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Spaceport Singapore

Posted by Zonk on from the more-launches-can't-be-a-bad-thing dept.

FleaPlus writes "In addition to last week's news of a spaceport in the UAE, Space Adventures has announced that they will also be building a spaceport in Singapore by 2009. The spaceport will offer flights on a variety of vehicles, such as a Russian-built suborbital spaceplane, fighter jets, and Vomit Comet-style weightless parabolas. Space Adventures will be competing with other fully-funded suborbital spaceflight companies, such as Virgin Galactic and Rocketplane."

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  1. I don't get it. by artifex2004 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If all of these people are offering sub-orbital flights, who are the customers?
    At least so long as these are just joyrides, they remain too expensive to attract a sustainable base.
    And I have a hard time seeing business trips really needing that much speed, either, not when you could videoconference for several magnitudes smaller.

    Time-sensitive cargo, like organs for transplantation, maybe. But that's still a rich person's game. And the amount of time it takes on the ground before and after hitting a hub city still make it quite unlikely.