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A photograph of Launch Complex 40 with a #SpaceX #Falcon 9 #rocket erected on the pad ahead of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Service mission 2, or #COTS2 , with cylindrical liquid tanks not far from the pad.

#LC40 #Falcon9 #CapeCanaveralAirForceStation #CCAFS

An outdoor, daylight photograph of a white rocket standing on a cement platform with two, horizontal, cylindrical, gray tanks in front of the rocket and its launch pad.

A #ULA #Atlas V #rocket in the 551 configuration lifting off from LC-41 at #CCAFS carrying #NASA’s #Juno probe to #Jupiter.
Juno’s #JunoCam camera instrument was not intended as part of the original science payload, but has returned hundreds of images of Jupiter’s clouds with incredible detail.

#UnitedLaunchAlliance #AtlasV #AtlasRocket #Launch #Photograph

A photograph of an Atlas 5 rocket lifting of its pad at Cape Canaveral. Flames can be seen under the rocket, and a cloud of steam and dust has expanded behind the rocket.
There are 4 truss towers surrounding the rocket.
Underneath the launchpad in the image are trees and greenery, below which is calm, blue water.

A United Launch Alliance #Atlas V #rocket lifting off its #launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station SLC-41. This #AtlasV is carrying a #GPS satellite into orbit.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph of a rocket launching. There is a body of water and strip of green brush in between the launch pad and the camera. The rocket is ascending on a column of orange flame. White smoke and dusk is being blown into a cloud behind the pad.

A vertical view of the Mobile Service Structure at Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Station.
The #MobileServiceStructure stacks the #Delta IV #rocket on top its #launchpad and then rolls away, while the gray Fixed Umbilical Tower remains in place and supplies the #LaunchVehicle with propellant and other consumables until liftoff.

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#CCAFS #SLC37B #UnitedLaunchAlliance #DeltaIV #Photograph

A vertically-oriented photograph taken outdoors and in the evening, of a white tower on the other side of a pond. On the left side of the white tower and a gray, truss tower is on the right.

Boeing leased the space at Launch Complex 37B for its #Delta IV #EELV.
The #DeltaIV is stacked on its launch pad using the Mobile Service Tower to stack the rocket
In front of it, the gray truss structure is the Fixed Umbilical Tower that provides propellant to the #DeltaRocket.
In this image, the MST is sitting on the pad with a single orange Delta Core inside.
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#SLC37B #CCAFS #Photograph

A photograph of part of Space Launch Complex 37B. At the bottom of the frame are green trees and scrub land, above which power lines are strung. Behind them and reaching past the top of the frame is a white tower. The lower section is open and a single orange cylinder can be seen inside, which is a Delta 4 rocket core. The upper part of the building is closed in by doors that slide sideways to open. There are two tall truss towers on either side of the white tower, and a truss building just on its left side with connections reaching to the rocket inside the white tower.

An old #Atlas #rocket #disassembled and being refurbished for display at a museum at Cape Canaveral.

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#AtlasRocket #CapeCanaveralAirForceStation #CCAFS #Photograph

An outdoor landscape photograph of an old, shiny metal rocket body on a horizontal carrier with several rocket parts nearby. There is an open grass field starting at the bottom of the frame and extending to a chain-link fence around the concrete pad on which the rocket parts rest.

SLC-41 was modified by #Lockheed Martin, who designed the #Atlas V #rocket, such as the one occupying the pad in this image; an #AtlasV with #NASA’s #RBSP probes to the magnetosphere.
#ULA has modified both the launch complex and Vertical Integration Facility to allow the new Vulcan rocket to use SLC-41.
The first Vulcan-Centaur launched occurred on January 28, 2024.

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#AtlasV401, #SLC41, #CCAFS, #Photograph

An outdoor, daylight, landscape photograph of Launch Complex 41 with an Atlas 5 rocket on the launchpad in the center. The rocket has a copper-colored first stage and white upper stage and conical fairing. Three truss towers are visible around the rocket.

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A stitched #composite #image of a United Launch Alliance #Delta IV Heavy #rocket at SL-37B.
The #DeltaIVHeavy was the most powerful launch vehicle in the US inventory at the time.
The payload is classified, but is widely believed to be a signals intelligence satellite.

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#Delta4, #Delta4Heavy, #DeltaIV, #DeltaRocket, #UnitedLaunchAlliance, #ULA, #LC37B, #CapeCanaveralAirForceStats, #CCAFS, #Photography

An outdoor, evening photograph of a rocket sitting on its launch pad with umbilical cables connected.
The rocket has 3 orange cylindrical boosters side-by-side with the center booster carrying the white upper stage and fairing.
Behind the rocket is a white tower with an opening that can hold the rocket.
On the right side of the image is a truss tower with three truss connections to the rocket.
Behind it is a tall, narrow truss tower extending beyond the top of the image.

A #vertical, #stitched #panorama of the #SpaceX #Falcon 9 #rocket and the #Dragon cargo #spacecraft at LC-41 before the #COTS2 demo flight for #NASA.
The SpaceX-extended flame trench directly faces the camera.

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#Falcon9, #Falcon9Rocket, #COTSDemo, #COTS, #LC41, #CCAFS, #Photography

An outdoor, daytime photograph of a tall, white rocket with SPACEX written vertically in blue letters.
On the bottom right corner of the frame is the exhaust vent for the flame trench.

A stitched #composite #image of a United Launch Alliance #Delta IV Heavy #rocket at SL-37B.
The #DeltaIVHeavy was the most powerful launch vehicle in the US inventory at the time.
The payload is classified, but is widely believed to be a signals intelligence satellite.

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#Delta4, #Delta4Heavy, #DeltaIV, #DeltaRocket, #UnitedLaunchAlliance, #ULA, #LC37B, #CapeCanaveralAirForceStats, #CCAFS, #Photography

An early morning #photograph of the #sunrise next to LC-37B and the #Delta IV #rocket waiting on its launch pad to carry a heavy payload to orbit.
The #DeltaIVHeavy is a rocket with three first stages attached side-by-side. The two outer #boosters burn at full throttle, while the center engine remains at low throttle until the outer two cores separate, then it throttles back up.

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#UnitedLaunchAlliance, #ULA, #DeltaRocket, #Delta4Heavy, #DeltaRocket, #CapeCanaveralAirForceStation, #CCAFS, #LC37B

An outdoor, sunrise photograph of the Sun, made to look pink in the early morning, which has just risen halfway above the horizon. The sky is pink and orange at the top of the image, with more gray clouds near the middle, where trees and brush cover the horizon. Near the middle of the image is a tall white tower, to the right of which are two tall, truss-work towers and a shorter, gray, truss-work structure with connections leading to an orange-colored rocket.

United Launch Alliance’s #Delta IV Heavy #rocket is beginning to climb to #orbit with its classified* payload from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station.

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*It’s believed to be an Advanced Orion/Mentor signals intelligence satellite designated Orion-8.

An outdoor, daytime photograph of a Delta 4 Heavy rocket, a triple-cored rocket with cylindrical, orange cores and a white cylinder and fairing above that. The rocket is beginning to rise off its launch pad and the bright flames and exhaust of the engines builds up under and behind the rocket. There is a gray Fixed Umbilical tower with truss connections swinging away from the rocket. There are two tall, truss towers on either side of the rocket. There is a building behind the rocket that has a gap cut out that is clearly designed to accommodate the rocket. Green scrub, grass, and blue water separate the camera from the rocket.

This is Launch Complex 34 at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station.
During a test of the #Apollo command and service modules and a Saturn I rocket in preparation for the Apollo 1 mission, a small spark from an unknown origin, combined with pure oxygen environment, allowed a fire to break out and essentially used all the oxygen in the combustion reaction, killing mission commander Gus Grissom, senior pilot Ed White, and pilot Roger Chaffee nearly instantly.
LC-34 was abandoned-in-place after the last Saturn launch was decommissioned.
It remains as a #memorial.

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#Apollo1, #LC34, #SaturnI, #CapeCanaveral, #CCAFS, #Photography.

An outdoor landscape photograph of a concrete structure. It is held up with 4, thick concrete legs and a flat concrete top with a circular hole in the center. The structure sits on a on a concrete pad. Three adults are walking toward the four-legged launch table, as well as a child in the middle of it.

The first stage of a #SpaceX #Falcon 9 #rocket at SpaceX’s horizontal integration facility at LC-40 at Cape #Canaveral.
This booster was an early version; before the “Octoweb” engine configuration.
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#Falcon9, #Falcon9Rocket, #FalconRocket, #LC40, #CCAFS, #CapeCanaveral, #Photography

An indoor photograph, taken in a kind of hanger, with a Falcon 9 rocket stage, a white cylinder, mounted on its side, running down the right side of the image.

A United #Launch Alliance #Atlas V rocket climbs above the Lightning Arrestor Towers around LC-41 and #ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility.
The #AtlasV is in its 401 configuration with a 4 meter fairing, no SRBs, and 1 upper stage engine.
Its payload is a new GPS satellite.
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#UnitedLaunchAlliance, #Atlas5, #AtlasRocket, #Rocket, #RocketLaunch, #CapeCanaveral, #CCAFS, #Photography

An outdoor, daytime photograph of a ULA Atlas V rocket climbing on a trail of fire, over its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket has risen over most of the pad obstacles and created a large cloud of dust and vapor on the right.

A United #Launch Alliance #Delta IV Heavy lifts off carrying the NROL-15 payload to orbit.
The #Delta4Heavy has 3 Common Booster Cores (#CBC) attached side by-side, each with one RS-68 #rocket #engine.
The #DeltaRocket is launching from SLC-37B at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying NROL-15, a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (#NRO) that is widely known be be an ADVANCED ORION/Trumpet #SIGINT #satellite.
This #Photo was taken from the NASA Causeway that connects KSC to #CCAFS.
#UnitedLaunchAlliance, #ULA, #Delta4Rocket, #DeltaRocket, #RocketLaunch, #SLC37B, #NROL15, #DeltaIVHeavy, #Photography, #Photograph
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An outdoor, daytime photograph of a Delta 4 rocket lifting off from its launch pad. It has 3 orange cylinders side-by-side with a taller center that has the upper stage and payload fairing. A column of fire is pouring from the 3 engines, one on each core. A cloud of smoke rises behind the rocket. Two tall truss towers, a shorter truss tower, and a white building with an opening cut out for the rocket surround the pad. At the bottom of the frame is calm water.

When #SpaceX was allowed to use LC-40 at Cape #Canaveral Air Force Station, SpaceX realized they needed to extend the flame #trench to be longer than what was used for the Titan IV #rocket that had used the #pad previously.
SpaceX chose to use a metal frame with water sprayers to flood the #exhaust to cool and slow it and prevent damage to the #vehicle or #infrastructure. The metal extensions are on the right of the image, next to the concrete structure next to the #strongback.
#FlameTrench, #LC40, #CapeCanaveral, #CapeCanaveralAirForceStation, #CCAFS, #Falcon9, #Photograph, #Photography, #Photo
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An outdoor photograph of three truss towers surrounding a horizontal truss structure mounted on rails, and an extended concrete trench with a set of metal frames in the same shape as the tunnel continuing on.

The two metal structures are the flame #deflectors, which are meant to sit under the #launch table during launch to divert #rocket #exhaust away from the #vehicle to avoid thermal, acoustic, or debris issues, as well as to minimize damage to #pad #infrastructure.
Theses #FlameDeflectors were used at LC-34 for the #Saturn I and the larger, wider one was used for the upgraded Saturn IB. Flame delflectors are meant to divert the #exhaust of a #rocket as it #launches to protect the #vehicle and #pad #infrastructure.
After the #Apollo Program was finished, #LC34’s tower was dismantlted to prevent its uncontrolled collapse due to rust from the salt spray. The rest was #abandoned in place and a #memorial #plaque and kiosk were to memorialize the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee during the Apollo 1 fire.
#CapeCanaveralAirForceStatsion, #CCAFS, #Apollo1, #AbandonInPlace
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A photograph of two metal structures build in a rounded triangle shape, with thick metal paths on the surface and raised edges with little structure underneath except metal supports. The one on the right is wider and shorter than the one on the left. A concrete pad extends from the camera two the metal flame deflectors, with grass and then scrub land behind.
There is a white tower in the distance on the left in the distant.

#SpaceSaturdary: The first #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Heavy #rocket launched from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. Crowds gathered across the #SpaceCoast to watch, including at Playalinda Beach.
In this #photograph, the rocket has risen above a hill, covered with eager viewers, while the three-cored rocket rising on three, firey exhaust plumes, and smoke billowing off to the left.
The views (and Fox, the #photographer) had waited hours in the hot Sun to see this. The #joy in the crowd is #palpable. One person has thrown their arms in the air, celebrating the rocket’s victory.
This #Falcon9Heavy carried an electric vehicle mounted on its upper stage as a test payload.
There is a sea grape bush in the foreground on the left.
#KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #PlayalindaBeach, #CapeCanaveralAirForceStation, #CCAFS, #SeaGrapeBush
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A photograph of a SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy rocket launch. The rocket, with three first stage cores strapped together side-by-side with the upper stage and payload on the center core occupies the boundary between the top and middle vertical thirds is rising over a hill. Three jets of flame are visible from the rocket’s engine exhaust. There is a smoke cloud on the left, nearly round. In the middle third, the top of the hill is covered in people who are watching and cheering. In the bottom third and foreground, there is the grass and scrub that covers the hill. There is a sea grape bush on the bottom left.

Just in case, here's what I know about commercial pads within The Rocket Row (I'm not counting KSC, big Titan pads, and the south section - only the row itself). From north to south:

47 - Space Florida and their insignificant tenants, university and amateur rockets
37 - Boeing/ULA Delta 4, getting shut down but probably mothballed
34 - Museum area, but it literally had nothing left except the exhaust splitter when I visited it
20 - Firefly, slated for Alpha but no launches happened
19 - unusued
16 - Relativity, one launch of Terran
15 - ABL, previously at Kodiak
14 - Stoke
13 - Phantom and Vaya. However, IIRC the footprint of LC-13 is already used by SpaceX for LZ-1 and LZ-2. It's unclear just how 2 more companies are going to be jammed in.
11 - Blue Origin, but they only used it to construct a test stand for engines
12 - unused
36 - Blue Origin New Sheppard, no launches yet but they aren't giving up and construction is getting finalized
46 - Astra, IIRC they made 2 or 3 launches after Kodiak

Notably absent is the reconstituted Vector.

Overall it's all kinds of crazy, just how many companies suddenly try to launch rockets. This does not include the all-but-bankrupt Virgin, the Rocket Labs, and of course the monster gorilla of SpaceX and the legacy launchers from ULA and Northrop (Orbital). Oh, and LOL NASA.

#space #ccafs #spaceflight #rockets

#CCAFS

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