Company SpaceX build futuristic spaceport in Texas

Yesterday Habré publish news that the carrier rocket Falcon 9 SpaceX company owned by Elon Musk, has once again successfully launched. The start was done from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.

Besides Florida, SpaceX uses to launch their spaceships still Spaceport in California. But soon things can change, and launches will be made from the Baikonur, built in Texas. The new spaceport will be built in the district of Cameron, Texas.

Fact construction подтвержден Dale Ketchemom , director of strategic communications agency Space Florida. According to this official, this week, the official announcement is expected from Elon Musk.

In fact, the company mask, SpaceX, has received permission from the authorities (Federal Aviation Administration) on the 12 spacecraft launches year with a new cosmodrome in the area of ​​56, 5 acres. Musk plans to use Texas as the main launch site for flight "tourist flights" and missions paid by the governments of various countries.

Agency Bloomberg also confirms the fact construction, said that the new spaceport will have ultrafuturistichesky design. Despite the fact that the mask was given permission to 12 launches per year, his plans, as always, immense. Anyway, Musk wishes to prepare the launch site, so that from it can perform multiple runs vehicles per day (!). This can be useful after the official start of the Martian campaign.

In general, it all sounds quite unusual, but it is such, Elon Musk. This man looks to the future.

Incidentally, this is not the last spaceport, which should appear shortly. For example, the UK is going to host the new spaceport until 2018 . However, it is planned to place in Scotland, and there is just going to hold a referendum on secession from the empire. So it will be seen how the policy will affect the space in this case.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/229927/