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The complex also contains a test stand for firing the LE-7 engines used in the first stage of the H-II and its derivatives. [2] Prior to launch, rockets are processed vertically in the complex's vehicle assembly building. [3] The rocket is rolled out to the launch pad on a mobile launcher platform about twelve hours before it is scheduled to ...
Launch Complex 16 (LC-16) is a launch pad site located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Part of the Missile Row lineup of launch pads, it was originally built for use by LGM-25 Titan missiles in the early 1960s, a variety of NASA functions in the late 1960s, and later saw tests of MGM-31 Pershing missiles in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Mobile Launcher Platform-1 on top of a crawler-transporter. A mobile launcher platform (MLP), also known as mobile launch platform, is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle which is assembled (stacked) vertically in an integration facility (e.g. the Vehicle Assembly Building) and then transported by a crawler-transporter (CT) to a launch pad.
Launch pad 1 is designed for orbital launches, while launch pad 2 is intended for sub-orbital launches. [3] In 2010, Alaska Aerospace Corp. developed a concept plan for a third launch pad, which would allow the facility to support quick launches of satellites: under 24 hours to launch from "go ahead". [3] [needs update]
[2] LC-48 is designed as a "clean pad" to support multiple launch systems with differing propellant needs. While initially only planned to have a single pad, the complex is capable of being expanded to two at a later date. [3]
Space Launch Complex 37 [2] [3] (SLC-37), previously Launch Complex 37 (LC-37), is a launch complex on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.Originally built to support the Apollo program, the complex consists of two launch pads: LC-37A and SLC-37B. 37A has never been used, while 37B hosted Saturn I and Saturn IB launches in the 1960s as well as Delta IV and Delta IV Heavy launches ...
The Crawlerway is a 130-foot-wide (40 m) [2] double pathway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39 . It has a length of 3.4 and 4.2 miles (5.5 and 6.8 km) to Pad 39A and Pad 39B , respectively.
In 1948, the Navy transferred the former Banana River Naval Air Station, located south of Cape Canaveral, to the Air Force for use in testing captured German V-2 rockets. [12] The site's location on the East Florida coast was ideal for this purpose, in that launches would be over the ocean, away from populated areas.