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| Paris to Sydney in three hours. It tempts you ? - Photo : Rocket Crafters |
[ Titusville (FLA), July 12th, 2012, © (rke),
english below ] – Excellente nouvelle pour l’économie locale et régionale du
centre de la Floride. La société Rocket
Crafters a préféré Titusville des sites dans le Colorado, le Nouveau
Mexique, l’Utah et le Texas pour s’y implanter et pour y construire des
avions-fusées suborbitaux - juste un saut de puce dans un bout dans l’espace. On
pourra aller de Paris à Sydney six fois plus vite qu’en avion actuel, ce qui
fait trois petites heures au lieu d’une vingtaine.
Et cette implantation devrait générer quelque 1’300 emplois
d’ici à 2017.
Rocket Crafters' arrival propels Titusville to fly six times
as fast that by plane ! Just a little in the space …
Great news for the local and regional economy of central
Florida. That was the reaction from lawmakers, economic development officials
and the founders of a Utah-based company called Rocket Crafters Inc., announced plans to
move its fledgling high-tech aerospace operation to Titusville.
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| La nouvelle annoncée dans le Florida Today du 11 juillet 2012. |
A soon-to-be-manufacturer of suborbital space planes and
developer of innovative propulsion systems, Rocket Crafters laid out an ambitious
program to create hundreds of jobs for the area over the next several years
while dramatically advancing the concept of point-to-point transportation.
Rocket Crafters’ plan is to build aircraft that would take
off like traditional jets, fly into sub-orbit and then land like a jet
thousands of miles away, completing a journey that would take about one-sixth
the time it would take a traditional airliner.
The company selected Titusville over sites in Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah and Texas mainly because of its space resources — including
experienced aerospace workers and knowledgeable officials — and an incentive
package that included the city of Titusville providing the company a temporary,
23,000-square-foot hangar, testing facility and headquarters on the edge of
Space Coast Regional Airport. The state and county also agreed to several
performance-based incentives.
In two years, Rocket Crafters hopes to complete a
400,000-square-foot facility on 33 acres of airport land that it would fill
with equipment. Total cost: More than $70 million.
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