SpaceX to Use Second Vandenberg Launch Pad for Falcon Rockets Written 26 April 2023
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches NROL-87, a NRO spy satellite, Feb. 2, 2022, from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: SpaceX Webcast; YouTube; framegrab
Space News reports SpaceX is adding a second West Coast launch pad after receiving “approval to lease Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, a historic site previously occupied by United Launch Alliance.” Space Force unit Space Launch Delta 30 announced this week that SpaceX will use the location to launch Falcon rockets. SpaceX is expanding its “operations at Vandenberg…following a period of extraordinary growth fueled by commercial launch demand and the deployment of its Starlink internet mega-constellation.”
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