Mojave Air and Space Port

ARTIFACT
Date: 2023 | Photo by: Chris Griffith

It is the first facility to be licensed in the United States for horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft. Mojave Spaceport has been a test site for several teams in the Ansari X Prize, most notably the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne, which conducted the first privately funded human sub-orbital flight on June 21, 2004. Other groups based at the Mojave Spaceport include or have included XCOR Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company, Stratolaunch Systems, and Firestar Technologies.

Type
Launch Complex
Vehicle
SpaceShipOne
Name
Mojave Air and Space Port
Status
Active
Location
Mojave, California