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    The Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field (IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV) is in Mojave, California, United States, at an elevation of 2,801 feet (854 m). It...
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    and former public official. For over a decade he was CEO of Virgin Galactic, a firm developing commercial space vehicles at the Mojave Air and Space Port...
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    Fellow, and served on the board of directors for the Mojave Air and Space Port. As a commercial, test, and instructor pilot, he logged more than 10,800 hours...
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  • company's Mojave Air and Space Port facilities. Deneb is a 15,000 lbf (67 kN) staged combustion cycle engine that uses liquid oxygen (LOX) and methane as...
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    formerly known as the Mojave Airport, is now part of the Mojave Air and Space Port. In 1935, Kern County established the Mojave Airport 0.5 miles (0.8 km)...
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    Witt, Mojave Airport reclassified itself as the Mojave Air and Space Port. Flight 15P on June 21, 2004, was SpaceShipOne's first spaceflight, and the first...
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    after taking off from the Mojave Air and Space Port. The test flight was the aircraft's first powered flight in nine months, and was to include the first...
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    and performed a conventional runway landing. The spaceship was officially unveiled to the public on 7 December 2009 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in...
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  • Anatomic Mojave Road Mojave Air and Space Port Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave, a type of helicopter Kia Mohave, a sport-utility vehicle Piper PA-31 Mojave, a piston...
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    Spaceport (redirect from Space port)
    tradition, in June 2004 on a runway at Mojave Air and Space Port, California, a human was for the first time launched to space in a privately funded, suborbital...
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  • program. It completed its first flight on August 29, 2024, at Mojave Air and Space Port. The Model 437 first began as a loyal wingman drone in 2021, based...
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  • Scaled Composites (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman. It is located at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, United States...
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    Stratolaunch Systems (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    carrier aircraft first flew in April 2019, at the Mojave Air and Space Port, reaching 15,000 ft (4,600 m) and 190 mph (305 km/h) during a 2 hour 29 minute...
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  • XCOR Aerospace (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    spaceflight and rocket engine development company based at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, Midland International Air and Spaceport...
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    into space by a launch vehicle, then re-enters Earth's atmosphere and lands as a spaceplane. The X-37 is operated by the Department of the Air Force...
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    Rotary Rocket (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    angel investors and opened a factory headquartered in a 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m2) facility at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. The...
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    LauncherOne (category Space launch vehicles of the United States)
    legislation. The carrier plane lifted off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, United States and Newquay Airport in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The...
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  • X-15 and SpaceShipTwo, and uncrewed ones, such as ICBMs and sounding rockets. Flights which attain sufficient velocity to go into low Earth orbit, and then...
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    California City, California (category Cities in the Mojave Desert)
    (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation), Mojave Air and Space Port (and its flight test facility) and the Hyundai/Kia Proving Grounds, located...
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  • Stuart O. Witt (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    the Founder and Owner of S.O. Witt & Associates, LLC. Witt is the former CEO of Mojave Air and Space Port and a member of the National Space Council Users...
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    Scaled Composites Stratolaunch (category Space tourism)
    its specially constructed hangar was being built at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California. In October 2012, the first of two manufacturing...
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  • conducted its first flight from Mojave Air and Space Port. The flight reached a maximum altitude of 7,120 feet (2,170 m) and a top speed of 246 knots (456 km/h;...
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    temporarily stored in the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California until construction begins. The Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, is a new building...
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    Masten Space Systems was an aerospace manufacturer startup company in Mojave, California (formerly in Santa Clara, California) that was developing a line...
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  • Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) is a company founded by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan to handle the commercial spinoffs from the Tier One project. It owns...
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    Lockheed Martin CATBird (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    contract by BAE Systems Inc. at their facility at the Mojave Spaceport. Work began in December, 2003, and the aircraft began post-modification taxi tests in...
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    Sharp Nemesis (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    Formula One racing aircraft designed by Jon Sharp and built at the Mojave Airport by the Nemesis Air Racing Team. The aircraft is powered by a modified...
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  • Calspan (category Mojave Air and Space Port)
    Research Center in Niagara Falls, New York, and remote flight test operations at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and Patuxent River, Maryland. Calspan also...
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    Force Base. On 19 January 2022, an anomaly during testing at Mojave Air and Space Port resulted in the destruction of the second stage of the RS1 rocket...
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    Birgenair Flight 301 (category Airliner accidents and incidents caused by instrument failure)
    engines. After Eastern Air Lines' bankruptcy and subsequent liquidation in 1991, the aircraft was stored at the Mojave Air and Space Port for more than a year...
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