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UP Aerospace, Inc. is a private spaceflight corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. UP Aerospace provides ultra-low cost space access and payload transportation for corporate, military and educational payloads, via their SpaceLoft XL sounding rocket launch vehicles. 〔 (PROFILE: Want to shoot a payload into space? Perez is your man ), Las Cruces Sun-News, 2010-10-18, accessed 2010-10-19.〕 == History and Future Plans == UP Aerospace was started in the late 1990s by Jerry Larson, an aerospace engineer who had long been involved in the space program as an employee of Lockheed Martin. Larson was also a member of the Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT), which in 2004 became the first amateur organization to launch a rocket into space. The company was incorporated in 2004. The first launch of the SpaceLoft XL occurred on September 25, 2006 from Spaceport America in Upham, New Mexico. The vehicle failed to go higher than 40,000 ft due to a malfunction attributed to faulty fin design and unexpected aerodynamic effects. UP Aerospace has conducted eight launches from Spaceport America during 2006-2009, including three in 2009〔 〕 They plan to "double the number of customer launches from Spaceport America to six or more in 2010 as demand for the company's services increases." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UP Aerospace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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