UP Aerospace, Inc. is a private 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...
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UP Aerospace, Inc. is a private 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.
UP Aerospace has conducted eight launches from Spaceport America during 2006-2009, including three in 2009 They plan to "double [the]] number of customer launches from Spaceport America to six or more in 2010 as demand for the company's services increases."
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...
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