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Launchpad is an anthology series of American independent short films produced by Walt Disney Pictures and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures for streaming on Disney+.
Vandenberg Space Force Base, located at Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County, California, is home to the United States' Western Range and is considered the second most active rocket range and spaceport in the country (following Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island in Florida).
Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) is a launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base that consists of two separate launch pads. Space Launch Complex 3 East (SLC-3E) was used by the Atlas V launch vehicle before it was decommissioned in August 2021 with the final launch taking place on November 10, 2022, at 09:49, while Space Launch Complex 3 West (SLC-3W) has been demolished.
The complex was then refurbished to accommodate the Martin Marietta Titan 34D.Seven Titan 34Ds were launched between 20 June 1983, and 6 November 1988. [8] SLC-4E hosted one of the most dramatic launch accidents in US history when a Titan 34D-9 carrying a KH-9 photoreconnaissance satellite exploded a few hundred feet above the pad on 18 April 1986.
Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) is an active rocket launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California, USA.It consists of two launch pads: Space Launch Complex 2 East (SLC-2E, originally LC 75-1-1), used by the PGM-17 Thor missile and several of its derivatives from 1958 to 1972; and Space Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W, originally LC 75-1-2), which has been in use since 1959 to launch ...
LP-0A (located at ) was first built for the failed Conestoga rocket program The original launch tower was subsequently demolished in September 2008. A new pad facility was built from 2009 to 2011 for Orbital Sciences Taurus II, now renamed Antares.
The launch pad built by the Soviet Union beginning in 1978 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for launching the Energiya rocket included an elaborate sound suppression system which delivered a peak flow of 18 cubic metres (4,800 US gal) per second fed by three ground level reservoirs totaling 18,000 cubic metres (4,800,000 US gal).