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Spaceloft-5 mission
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UP Aerospace completed the successful mission of Spaceloft-5 on the 20th May, 2011.  A new record was set for Spaceport America by SL-5 with an altitude of 73.5 miles.

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The New Mexico Spaceport Authority announced Wednesday what it called a successful launch from Spaceport America in southern Sierra County.
The unannounced, unpublicised launch by Connecticut-based UP Aerospace was the third launch attempt by the company.

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Same place, much different result: Spaceport America is officially open.
For the first time, a vehicle launched from New Mexico's fledgling commercial spaceport in southern Sierra County reached space as the SpaceLoft SL-2 rocket built by UP Aerospace of Farmington, Conn. made history at 8:58 a.m. MDT Saturday.

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Colorado-built rocket is scheduled to transport some unusual cargo into space in April: the ashes of some well-known space types.
Connecticut-based UP Aerospace, which builds its 20-foot rockets in Highlands Ranch, plans to carry the cremated remains of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper as well as those of the actor who played Scotty in the TV series Star Trek, James Doohan. The company's next launch is scheduled for mid-to-late April.
Last September, UP Aerospace's maiden launch from New Mexico's spaceport crash-landed in the desert after failing to reach suborbital space. The company says the cause was a "correctable aerodynamic issue."

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UP Aerospace, a privately held rocket company, is betting that your beloved is less likely to say no to a marriage proposal if you blast the engagement ring into outer space before popping the question.
UP Aerospace promises to send stamps, coins, rings and even your Aunt Gerty's ashes on an affordable four-minute ride through space and then parachute the items to the ground.

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Even though the first launch from Spaceport America spiralled out of control and crashed Monday, its failure should not jeopardize a perceived space-related economic benefit along Interstate 25 from Las Cruces to Socorro and beyond.
That is the view of state and UP Aerospace officials after Monday’s launch of a payload of mementos and the cremated remains of at least one person.

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A private US space rocket which blasted off from a site in New Mexico malfunctioned before it reached space, organisers have said.

SpaceLoft XL launched at 14:14 local time (20:14 GMT) from Spaceport America, a desert launch site.
But it veered off course at an altitude of about 12,190m (40,000ft) and crash-landed in the desert.
The rocket was carrying about 50 items, including some cremated remains and school science projects.

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The SpaceLoft XL unmanned rocket took off from its launch pad at 2:14 p.m. MT (4:14 p.m. ET), but failed in its mission to reach suborbital space.
Something apparently went wrong, causing the rocket to spiral and reach an altitude of only 12 kms, before it crashed back just north of the launch site on the White Sands Missile Range.

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UP Aerospace's launch of its SpaceLoft XL rocket was delayed a few hours this morning but expected to happen around 10:30 a.m. from Spaceport America in Upham.

The 13-minute suborbital flight, among the first from a commercial spaceport in the United States, will hurtle 50 experimental and other payloads about 70 miles above Earth.
The rocket is expected to land at White Sands Missile Range, about 33 miles northeast of the Upham launch site.
Originally scheduled for around 7:30 a.m., the launch was delayed this morning to fix a transponder.

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New Mexico's first commercial rocket launch could come as soon as Monday, potentially paving the way for the US state to become a major centre of the space tourism industry.
Colorado-based UP Aerospace is set to launch a SpaceLoft XL suborbital rocket on its maiden voyage at 07:30 MDT (13:30 GMT), 25th September.

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The flight will carry multiple experimental and commercial payloads for a variety of scholastic and business entities. After traveling into space, the rocket and its payloads will land in the downrange area of the Spaceport. The inaugural space launch was announced on September 7th, at 2:00 PM MT at New Mexico’s State Capitol Building in Santa Fe.
UP Aerospace plans to launch a SpaceLoft XL rocket early Monday from Spaceport America in Upham, N.M., about 95 miles northwest of El Paso. The 13-minute suborbital flight, among the first from a commercial spaceport in the United States, will hurtle 50 experimental and other payloads about 70 miles above Earth.

"This is a milestone event in the history of aerospace. For the first time in all of space flight, a facility is now available for regularly scheduled, private space launches. Thanks to the vision of the State of New Mexico, as well as the aerospace capabilities provided by our company, the ‘final frontier’ is now open to everyone" - Eric Knight, CEO of UP Aerospace.

UP Aerospace has the capability to launch up to 30 space launches per year from New Mexico’s Spaceport.

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SpaceShipOne was the first privately manned rocket to reach space in a 2004 suborbital flight from the Mojave Desert Airport in California.
The rocket to be launched Monday is expected to land at White Sands Missile Range, about 33 miles northeast of the Upham launch site.

Several other UP Aerospace flights have been scheduled for later this year, including an Oct. 21 flight that is expected to carry the ashes of James Doohan, who gained worldwide notoriety for his portrayal of chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the original "Star Trek" TV series, Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, and several other people.
The Upham launch site is also the planned home of a state-built $225 million spaceport. Richard Branson, the British billionaire founder of the Virgin Group, announced plans last year to headquarter his space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, in New Mexico and launch flights from the spaceport by the end of this decade.

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