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Ground Processing and Launch Facilities ENAE 791 - Launch and Entry Vehicle Design
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Ground Processing and Launch Facilities• Historical examples
– Early Launch Facilities – Saturn I – Saturn V – Russian
• Modern examples – Shuttle – Delta IV Heavy – DC-XA – Falcon 9
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Cape Canaveral circa 1950
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Map of Cape Canaveral
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“ICBM Row”
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LC-5 – Mercury-Redstone
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LC-5 Emergency Crew Escape System
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Atlas Support Gantry
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LC-14 – Mercury-Atlas
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Titan II Access Tower Operation
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LC-34 Schematic
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Saturn I Launch Pedestal
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LC-34 Launch Pedestal Under Construction
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LC-34 Flame Deflector
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LC-34 Blockhouse
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LC-34 Service Structure
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Saturn I Erection Process
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Aerial View of LC-34
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Aerial View of LC-34
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Aerial View of LC-34
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S-I Stage Rotation
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S-I Stage Rotation
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Assembly of Saturn I
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SA-201 Launch
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LC-37 Concept
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LC-37 Under Construction (1963)
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LC-37 Construction Photo
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Barge Transport of Launch Vehicle Stages
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Aerial Transport of Stages
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Saturn V Launch Facility
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Cape Canaveral Siting Map
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Launch Sites Considered for Apollo• Cape Canaveral • Offshore from Cape Canaveral • Mayaguana Island in the Bahamas • Cumberland Island, Georgia • A mainland site near Brownsville, Texas • White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico • Christmas Island in the mid-Pacific south of Hawaii • South Point on the island of Hawaii
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Early Mobile Launch Complex Concept
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Concept of an Off-Shore Launch Facility
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Merritt Island Launch Area (MILA)
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Map of KSC and CCAFS
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Competition for MILA Launch Sites
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Rail-Based Nova Launch Concept
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Barge-Based Saturn V Launch Concept
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Barge-Based Vertical Assembly Building
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Barge-Based VAB (Enclosed)
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Interior Concept of VAB
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Early Construction of VAB
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VAB and LCC Under Construction
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VAB from Turning Basin
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Interior of Launch Control Center
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Interior of Launch Control Center
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Early Concept of Mobile Launch Platform
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West Virginia Strip-Mine Coal Shovel
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Crawler-Transporter
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Cutaway of Crawler-Transporter
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Complex 39 Crawlerway
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Saturn V Mobile Launch Platforms
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MLP Transport Tests
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Interior of VAB
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S-IC Stage in VAB Transfer Aisle
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S-IC – S-II Stacking
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S-II – S-IVB Stacking
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S-IVB – Instrument Unit Stacking
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IU – Apollo Spacecraft Stacking
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Apollo–Saturn V Completed Stack in VAB
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Saturn V Hold-Down Restraints
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S-1C T-0 Disconnects
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Building the LC-39 Launch Pads
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LC-39 Crawlerway and Stacks
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SA-501 at LC-39A
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LC-39 Mobile Service Structure
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Mobile Service Structure with Saturn V
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STS Fixed and Rotating Service Structure
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Complex 39 Launch Mounts
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KSC LC-39 (Modern Era)
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Details of LC-39 Pads
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Expenditures for LC-39
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Saturn V Vehicle Checkout Flow
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Soyuz Launch Vehicle Moving to Pad
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Soyuz Launch Site
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Energia in Horizontal Integration
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Energia Transported to Pad
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Energia at Pad
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Energia Erection
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Energia on Pad
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Shuttle Landing Facility
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Transport to Orbiter Processing Facility
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Payload Bay Inspection in OPF
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SSME Removal/Installation
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Transfer to Vehicle Assembly Building
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Attaching Hoisting Fixtures
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Attaching Orbiter to Shuttle Stack
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Shuttle Rollout
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Delta IV Heavy Horizontal Integration
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Delta IVH Horizontal Integation Facility
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Delta IV Heavy Transporter
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Delta IV Heavy at LC34 Blockhouse
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Delta IV Heavy Arrives at LC-34
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Delta IV Heavy Module Interconnects
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Delta IV Heavy at Pad
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Delta IV Heavy Rotation
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Delta IV Heavy Rotation
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Delta IV Heavy at Pad
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DC-XA on Launch Pad
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LC40 at KSC - SpaceX Falcon 9
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Falcon 9 v1.1 – SpaceX
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KSC Landing Complex 1
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Falcon 9 First Stage Landing
