UP Aerospace

UP Aerospace

Infobox_Company
company_name = UP Aerospace, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = Unlimited Possibilities for Business & Education
foundation =
location = Denver, Colorado
key_people =
num_employees =
owner =
industry = Aerospace
products =
homepage = [http://www.upaerospace.us.com/ Official website]

UP Aerospace, Inc. is a spaceflight corporation based out of Denver, Colorado. UP Aerospace intends to provide ultra-low cost space access and payload transportation for corporate, military and educational payloads, via their SpaceLoft and SpaceLoft XL Sounding rocket launch vehicles. The first launch of the SpaceLoft XL occurred on September 25, 2006 from Spaceport America in Upham, New Mexico. The vehicle failed to go higher than 40,000 ft due to a malfunction attributed to faulty fin design and unexpected aerodynamic effects.

On April 28, 2007, some of the cremated remains of actor
James Doohan, who played Chief Engineer Scott on the 1960s television series Star Trek, and from astronaut Gordon Cooper, were rocketed into suborbital space (along with ashes of about 200 other people) by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America. This was the first successful launch from the site. [http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_5020731,00.html] [http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=070428&cat=news&st=newsd8opp19g0&src=ap]

As of August, 2007, UP Aerospace began offering low-cost launches to youth and students through the Space Generation Advisory Council. Under this arrangement members of the Space Generation can send their own experiments or novelty payloads into space for as low as US$2000 per experiment. From 2008, the Space Generation Advisory Council will host a range of competitions for youth to address specific technical or logistical challenges through the design of their own UP Aerospace TinySat module.

In April 2008, UP Aerospace was hired by the large US aerospace company Lockheed Martin to provide launch services at Spaceport America for a test rocket program. Lockheed Martin stated that they are trying to create a lower-cost-to-orbit cargo service, using a winged vehicle launched atop a land-based rocket. UP Aerospace and the New Mexico location were chosen to aid in testing prototype systems. UP Aerospace was chosen, particularly, because of their experience launching rockets at Spaceport America. [Martin & Diven 2008what]

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Citation
last = Martin
first = Bob
author-link = http://www.krqe.com/Global/story.asp?S=6654518&nav=menu588_7_6_2
last2 = Diven
first2 = Bill
author2-link =
title = Spaceport launch tests future spacecraft
date = 2008-04-16
year = 2008
url = http://www.krqe.com/global/story.asp?s=8173339
accessdate = 2008-04-17


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