{"id":18394,"date":"2018-08-21T00:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceport-colorado-wins-faa-license\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T00:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:11:31","slug":"spaceport-colorado-wins-faa-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceport-colorado-wins-faa-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceport Colorado wins FAA license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> Colorado\u2019s Front Range Airport is getting a new name&nbsp;\u2014 the Colorado Air and Space Port \u2014 thanks to the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s approval of a spaceport license. The facility, six miles southeast of Denver International Airport in Adams County, won\u2019t be used for vertical rocket launches. Instead, it\u2019s approved for horizontal takeoff-and-launch operations like the procedures planned by British billionaire Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Orbit and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen\u2019s Stratolaunch venture. In an Associated Press report, airport director Dave Ruppel said the first space missions are probably at least five years away. Nevertheless, it\u2019s a \u201ctremendous feeling\u201d to win FAA approval, he said. There are 10 other FAA-licensed launch sites, spread from Florida and California to Alaska.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Colorado Air and Space Port\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4oNQmzyL0Bw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: Colorado\u2019s Front Range Airport is getting a new name&nbsp;\u2014 the Colorado Air and Space Port \u2014 thanks to the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s approval of a spaceport license. The facility, six miles southeast of Denver International Airport in Adams County, won\u2019t be used for vertical rocket launches. Instead, it\u2019s approved for horizontal takeoff-and-launch operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[291,5189,5021],"class_list":["post-18394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-spaceport-colorado","tag-spaceports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}