Houston Based Companies: AresSpace

AresSpace

Headquarters: Houston, Texas (CAS)

Executive Vice President: Charles Pollack

Subsidiaries:

Ares Global Comsat
AresSpace Lifters
AresSpace Security
AresSpace Special Operations Division


AresSpace was headquartered in Houston, TX because of the acquisition of NASA by Ares Macrotechnology from the US Government.  Nicholas Aurelius (CEO and Chairman of the Board) purchased NASA and turned it into a highly profitable satellite recovery service among other things.

AresSpace is located in Clear Lake where the old JSC (Johnson Space Center) was located.  They also have offices in Downtown Houston as well.

The tsunami of 2068 didn't quite wipe out clear lake but there was a lot of flooding and subsequent damage. This gave Ares Macrotechnology the opportunity to purchase the land surrounding old JSC and most of the lake front property.  Ares then took the land once called Nassau Bay and shaped the peninsula and constructed a large airfield extending into Lake Nassau.  They also constructed a secure bridge to the once connected Nassau Bay Peninsula Wildlife Park and build a large research facility and an advanced engineering and manufacturing facility there.  The main administration buildings and mission control at old JSC proper were gutted and rebuilt with the latest security and technological advances as well.

AresSpace has 8 manned facilities in space currently.

AresSpace built and runs the Kodiak Island Spaceport in Alaska, Athabaskan Council

AresSpace unveiled Apollo Station on the 12th of April 2019 - the Crash Virus disabled the station killing all on board the 8th of February 2029.\

AresSpace owns and operates Icarus Station in geosynchronous orbit.  Little is known about the stations purpose and the facility itself.

AresSpace owns and operates Artemis Lunar Arcology which is their presence on the Moon.



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<<SpaceCityRover>>
-- Houston has an old nickname "Space City" thanks to AresSpace we can still call ourselves that...to survive as a species metahumans have to colonize space, I for one am proud that AresSpace is reaching for the stars...

<<SpaceFreak2099>>
--SpaceCityRover, your post screams AresSpace employee...you mind telling us where Ares is hiding the Aliens?

<<SpaceCityRover>>
--SpaceFreak2099, There are no Aliens here on earth.  Do you actually think that a highly intelligent race that can cross tens, hundreds, thousands, of light years would come here to this po-dunk planet?  Get probed chummer....

<<SpaceFreak2099>>
--SpaceCityRover, Sounds exactly what a corporate shill would say...thanks for the confirmation boyo!




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