Spaceport Concepts and Locations for the SpaceLiner

Abstract

With the visionary concept of the SpaceLiner steadily reaching technical maturity, more requirements on the infrastructure also emerge. For this new way of point to point passenger transport an ecofriendly combination of a common airport and a rocket launch site must be found, that additionally meets the passenger’s luxury demands. Moreover, the safety and noise requirements are also a key consideration for successful operation of ultrafast sort of passenger transport. This paper presents three concepts of a Spaceport for the SpaceLiner and transfers them to launching and landing sites derived from fully simulated SpaceLiner trajectories.