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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.
Robert D. Cabana, director of KSC, announces the signing of the LC-39A lease agreement on April 14, 2014.. In December 2013, NASA and SpaceX were in negotiations for SpaceX to lease Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, after SpaceX was selected in a multi-company bid process, following NASA's decision in early 2013 to lease the unused complex as part of a bid to reduce annual operation and ...
Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6, pronounced "Slick Six") is a launch pad and associated support infrastructure at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Construction at the site began in 1966, but the first launch didn't occur until 1995 due to program cancellations and subsequent repurposing efforts.
SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer, successfully launches a Falcon 9 rocket with multiple Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan. 24, 2025, in Lompoc, California.
A SpaceX launch briefly illuminated the Southern California sky early Friday morning, leaving commuters and local residents in awe. Falcon 9, a reusable, two-stage rocket, launched nearly two ...
SpaceX launched a rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base around 8 p.m. Monday after inclement weather postponed its launch last week.
In October 2018, SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 booster on a Vandenberg ground pad for the first time. [26] In April 2023, SpaceX leased SLC-6 to begin converting it for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches after the last Delta IV launch there. [27] SpaceX expects to begin Falcon 9 launches from SLC-6 in 2025 and Falcon Heavy launches in 2026. [28]
SpaceX has two active launch sites in Florida, one active launch site in California and one active launch site at Starbase in Texas. Hawthorne, CA: Falcon and Dragon manufacturing, mission control SpaceX office in Hawthorne, California at night during a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base