# Spaceport America

*Test range*

Spaceport America, New Mexico

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| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 32.9900° N, 106.9700° W |
| State | US |
| What is done there | suborbital flight range |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

Spaceport America, formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport, is an FAA-licensed spaceport located on 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of State Trust Land in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin of the United States, 45 miles (72 km) north of Las Cruces, New Mexico and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Truth or Consequences. With Virgin Galactic's launch of the VSS Unity, with three people aboard, on May 22, 2021, New Mexico became the third US state to launch humans into space after California and Florida.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=32.99,-106.97
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceport_America
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.