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Spaceports

This sounds like something you read in science fiction but there are currently 22 spaceports in the world today and dozens more are on the way.

Many of these aren’t going to be your stereotypical launch sites where miles of barbed wire surround cement pads in the middle of nowhere. No, many will look like this spaceport design that was developed for the Spaceport Japan Association.

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There are so many spaceports coming that it’s hard to keep track. In the US, the planned and active sites can be found all over the country from Kodiak island in Alaska down to the new Spaceport America in New Mexico.

The UK will have at least three and Japan just approved a spaceport for Virgin Galactic. India is building a second in the country’s south and Indonesia is building one off the coast of New Guinea. New Zealand, Kenya, the Azores islands and Brazil all have sites planned or in use already.

SpaceX (who else) is even planning floating spaceports that will be connected to shore by hyperloops.

All of these spaceports have one thing in common — serving the explosive space economy that is expected to be worth $1 trillion this year.

Whether it’s tourism in orbit, carrying cargo to the several new space stations now being built or sending up thousands of more satellites, our future in space promises to be incredibly lucrative.

At some point we will even have factories in space, where micro-gravity environments can be extremely beneficial for manufacturing. The company Made in Space, for example, will be sending the first ceramics factory to the ISS station soon.

This site regularly updates a long list of companies planning to use space for building new products. These include the very high-tech things you expect to make in space like complex proteins and fiber optics, but also stuff like new types of beer and roasted coffee.
['Craig Brett']
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