Colorado company partners with Los Alamos National Laboratory on rocket launch and cuts costs in the process

Last week, Spaceport America announced that one of its four tenants partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratory in August to perform a test flight, which is expected to be followed by many more.

Aboard the UP Aerospace rocket, which launched Aug. 11, was a research payload developed by the lab that relayed flight data such as acceleration and rotation to a Department of Defense satellite already in orbit. Test flights would typically take place over the Pacific Ocean at a potential price tag of…

Source: The Business Journal