Eldorado Posted January 22, 2021 #1 Share Posted January 22, 2021 A New Zealand-based company has received approval to fly a suborbital space plane from a conventional airport. Dawn Aerospace got the nod from the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to fly the company's Mk-II Aurora space plane, which is designed to send satellites into space on multiple flights a day, at a conventional airport whose name and location has not been disclosed yet. Usually such vehicles need to be launched at isolated facilities, because otherwise regulators need to shut down the local commercial air space to allow the space planes to fly out of the atmosphere. Full monty at Space dot com: Link 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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