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Mojave Air and Space Port. / 35.05944°N 118.15167°W / 35.05944; -118.15167. The Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field [2] ( IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV) is in Mojave, California, United States, at an elevation of 2,801 feet (854 m). [3] It is the first facility to be licensed in the United States for horizontal launches of reusable ...
Ed Heinemann. Ted R. Smith. The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace and defense company based in Southern California. Founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr., it merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas, where it operated as a division. McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing in 1997.
Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California . Rocketdyne was founded as a division of North American Aviation in 1955 and was later part of Rockwell International from 1967 until 1996 and Boeing from 1996 ...
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. [1] Founded in 1936 by Caltech researchers, the laboratory is now owned and sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and administered and managed by the California Institute of Technology.
Space Park is an aerospace engineering campus occupying over 100 acres in Redondo Beach, California, since 1961, expanding in 1968 to a nearly adjacent 90 acres in Manhattan Beach [3] (15 of which were developed as public sports facilities between 1987 and 2001; [4] 22 of which were sold in 1996 and became the Manhattan Beach Studios Media ...
The company was founded in New Zealand in 2006. [19] By 2009, [20] the successful launch of Ātea-1 [20] made the organization the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space. [19] The company established headquarters in California, U.S. in 2013 [21] and developed the expendable [22] Electron rocket. [23]
Rohr, Inc. is an aerospace manufacturing company based in Chula Vista, California, south of San Diego. It is a wholly owned unit of the Collins Aerospace division of Raytheon Technologies; [1] it was founded in 1940 by Frederick H. Rohr as Rohr Aircraft . Rohr's main product line are aerostructures, such as engine -related components, including ...
The Aerospace Corporation is an American nonprofit corporation that operates a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in El Segundo, California.The corporation provides technical guidance and advice on all aspects of space missions to military, civil, and commercial customers. [1]