Tag: 39C
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OmegA Launch Tower to be demolished as KSC 39B fails to become a multi-user pad
Following the cancellation of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA rocket, work to demolish the vehicle’s launch tower on a repurposed former Shuttle program Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) will mark the erasure of the program from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). It was hoped OmegA would allow the “clean pad” at 39B to fall under the assigned mandate…
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Rocket Lab manifests third flight, aims for expanded flight rate and launch sites
As Rocket Lab continues to put together their manifest for the first operational year of Electron’s service, the company is keeping their eye firmly fixed on the future – with options to expand launch operations to other launch sites while operating Electron in a “sweet spot” within the launch market and capitalizing on the company’s…
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KSC, Cape & Brownsville launch pads to shepherd busy launch schedules
As Kennedy Space Center continues its transition to becoming a multi-user spaceport, more details are emerging about its possible future, including a new small vehicle launch complex, a New Armstrong launch pad, and a SpaceX BFR assembly facility. SpaceX, meanwhile, has also been making slow but steady progress at the location of their future South…
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Delving deeper into KSC’s transformation into a Multi-User Spaceport
The 2011 conclusion of NASA’s 30-year Space Shuttle Program posed a major challenge for the Kennedy Space Center, the historic spaceport dotted with facilities purpose-built for shuttles. Eleven months before the shuttle program ended, NASA developed post-shuttle plans for its facilities and operations. Five years later, KSC is into the final leg of its transformation.…