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The Space Systems Processing Facility (SSPF), originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center for the manufacture and processing of flight hardware, modules, structural components and solar arrays of the International Space Station, and future space stations and commercial spacecraft.
The three-story, 457,000-square-foot (42,500 m 2) Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) consists of two enormous processing bays, an airlock, operational control rooms, laboratories, logistics areas and office space for support of non-hazardous Space Station and Shuttle payloads to ISO 14644-1 class 5 standards. [49]
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft’s pressurized cargo module for the company’s 21st commercial resupply mission is lifted and moved by a crane inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024, as prelaunch processing operations continue.
The Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center - the prime factory for the last stages of fabrication and processing of station components for launch. The project to create the International Space Station required the utilization and/or construction of new and existing manufacturing facilities around the world, mostly in the United States and Europe.
The tour formerly included the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) where modules for the International Space Station were tested. Mercury Control consoles in Heroes & Legends. The Visitor Complex includes two facilities run by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation.
The Engine Section is the most complex element of the core stage, as well as the Space Launch System as a whole. Procurement of its parts and assembly are the longest-lead items in the manufacture of a core stage, [18] and beginning with CS-3, engine sections are integrated in the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at Kennedy Space Center ...
From there, ESA formally transferred ownership of Harmony to NASA on 18 June 2003, taking place in the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) of the Kennedy Space Center. [22] The handover of Harmony completed a major element of the barter agreement, between ESA and NASA, that was signed in Turin, Italy on 8 October 1997.
Rassvet in the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at Kennedy Space Center An interior view of Rassvet. Rassvet was berthed to the nadir port of Zarya with help from the Canadarm2. [6] Rassvet carried externally attached (piggybacking) outfitting equipment for the future Nauka (Multipurpose Laboratory Module-Upgrade).