How does this sound: Fly from Denver to anywhere in the world within 3 hours. In addition, you can skip the DIA security line. If there is a road in Adams County, that dream will manifest itself in the Colorado Aerospace Port (CASP).
Formerly known as the Front Range Airport, the General Aviation Center was renamed in 2018 when it was licensed for space operations from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). However, it is one of the 13 FAA-approved spaceports and is basically a commercial spaceport. Don’t expect dramatic rocket launches, as opposed to NASA’s Cape Canaveral Complex. Instead, CASP has a spaceplane that takes off and landing like a traditional aircraft, but can leave the atmosphere temporarily.
Adams County is convinced that space travel costumes can use this technique to move back and forth between rapid suborbital flights by the end of the decade. CASP officials want the site to be the perfect place for space travelers, says Deputy County Mayor Jim Seedrecki. -One hour drive through the desert to New Mexico’s rival Spaceport America. “Then maybe they wrap [their trip] It’s about a weekend that includes a Rockies match and a 14-person hike, “he says. “That’s what we imagine when we think about the future.”
Nor is there any reason why these spaceplanes have to land on CASP. In short, it could be a hub for airliners that can travel to the other side of the globe in just a few hours. The facility has already agreed with Spaceport Cornwall in the United Kingdom to do just that when the technology becomes available.
It’s a plan anyway, but for now, CASP is still a common aviation airport. “A dedicated spaceport is one trick pony that is currently struggling to make money,” says Siedlecki. “Aviation will pay us to move forward, and it would be great if there was a turning point where aerospace began to make more money. It has the ability to handle both.”
Over 3,300: Speed, miles / hour, future spaceplane will be reachable after takeoff in CASP
The need for speed
A company in Colorado is betting the future on supersonic airliners, a concept decades ago.
When Concorde retired in 2003, supersonic air travel followed the Dodo road: no flight. Today, Denver start-ups are working to recover from extinction a passenger plane that breaks the sound barrier. Boom Supersonic’s 65-88 seat overture passenger planes have no plans to board passengers until 2029 at the earliest, but the company has already signed a contract to provide United Airlines with 15 planes, from American Express and others. With an investment of $ 770 million, the US Air Force is currently looking for a High Speed Air Force 1. This is all about hype.
Cruise altitude
Large electronic devices can be used at about 60,000 feet, above about two long peaks on today’s airliners, high enough to start darkening the sky.
Sunny weather
Boom plans to use sustainable aviation fuels made from renewable biomass (think algae and fertilizers). This can help the company achieve carbon neutrality.
All business
While individual airlines set final prices, Boom is designing a profitable overture with fares comparable to current business-class tickets.
maximum speed
The overture should reach Mach 1.7, or about 1,300 mph. This is fast enough to reduce the current flight time from New York to London by three hours.
range
Boom planes travel 4,888 miles without refueling. This is 700 miles from Concorde and the distance from Seattle to Tokyo.
Ground work
We don’t trust college students to rent our Subaru, but that didn’t stop CU Boulder from giving them the keys to the multi-million dollar satellite.
The University of Colorado at Boulder is renowned for producing future astronauts, but current students are more than a decade of rigorous and highly specialized to become astronauts to reach beyond the Earth. You don’t have to complete the specialized training. “They have to take what we call Spacecraft 101,” says Dan Baker, director of CU’s LASP.
Extracurricular lessons teach interested undergraduate students how to operate and maintain satellites. Then, after passing a series of tests that are as difficult as the finals they have taken so far, they will be adopted by LASP. Classes typically have 20-30 students on staff to monitor missions initiated in partnership with NASA, private companies, and even foreign countries (such as the United Arab Emirates) that require LASP expertise. I often stop by in between.
By the time students get their degree, they’ll learn how to collect data from rare space phenomena such as black holes while maximizing ward life, like NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. You can prepare for. Manage the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. LASP has led the education of student flight controllers, but several other institutions, including Denver’s Metropolitan State University, have recently collaborated with companies that donate aging satellites to similar projects. Launched (often tax deductible). “That’s what things should be,” Baker says. “Academic institutions like us need to provide opportunities for students to participate and give a real see-off to the world of professionals.”
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