Orbital Outfitters Breaks Ground on Texas Testing Facility

摘要

The Texas city hosting the newest commercial spaceport in the United States will also be home to a facility one company is building for the development and testing of pressure suits and other space hardware. An Oct. 27 ceremony at the Midland International Air and Space Port in Midland, Texas, to mark the receipt of a spaceport license from the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation also served as a groundbreaking for the Midland Altitude Chamber Complex at the airport. The 1,635-square-meter facility is being built by Orbital Outfitters, a company developing pressure suits for commercial spaceflight companies. Its customers include XCOR Aerospace, a suborbital launch vehicle developer that announced plans in 2012 to move from Mojave, California, to Midland.