Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40[1][2] (SLC-40), tidigare Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) är en startplatta för raketer som ligger vid den norra änden av Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Startplattan användes av United States Air Force för 55 uppskjutningar av Titan III och Titan IV mellan 1965 och 2005.[3]
Sedan 2007 hyr det amerikanska flygvapnet ut komplexet till SpaceX för starter av Falcon 9-raketer.[4]
Olycka
Den 1 september 2016 skadades anläggningen svårt då en Falcon 9-raket exploderade på startplattan.
Efter reparationer och ombyggnation kunde man återuppta uppskjutningar från anläggningen den 15 december 2017[5].
Referenser
- ^ McDowell, Jonathan (22 februari 1998). ”Issue 350”. Jonathan's Space Report. Jonathan's Space Page. Arkiverad från originalet den 3 maj 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100503232748/http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.350. Läst 9 juli 2009.
- ^ ”Table 3” (på engelska). Arkiverad från originalet den 30 augusti 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170830011131/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/au-18/au180051.htm. Läst 9 oktober 2014.
- ^ ”Launch Complex 40” (på engelska). Afspacemuseum.org. Arkiverad från originalet den 12 augusti 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812210154/http://www.afspacemuseum.org/ccafs/CX40/. Läst 16 augusti 2014.
- ^ ”Launch Manifest” (på engelska). SpaceX. Arkiverad från originalet den 2 augusti 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130802104401/http://www.spacex.com/missions#completed-missions-header. Läst 25 februari 2017.
- ^ ”launches - spacex” (på engelska). www.reddit.com. https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/launches. Läst 17 december 2017.
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The mobile service tower, or gantry, in the foreground at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is scheduled for demolition. The tall lightning towers around it will remain. This mammoth structure, with its cavernous clean room, was used for the final spacecraft launch preparations for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, formerly orbiting Saturn. The launch occurred on Oct. 15, 1997, aboard an Air Force Titan IV-Centaur rocket. The facilities at the pad are being dismantled to make room for the construction of launch pad access and servicing facilities for the new Falcon rockets to be launched by Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX. Space Launch Complex 37 is visible in the background.
The mobile service tower, or gantry, in the foreground at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is scheduled for demolition. The tall lightning towers around it will remain. This mammoth structure, with its cavernous clean room, was used for the final spacecraft launch preparations for NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, formerly orbiting Saturn. The launch occurred on Oct. 15, 1997, aboard an Air Force Titan IV-Centaur rocket. The facilities at the pad are being dismantled to make room for the construction of launch pad access and servicing facilities for the new Falcon rockets to be launched by Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX. Space Launch Complex 37 is visible in the background.
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Aerial view of Falcon 9 with Dragon qualification spacecraft on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The site had previously been used by the U.S. Air Force to launch Titan rockets.
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Aerial view of Falcon 9 with Dragon qualification spacecraft on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The site had previously been used by the U.S. Air Force to launch Titan rockets.