterday was a big news for up-and-coming commercial spaceports that want to serve the space tourism market: Oklahoma’s spaceport at the former Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base has received its operators license from the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation. (The announcement was rather low-key: while the FAA issued a press release about the license, that […] Wednesday night’s CBS News broadcast included a two-minute, 45-second segment on plans to develop a commercial spaceport in New Mexico. The report was even-handed, and even optimistic about the prospects for space tourism at the spaceport, which today is still just empty land save for a small launch pad built for UP Aerospace’s sounding rockets. […] The AP has a review article on the “unprecedented rush to build snazzy commercial spaceports”, with a particular focus on efforts in New Mexico and Oklahoma. There’s not much new here, although the article thoughtfully includes a comparison to the last spaceport boom in the 1990s (some of the proposed spaceports listed on the map […] We’ve previously discussed here the conflicting accounts of a planned “spaceport” in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, which has been fueled by a bill passed by the state legislature earlier this year that creates a Wisconsin Aerospace Authority with the intent of establishing a spaceport in the city on the shores of Lake Michigan. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel […] Proposals for a European spaceport for Virgin Galactic in northern Sweden have been featured by the Invest in Sweden Agency (ISA), a government agency that works to attract foreign investment in the country. The short article notes that Virgin Galactic in particular is interested in establishing a spaceport at Kiruna, which already hosts sounding rocket […] The Bakersfield Californian [free registration required] reports today that the appropriations committee of the California Senate tabled a bill that would provide Mojave Airport with an $11-million loan that would be used to provide spaceport facilities there. It appears that the committee didn’t single out the bill: according to the article the legislation was tabled […] In his presentation about Rocketplane Kistler at the ISDC on Friday, company CEO George French suggested that the Oklahoma Spaceport would soon get its launch license. “Oklahoma is going to be getting their spaceport license very shortly, and it’s already been published in the federal record.” He said the license would be official in the […] |
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Spaceport Michigan?
The state of Michigan isn’t pursuing a spaceport, unlike next-door neaighbor Wisconsin (which may or may not be serious about a spaceport), but an editorial Friday in the Bay City Times suggests that the state should take the idea seriously. Why? Jobs and money, of course: “Don’t just think out of the box in trying […]