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Spaceport Colorado Awaits FAA Licensing Decision Later This Year

Pat Host

Wednesday, April 19th, 2017

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Spaceport Colorado Awaits FAA Licensing Decision Later This Year

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Colorado hopes to have an answer from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on its spaceport site operator license application later this year, according to a key official.Spaceport Colorado Airport Director Dave Ruppel told Defense Daily Wednesday that paperwork was submitted a year ago and now Colorado is going through the pre-review process. The FAA, he said, takes your application and runs it past other FAA divisions to evaluate concerns. Once that takes place, Ruppel said an environmental assessment begins to…

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