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SENTINEL EXPRESS C O M M E R C E

VOLUME 32

C I T Y

TTUESDAY , ,NDOVEMBER 2020 UESDAY ECEMBER 24, 8, 2020

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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit dining, personal Colorado’s space indoor race taking off gatherings Colorado Air and Spaceport officially signs agreement to build a spaceplane BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado has made its giant leap towards the future of passenger space travel to Europe within an hour by 2028. The Colorado Air and Spaceport, Director Dave Ruppel signed an agreement with Shuji Ogawa, CEO, and CTO, PD AeroSpace, LTD Dec. 2 to start the process to develop a fully-reusable horizontal suborbital passenger space plane called Pegasus at its Nagoya, Japan facilities. “This morning we signed this important dream agreement. It marks an important step in the process of Colorado Air and Spaceport Director Dave Ruppel and the Weld County Commissioners traveled to Nagoya, Japan to sign the letter of turning our facility at Colorado Air intent, and to meet the PD Aerospace staff in Hekinan city, which is just outside of Nagoya. Japan. The group is standing behind an and Spaceport into a world-class example of an experimental model of a X02A high speed flight plane. COURTESY OF PDAS point of operations for our Aerois more than one small step in our its mutual roles and milestones to space Partners, like PD Aerospace Former Front Range Airport is relationship with PD Aerospace.” implement our partnership and colreaction engines and many more,” located 35 minutes from downtown laboration. Also, it begins coordinasaid Jim Siedlecki Adams County Denver it was renamed Colorado tion with the United States Federal Director of Public Information. Air and Spaceport. What does this mean for PD Aerospace? “With a robust Aerospace industry Aviation Administration to begin Ogawa, in his Nagoya, Japan Ogawa said the agreement is a in Colorado there was immediate in- their test flights here in the U.S,” crucial step for both Colorado and headquarters, signed a Japanese Siedlecki added. terest from potential Partners here Nagoya. language copy of the agreement There will be various spaceport in America, in the state, and across “I would like to express sincere apwhile Adams County Manager the globe by the spring of 2019,” said conditions, environments as well preciation to those who are engaged Raymond Gonzales signed the as testing that are incorporated Siedlecki. in a discussion of this MOU and English language copy during the into the agreement for the vehicle Later in the spring of 2019, Colowith Adams County and Colorado Zoom meeting while Adams County design. Air and Spaceport and other relaCommissioners watched. Then, both rado Air and Spaceport received its Gonzales said the Dec. 2 event was operator’s license. So, spaceport and tions,” Ogawa said. “Thank you men documents on the Zoom screen the culmination of plenty of work. Weld County officials traveled to the very much. It is a notable important in celebration of a new frontier. “Today’s signing of the MOU research and development facility According to Ogawa, space planes step for our future. We can begin the marks important and met with the PD Aerospace collaboration coordination activities would fly up to 34,000 feet outside county is required to follow based on the By Ellisprogress Arnold in our relationship with PD Aerospace,” staff in Hekinan city, which the Earth’s atmosphere, spending with theofFederal Aviation Agency . A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site atis just severity a county’s local virus spread. Colorado Community Gonzales said. “It is trulyMedia has been outside of Nagoya, Japan. between four and eight minutes We can incorporate various condiRiverdale Regional Park. The site has hadThe to close early many days in recent The dial grew of the state’s safer-atPD Aerospace vehicles launch a collaborative effort when meetin zero gravity. Then, as the earth tions and theout environment of the weeks due highplane demand. testthe positivity rateColo- ingAs Denver metro counties home order into — the policy that came after the PD Aerospace. We continue have theto profile14-day matched license for rotates, the to space will flAdams y back County’s spaceport our vehicle designs. inchsupport closer to local stay-at-home orders full of the Colorado space the statewide stay-at-home order thisa lot rado air and Spaceport for a horidown and could land in We will certainly be faced with was 15.9 percent, as ofanywhere Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. coalition the Governor’s Office of zontal rates takeoff andboth landing. There Europe 60 to 90 minutes. Thepositivity of challenges. Wenumerous have some time, under Colorado’s system of coronavirusspring and allowed types of Brightonwithin and Commerce City’s test were higher than Economic Development and Nationwill be no vertical vehicle landings long-term objectives are to build a but I confi dent that we will achieve related restrictions, the state announced businesses to reopen. 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have al Trade Metro Denver Economic at the site. space hotel and do space mining. those together with the spaceport.” a new level of rules prohibits indoor The state recentlyCommissioners switched to color died from COVID-19 related health issues.“It Towas limittheir the spread of COVID-19, Development andthat Aurora Economic team’s ambition and Adams County dining and personal gatherings — a identifiers — levels blue, yellow and Development Corporation.” aspirationthat thatprohibits led to theindoor signing were also bullish. Important at least 15milestones counties moved to tighter restrictions and change that applies to the majority of the “We are all so grateful to have of a letter of intent in Tokyo,” orange rather than numbered — to In 2011 Adams County began its “When we arrived at PD’slevels research personal gatherings. bipartisan support from our consaid Siedlecki. “As of Dec. 2, we’re quest for a spaceport site operator’s and development facility the conDenver metro area and many counties in avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red gressional delegation in gaining the excited to announce that we are license through the Federal Avianection was instantorder. theirNow, teamlevel of other regions. meant a stay-at-home advancing that relationship with PD site operator’s license from the FAA tion Administration (FAA) office of hard-working dedicated employees COVID-19 dial, has red — us “severe the secondandThe state’s our elected officials atwhich the state AerospacePhoto leadersby from these two commercial space. The spaceport made feel risk” right— atishome,” Adams Belen Ward been in effect since September, is the set and local levels have been backentities that signed a memorandum site license was awarded in August County Vice Chairperson Commising our activities Coloradothat Aireach of different levels of at restrictions of understanding. It will outline of 2018 to the former Front Range Please see RESTRICTIONS, Page 2 and Spaceport signing. This MOU PD Aerospace’s intentions to define Airport in Watkins, Colorado. SEE SPACEPORT, P3

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