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As of 2023, SpaceX operates four launch facilities: Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4 E (SLC-4E), Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), and Brownsville South Texas Launch Site (Starbase). Space Launch Complex 40 was damaged in the AMOS-6 accident in September 2016 and ...
The Massey's site was previously the location of the "Massey's Gun Shop and Range", before being sold to SpaceX in 2021. [117] It is the primary location for Ship and Super Heavy cryogenic testing, [ 118 ] and is frequently used for testing test-tanks and other test articles in order to improve Starship's design. [ 119 ]
Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) is a launch and landing site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, U.S. It has two pads, both of which are used by SpaceX for Falcon 9, one for launch operations, and the other as Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) for SpaceX landings. The complex was previously used by Atlas and Titan rockets between 1963 and 2005.
Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive. From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.
Active: Falcon 9. Retired: Titan. Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), sometimes referred to as " Slick Forty," is a launch pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Initially opened as Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) and used by the United States Air Force for 55 launches of rockets from the Titan family between 1965 and 2005.
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company officially headquartered at the SpaceX Starbase near Brownsville, Texas, [citation needed] though primarily based out of their former headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
A California "pay transparency" law took effect this year requiring employers to post salary ranges in job listings. SpaceX raised Foltz's pay to $95,000 only after it was required to include the ...
History of SpaceX. Entry to SpaceX's headquarters, showing the Dragon capsule used in the COTS Demo Flight 1, a Falcon 9 's landing leg and the glassy control room. This is a corporate history of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded by Elon Musk.