#spaceport — Public Fediverse posts

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

Existing gas pipelines around Pecan Island as of #OpenStreetMap : https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2vGu

#RocketPropellant #Starbase #Louisiana #Spaceport

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117136108843361488

There were 176 orbital launch attempts from #US soil last year, nearly 10 times 📈 the number in 2013. A new national #SpaceTransportation policy calls for the development of more #spaceports to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries per year by 📆 2030. Another element aims for putting high-priority payloads into #orbit within 48 hours ⏱️ of need.

#SpaceRegulation #spaceport

🇨🇦 The #commercial orbital launch site Atlantic #Spaceport Complex* no longer requires additional environmental reviews and can move ahead to construction 🏗️ and operations https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/01/canadas-first-commercial-spaceport-approval/

* Pictures : #NordSpace https://www.nordspace.com/spaceport

🗺️ #StLawrence, #Newfoundland and #Labrador, #Canada https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=46.900236%2C-55.350628&layer=OpenStreetMap

#Spain 🇪🇸 tried to get the #European #SpaceAgency to choose the Canary Islands, instead of French Guiana, as #ESA's launch 🚀 base. #ElHierro* is at the same northern latitude as #CapeCanaveral https://en.unav.edu/web/global-affairs/del-aeropuerto-al-spaceport-aumenta-la-lista-de-los-puertos-espaciales

* 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Punta+de+los+Frailes&layer=Cyclosm

#Spaceport #Europe

Let's goooo!
Our first commercial #rocket #launch is today in #StLawrenceNFLD by #NordSpace.

#Canada #Science #RocketLaunch #Space #Canadian #Newfoundland #NFLD #Spaceport

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nordspace-st-lawrence-launch-1.7620025

There are only 2 "#spaceport" 🚀 so far in #OpenStreetMap which pretended to be one unless they never launched something to #space 🌌 (for a considerable amount of time) : #SpaceportAmerica and #CornRanch (#BlueOrigin's #NewShepard launch site) https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/aeroway%3Asuborbital#values. #SpaceportCornwall 🛫 has never been one (other than for propaganda) https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1105816254

There's a considerable amount of #launchpad ⚪ (#balloon 🎈, #research #rockets...) https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=launchpad#values

#SpaceFlight #Orbit #DeepSpace

What's the minimum requirement to call #launch 🚀 infrastructure a "#spaceport" ? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Dspaceport

#CornRanch #BlueOrigin #NewShepard #SpaceportCornwall #VirginOrbit

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