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UP Aerospace

Denver company that has launched suborbital research rockets from Spaceport America since 2006, flying experiments for NASA, national labs and others. In 2025 it added Spyder, a rocket built for hypersonic test flights.

Products, by altitude

Edge of space · 80–160 km

  • In service

    SpaceLoft

    Reusable rocket giving experiments a brief taste of weightlessness

  • Testing

    Spyder

    Rocket that pushes test vehicles to hypersonic speeds

Milestones

  • Nov 2025 SpaceLoft-18 launched from Spaceport America with a deployable heat shield built with Los Alamos, Redwire and NASA Ames, recovered at White Sands. Company statement⁠1
  • Jun 2025 Maiden flight of the Spyder hypersonic rocket from White Sands Missile Range, carrying a Los Alamos National Laboratory test vehicle. Company statement⁠2

Sources

  1. UP Aerospace
  2. UP Aerospace press release (PR Newswire)Jun 16, 2025
  3. UP Aerospace

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