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Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) is a class of hangars where U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights. They are located west of the Vehicle Assembly Building, where the orbiter was mated with its external tank and Solid Rocket Boosters before transport to the launch pad. OPF-1 and OPF-2 are connected with a low bay ...
The shuttle was moved directly into an Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF), where post-flight de-servicing and pre-flight processing took place simultaneously. After only 26 days in the OPF, a record fast processing in the history of the Space Shuttle program, the shuttle was rolled to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on November 7, 1985. [2]
Space Shuttle Endeavour was moved from the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) at Kennedy Space Center to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on 11 September 2008. Rollout to launch pad 39B took place overnight on 18 September 2008 and was completed at 12:00 UTC on 19 September 2008.
The Shuttle received the center engine on December 7, 2010, followed by the lower-right engine and the lower-left on December 8 and 9, 2010 respectively inside Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-1). The event marked the last set of main engines to be installed on a Space Shuttle.
The orbiter’s placement marks the first time a shuttle designed for space was assembled vertically outside of a NASA or Air Force facility. The space shuttle Endeavour is maneuvered into ...
Space Shuttle Discovery on the morning of March 11, 2009. Space Shuttle Discovery moved from its Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building on January 7, 2009. [11] The payload of the S6 truss segment, solar arrays and batteries were delivered to Launch pad 39A on January 11. [12] Discovery moved to the launch pad 39A on ...
Additionally the orbiters were routinely towed from the Shuttle Landing Facility to the Orbiter Processing Facility after landing at the Kennedy Space Center either after missions or after removal from the SCA. [1] Enterprise January 31, 1977 (Palmdale to DFRC) for ferry flight to KSC; Columbia March 8, 1979 (Palmdale to DFRC) for ferry flight ...
The vehicle was de-stacked in the VAB and the orbiter returned to Orbiter Processing Facility. The mission, STS-51E, was canceled and the orbiter was re-manifested with 51-B payloads. 4 1990-06-12 Columbia: STS-35: Inspection failure A hydrogen leak was detected in External tank (ET) umbilical. 5 1990-08-09 Atlantis: STS-38: Fuel leak