US firm to build sea-going rocket launch base prototype

A sounding rocket launches from a floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico in a test for The Spaceport Company's plans to operate floating launch platforms.

The Spaceport Company (TSC), a US-based space launch company, has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop a prototype for a sea-going mobile space launch complex. TSC said the prototype will be developed to demonstrate delivery to a mission-designed orbit and to test autonomy-like features of […]

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