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Looking east, left-right: LC-41, LC-40, (center) LC-37B, Harrison Island, Vertical Integration Facility, and the ITL Warehouse on CCAFS in 2005. Cape Canaveral and adjacent Merritt Island on Florida's Atlantic coast are home to the USA's Eastern Range, the most active rocket range and spaceport in the country.
The range starts at the launch pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and John F. Kennedy Space Center and extends eastward over the Atlantic Ocean to 90° East longitude [17]: 10 in the Indian Ocean, where it meets the Western Range. [1]: 5 [17]: 10 The range consists of a chain of shore and sea-based tracking sites.
The facility was later known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station from 1964 to 1974, and as Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from 1974 to 1994 and from 2000 to 2020, taking the designation Cape Canaveral Air Station from 1994 to 2000. [8] [9] [10] The facility was renamed "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station" in December 2020. [11] [12]
On July 1, 1962, the Launch Operations Directorate was separated from MSFC to become the Launch Operations Center (LOC). Also, Cape Canaveral was inadequate to host the new launch facility design required for the mammoth 363-foot (111 m) tall, 7,500,000-pound-force (33,000 kN) thrust Saturn V rocket, which would be assembled vertically in a ...
On 15 May 1964, the Air Force Missile Test Center was redesignated as the Air Force Eastern Test Range (AFETR), [note 1] managing all missile and space launches from the East Coast of the United States, specifically out of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It was reassigned to Air Force Systems Command's National Range Division.
May 6, 2020 – Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the site of NASA's return to the Moon and is now ready for Artemis 1—an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back. Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) has completed modifications and upgrades to the launch pad for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft ...
The Falcon 9 launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Florida. As of 2023, SpaceX operates four launch facilities: Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E), Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), and Brownsville South Texas Launch Site (Starbase).
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17) 2004.11.20 Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission (Swift) Delta II 7320-10C Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17) 2005 [14] 2005.01.12 Deep Impact: Delta II 7925-9.5 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17) 2005.04.15