Base Corn Ranch (Near Van Horn, Texas)

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Is somebody already working on making this surface base? It is the spaceport used by Blue Origin for their New Shepard program and surprisingly full of structures that look like launch complexes and test stands.

You can find it here:

http://www.google.com/maps/@31.4229291,-104.7572064,283m/data=!3m1!1e3

Pretty busy place - and also pretty large area.
 

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Any ground level images available anywhere?
 

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Any ground level images available anywhere?

Only a few on NASA and Blue Origins. Not that much available yet.

The air images are also pretty good as reference, since the basic building structures can be easily seen there.
 

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These are the same facilities that are in Google Earth / Maps.
launch.jpg

By indicating Google Maps Pictures by 2016, and photos and video on the website of the Blue Origin New Shepard Rocket is dated January 22, 2016.
So there is a chance that Google Earth photos were taken shortly after the facility is built.
 

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I can give it a go, if no one else wants to.
Just got to finish off the last one of the old bases I had started and left.

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Made some tiles for the area, must say it looks...quiet.

Level 2 tiles centred on the base.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.02.05 21-20-28 GL-01_zpse4pbv3q0.jpg

Level 3 on right of screen, level two on the right.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.02.05 21-29-26 GL-01_zps4klg0qos.jpg

Level 9 on the base.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.02.05 21-24-37 GL-01_zpszutbbdzx.jpg

.cfg file at the moment
BASE-V2.0
Name = Corn_Ranch
Location = -104.757233 31.423072
Size = 2000

BEGIN_OBJECTLIST
LPAD2
POS 0 0 0
SCALE 0 0 0
TEX Lpad02
NAV 130.20
END
END_OBJECTLIST

BEGIN_SURFTILELIST
;0 -149 44 1 ;Base tile
;0 -150 44 1 ;W1
2 -596 178 1 ;Base tille
2 -597 178 1 ;W1
2 -597 179 1 ;W1 N1
2 -596 179 1 ;N1
3 -1192 357 1 ;Base tile
9 -76282 22881 1
END_SURFTILELIST
That location is cast in jpeg once I start making tiles, so if its wrong, let me know pronto!
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http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/16.02.06 22-02-16 GL-01_zpseyc1dm4o.jpg

That is the generic area covered at the moment, to be honest I can't see any point in making lots of hi-res tiles. Its mainly...desert!

So, I think these are Blue Origin structures.

In Google Earth, set the Ruler Tool on
31.423072 -104.757233
and you find these

1) 3000m 161 degrees
2) 3600m 78 degrees
3) 4500m 168 degrees

That's all folks! Except for the landing pad at 31.4517 -104.7628.
Though I do like Figure 2 Ranch airfield at 9000m(bearing left for you to find...)
All this means is I'll do those three areas hi-res, and that's it, unless someone points out one I've missed!

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Looks good like that :)
 

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Close, but no cigar. Its Spaceport America, simpler than Corn Ranch but more tenants...
At least it has a runway!
Will need someone to make a decent mesh of the main building to make it interesting I think.

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