#spaceport — Public Fediverse posts

Andøya, Norway
The German startup Isar Aerospace launches its unmanned Spectrum rocket into orbit. Saturday’s launch from from the Andøya Spaceport marked a breakthrough for Europe, which wants to send satellites into space independently, reducing its reliance on the US amid the shifting global order.

Photograph: Isar Aerospace/AFP/Getty Images

#Norway
#Andoya
#Aerospace
#spaceport

The Moon’s planned first spaceport will have no runways, taxiways or gate announcements—NASA’s Gateway will follow an invisible orbit sculpted by the gravity of Earth and the Moon, and engineers have now published the first detailed strategies for keeping visiting spacecraft safely separated while they wait to dock.
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=the-moons-planned-first-spaceport-will-have-no-runways-taxiways-or-gate-announcementsnasas-gateway-will-follow-an-invisible-orbit-sculpted-by-the-gravity-of-earth-and-the-moon-and-engineers-have-now-published-the-first-detailed-strategies-for-keeping-visiting-spacecraft-safely-separated-while-they-wait-to-dock
<p>A new traffic-management study tests how Gateway and visiting spacecraft could wait in the same
#spaceport #taxiways #visiting #planned

#TheAdvocate:
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Letters: SpaceX project represents a state of emergency for Louisiana’s land, water, culture
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".. I’m no wordsmith, but regrettably I feel sure that we, the people of Louisiana, need to wake up and vote for politicians who care and listen and are not opportunists. .."

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters-spacex-pollution-danger/article_570a64af-c6ab-5b4a-96d5-81f92770000b.html

2.9.2026

#Louisiana #Pollution #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpacePort #SpaceX #Umweltverschmutzung #USA #VermilionParish

#MMX recently completed its journey to the #spaceport on #Tanegashima island. The mission will launch 🚀 on Japan's flagship #H3 rocket some time in November or December of this year https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/japans-audacious-sample-return-mission-to-the-mars-moon-phobos-has-made-it-to-the-launch-pad

#Martian #Moons #eXploration #Mars #Phobos

🇲🇾 #Malaysia is poised to become the first country in Southeast Asia 🌏 to have its own space launch facility by 2029, with three potential sites identified in #Pahang, #Sarawak, and #Sabah. Glavkosmos, a subsidiary of #Roscosmos, is in discussions on the potential development of a #spaceport in Sabah* https://maia.my/news/qhazanah-sabah-russias-glavkosmos-explore-collaboration-space-launch-facility

* 🗺️ https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3879783

The Fifth Element (1997): 2263 New York and its spaceport, art by Jean-Claude Mézières
Matte painting by Wayne Haag and Kevin Mack.
#scifi #thefifthelement #spaceship #spaceport #newyork #NY #mezieres #conceptart #mattepainting #1997 #2263