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Colorado’s space race taking off THE SEASON FOR SHARING WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 , 2020
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Colorado Air and Spaceport Director Dave Ruppel and the Weld County Commissioners traveled to Nagoya, Japan to sign the letter of intent, and to meet the PD Aerospace staff in Hekinan city, which is just outside of Nagoya. Japan. The group is standing behind an example of an experimental model of a X02A high speed flight plane. COURTESY OF PDAS
Colorado Air and Spaceport officially signs agreement to build a spaceplane
point of operations for our AeroIn 2011 Adams County began its profile matched the license for Colospace Partners, like PD Aerospace quest for a spaceport site operator’s rado air and Spaceport for a horireaction engines and many more,” license through the Federal Aviazontal takeoff and landing. There said Jim Siedlecki Adams County tion Administration (FAA) office of will be no vertical vehicle landings Director of Public Information. commercial space. The spaceport at the site. Ogawa, in his Nagoya, Japan site license was awarded in August “It was their team’s ambition and headquarters, signed a Japanese of 2018 to the former Front Range aspiration that led to the signing language copy of the agreement Airport in Watkins, Colorado. of a letter of intent in Tokyo,” BY BELEN WARD while Adams County Manager Former Front Range Airport is said Siedlecki. “As of Dec. 2, we’re BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM Raymond Gonzales signed the located 35 minutes from downtown excited to announce that we are English language copy during the Denver it was renamed Colorado Colorado has made its giant leap advancing that relationship with PD Zoom meeting while Adams County Air and Spaceport. towards the future of passenger Aerospace leaders from these two Commissioners watched. Then, both “With a robust Aerospace industry entities that signed a memorandum space travel to Europe within an men documents on the Zoom screen in Colorado there was immediate in- of understanding. It will outline hour by 2028. in celebration of a new frontier. terest from potential Partners here The Colorado Air and Spaceport, PD Aerospace’s intentions to define According to Ogawa, space planes in America, in the state, and across Director Dave Ruppel signed an its mutual roles and milestones to would fly up to 34,000 feet outside the globe by the spring of 2019,” said implement our partnership and colagreement with Shuji Ogawa, CEO, the Earth’s atmosphere, spending Siedlecki. and CTO, PD AeroSpace, LTD Dec. laboration. Also, it begins coordinabetween four and eight minutes Later in the spring of 2019, Colo2 to start the process to develop a tion with the United States Federal in zero gravity. Then, as the earth rado Air and Spaceport received its fully-reusable horizontal suborbital Aviation Administration to begin rotates, the space plane will fly back operator’s license. So, spaceport and their test flights here in the U.S,” passenger space plane called Pegadown and could land anywhere in Weld County officials traveled to the sus at its Nagoya, Japan facilities. Siedlecki added. Every year before Thanksgiving, First United Methodist Church in Fort Lupton and the Fort Lupton Food and Clothing Bank provide community Europe within 60 to 90 minutes. The research and development facility “This morning we signed this imThere will be various spaceport members with food boxes. This will be the program’s 10th consecutive year. Above, Joe Hubert, left China Garcia and Sue Hubert Change 4as Change, long-term objectives are to build a and met with the PD Aerospace portant dream agreement. It marks conditions, with environments well domore spaceon mining. staff in Hekinan city, which is just an important step in the of thespace as testing that are incorporated another organization thatprocess helps with foodhotel drive.and See Page 2. outside of Nagoya, Japan. turning our facility at Colorado Air The PD Aerospace vehicles launch and Spaceport into a world-class Important milestones SEE SPACEPORT, P6
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