UPHAM, N.M. - A rocket that was the first launched from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico - and the first to crash - has been found in the desert, company officials said Saturday.
The 20-foot SpaceLoft XL rocket was found nearly a week after it wobbled and went off course seconds after takeoff from Spaceport America in Upham on Monday afternoon.
The unmanned rocket crashed Monday in the rugged southern New Mexico desert after reaching about 40,000 feet, well short of UP Aerospace's goal of sending the rocket into suborbital space, about 70 miles above Earth.
The company has not disclosed the exact site of the crash.
Eric Knight, the company's CEO, …
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