
SpaceX facilities
Launch facilities used by SpaceX

Launch facilities used by SpaceX
SpaceX operates four launch facilities: Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40); and, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) – both in Florida; Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) in southern California; and, SpaceX Starbase in southern Texas. Space Launch Complex 40 was damaged in the AMOS-6 accident on September 1, 2016, and repair work was completed by December 2017. Starbase Launch Pad 1 was damaged during the first Starship Launch on April 20, 2023, and repaired in under four months. In addition, SpaceX uses a suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. It is also where it tests all Merlin and Raptor engines, and flight article Falcon 9 first and second stages. A high-altitude suborbital test facility was under construction in New Mexico, but was abandoned following the switch to flight tests on commercial missions in September 2013. SpaceX is currently building a second Starship launch pad...
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