A New Launch Complex Opens Up in the Ocean universetoday storybywill
by the company, this included: “regulatory approvals from the FAA and U.S. Coast Guard, scheduling, control of public access, range surveillance, hazard clearance, airspace integration, anomaly response, and remote launch vehicle ignition at sea.”
The successful demonstration also had the bonus of being on schedule and within budget. As The Spaceport Company founder and CEO Tom Marotta said in the“This demonstration provided numerous lessons which will be incorporated into our next project: building a sea-based spaceport capable of orbital operations. We are working towards offering the U.S.
For about sixty years since the dawn of the Space Age, all orbital launches were conducted exclusively from land, and all spent stages were ditched in the ocean. This is why we have the “Rocket Graveyard” off the coast of Florida and the “Spacecraft Cemetary” in the South Pacific, east of New Zealand. Since the late 1990s and especially in the past decade, this has changed with the introduction of marine platforms.
On the other hand, orbital launches at sea require sturdier and more robust platforms, which tend to favor facilities fixed to the ocean floor. However, mobile platforms have the advantage of being able to deploy where needed, offering a degree of flexibility that is otherwise not available. Several more mobile platforms are in the works, and this latest test guarantees that even more are likely to follow in the coming years.
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