UP Aerospace
UP Aerospace, Inc. is a US aerospace company based in Denver , Colorado .
The company builds and launches sounding rockets and transports payloads suborbitally into space for relatively low costs. Customers are the military, schools, universities or the Celestis funeral home. Jerry Larson is the company's president and Eric Knight is the general manager. The company has annual sales of $ 4 million.
So far, the company has made two types of missiles : SpaceLoft and SpaceLoft XL . These will be launched at the newly built Spaceport America spaceport in New Mexico.
The first launch was on September 25, 2006, but it was a failure. The payload was a scientific experiment from the University of Colorado Boulder and a private payload on board. The first successful flight took place on April 28, 2007, when, among other things, the ashes of actor James Doohan were on board. Doohan was best known for his role as "Scotty" in the US television series " Star Trek ". At the start of SL-7, according to its own information, an altitude record of 119 km was set for Spaceport America.
Web links
- Website of UP Aerospace (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ About UP Aerospace Inc. UP Aerospace, accessed April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Jeff Kass: Tiny UP Aerospace opening space niche with NM flight. Rocky Mountain News, September 23, 2006; archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 31, 2014 (English).
- ↑ US private space rocket crashes. BBC, September 26, 2006, accessed January 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Welcome to UP Aerospace Past Missions. UP Aerospace, June 21, 2013, archived from the original on July 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 31, 2014 (English).