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Spaceport Partners Development and Consultancy for Commercial Spaceports
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Spaceport Partners is a project agency for development and consultancy for commercial spaceports. Bringing in expertise and the people being responsible for developing the first spaceport in the Caribbean, Spaceport Partners is able to become your partner in the development of future spaceports for suborbital and orbital private spaceflight and rapid response small satellite launches. Spaceport Partners is currently involved in the development of a spaceport in the Caribbean offering a number of advantages currently not included in spaceports in development at other sites around the world. A Spaceport in the Caribbean will provide to its launch providers all the necessary facilities to perform a safe and reliable flight schedule. Hangars, maintenance workshops, suborbital space control building, terminal building for spaceflight participants and visitors, propellant and fuel depots and more will be available for the launch provider for a reasonable prize to ensure a strong competitability for the customers of the spaceport. Due to the phased development approach the spaceport can become operational in a reasonable timeframe. Spaceport Partners are currently in discussions with companies on the island, local authorities and the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Launch permits and licenses are currently being negotiated with the Dutch authorities under a new law of commercial space activities. A spaceport in the Caribbean has the advantage of having a mature and full-fledged touristic infrastructure available to accommodate not only spaceflight but also other activities related to a relaxed and luxurious Holiday. The spaceport will also accommodate events related to aerospace to enhance the visibility of the spaceport to increase the number of people visiting. The spaceport will focus in the firts phase of one suborbital private spaceflight provider and discussions are in a preliminary phase with a few possible partners. The spaceport will in a later stage provide launch facilities for more than one provider making use of the expected growth in market and the number of launch providers.
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Spaceport Partners is founded by the following persons: Arno A. Wielders Arno Wielders got his masters degree in Physics in 1997 from the Free University of Amsterdam. After graduation he was hired by the Leiden Observatory from the Leiden University to work at Dutch Space in the Very Large Telescope Interferometer Delay Line project. In 2002 he received his TWAIO (two year PhD like research) certificate and started as a research scientist at the Space Department of TNO TPD in Delft. At TNO he was heavily involved in the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) project launched by NASA. He was also responsible for doing research in metrology systems for formation flying satellites, which included project proposals related to several missions for the European Space Agency. In 2004 he founded Space Horizon, a project agency for space exploration projects, involved in planetary mission definition, instrument studies and space outreach. In 2005 he was hired part-time by the European Space Agency’s technology centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands (ESTEC) to work on future scientific planetary missions. He is at ESTEC most involved in payload for new missions within Cosmic Vision and their related technology developments. He currently divides his time between Space Horizon and Spaceport Partners. Joost G. Wouters Joost G. Wouters started his career as a research scientist for the PROLEXS legal informatics project at the Free University of Amsterdam. He then served the web and media industry in various management positions. Subsequently Joost served in senior positions in Marketing and Business Development in Biotechnology and in the Private Space Industry (the Solar Sail project of Team Encounter and NASA Langley Research Center) and as a promoter for the Ansari X PRIZE in Europe. Joost Wouters received his Master of Law degree from the University of Amsterdam specializing in ‘Artificial Intelligence and Law’ and ‘International Trade Law’. He also studied Anglo American Law at the University of Exeter, UK and Cognitive Science at the SUNY Buffalo, USA. Joost is a regular contributor to the Dutch media on the subject of advanced technologies. His hobbies include travel, sea sailing, 3D graphics, music and creative writing. Wencke van der Meulen Wencke van der Meulen is an aerospace- (MSc, 2000) and space systems (MSc, 2005) engineer and has been working for The Netherlands Space Agency (NIVR) since 2001. As from 2006 she is the national representative of the European Space Agency’s Board supervising large space programmes such the European contribution to the ISS, the microgravity research activities and the European Space Exploration Programme “Aurora” with its ExoMars mission. In addition, she is the project manager for the overall NL-participation in the ExoMars-instruments. Prior to this, she fulfilled a similar role at the NIVR in the field of European Satellite Navigation Systems, i.e. Galileo and EGNOS. During a limited period she worked at National Astronomical Observatory (NAO) of Japan on the simulation of global lunar gravity field recovery from Selene (2001),at Delft University of Technology on the determination of European Remote Sensing fast-delivery orbit product (2000) and at the Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) in Brazil on the development and real-time closed-loop simulation of Plataforma SubOrbital (PSO) attitude control algorithms (1999). In 2006, at the school for Executive Education at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, she enhanced her skills in the area of space systems-, business engineering and space applications. With Caribbean Spaceport she wants to contribute to making commercial human space flight a reality.
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