Virgin has recruited a dedicated team to design and build LauncherOne in Mojave and Pasadena, California.
The Army intends to build a 500mw solar plant at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert.
However XCOR Aerospace, an experimental rocket-development company based in Mojave, California, begs to differ.
In this quieter part of the Mojave Desert, Robert Bigelow's own fantasy is coming to fruition.
Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first flights from a site in the Mojave Desert in 2008.
Monday's mission began at the Mojave Air and Space Port at just after 07:00 local time (14:00 GMT).
Four other licensed solar projects to be built in the Mojave Desert are the targets of similar suits.
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BrightSource is hoping to start construction in August on a 400-megawatt project called Ivanpah, in the Mojave Desert.
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Among those projects is the Brightsource Ivanpah project, a 450-foot-fall solar power tower located in the Mojave Desert.
However, this machine and 19 others will face far more difficult conditions in the race across the Mojave Desert.
There are many opponents of building large solar farms in the Mojave Desert.
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The plane will be built in California at the Mojave Air and Space Port in a new Stratolaunch hangar currently under construction.
And in her story "Discover life in the Nevada desert", she explores the surrounding Mojave and "the meadows" (or las vegas).
To preserve Mojave Desert tortoises, it is essential to control native ravens, whose numbers have been boosted by distant landfill sites.
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Las Vegas lies at the edge of the vast Mojave Desert, in a bowl-shaped valley in the parched rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Initially launching from Mojave, California, participants will get a view from the edge of space for several minutes and briefly experience weightlessness.
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Right now, the Mojave Desert is home to roughly 400 mw worth of solar projects, the biggest concentration in the world.
Atlantis was caught in a rare desert downpour after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert on February 20.
Other firms, such as Masten Space Systems, also of Mojave, are focusing on suborbital launchers that fly experiments and payloads, not passengers.
Ensconced on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Inyokern covers 11 square miles of Kern County in the dust-choked Mojave Desert.
This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant.
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The "Natural Mojave" galleries simulate flash floods and expose the variety of native wildlife that calls this desert home, from Gila monsters to big brown bats.
Even when members post under their real names, they may not reveal whether they live in San Francisco, New York or the Mojave Desert.
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The vehicle was dropped from a carrier aircraft high above California's Mojave Desert and ignited its rocket engine to go supersonic for a few seconds.
But now he's all grown up, and after drifting through the dusty fields of Mojave 3, he's settled into a stunning yet carefree style.
Companies preparing for commercial suborbital passenger service include Virgin Galactic, a U.S.-based offshoot of Branson's Virgin Group of London, and XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif.
The Mojave is filled with cactus plants, boulders, ravines and ruts.
SolarReserve is licensing technology from the big, experienced conglomerate United Technologies that was used in a now demolished project called Solar Two, also in the Mojave.
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In six years Luz built nine plants in the Mojave, 354 peak-megawatts' worth of generation, but it struggled to raise money to finish its slate of projects.
If only the project were far enough ahead to have a few models of the very long-range version parked ordered-but-not-paid-for in the Mojave desert, Mr Woodard might be happier.
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