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UP Aerospace Launches 23rd Suborbital Flight from Spaceport America

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Business Honor
21 November, 2025

UP Aerospace launched its 23rd suborbital rocket, carrying LANL payloads, improving New Mexico’s growing space research and industry partnerships.

UP Aerospace successfully launched its 23rd suborbital space flight from Spaceport America. A payload from LANL was lifted by the rocket to a height of 72 miles. Another important turning point in the partnership between UP Aerospace and the New Mexico Spaceport Authority is the 7 a.m. launch.

The aim highlights how important local partnerships are to the development of space science. Research supported by the federal government may be successfully conducted in New Mexico due to LANL's partnership with UP Aerospace, Spaceport America, and the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range. Redwire Space and NASA Ames Research Center were among the other partners on the journey. This suggests a rising interest in space based testing and development.

According to McLaughlin, "New Mexico's space industry is growing, and it's great to see organizations from our state and beyond working together." "Launches like this support our local partners, and the spaceport is having an increasing financial effect." At Spaceport America, UP Aerospace maintains a payload processing facility and launch complex. Nearly 200 people attended the launch of its SpaceLoft-XL 18 rocket, showing the increasing interest of the public in commercial space operations.

"Working with local businesses makes research quicker, strengthens the financial system, and creates lasting infrastructure," LANL highlighted the importance of partnership. New Mexico's growing aerospace industry may make the state a center for independent orbital launches, recoverable commercial space travel, and space-based manufacturing.