According to SpaceX on 20 Sep: “SpaceX has nearly 50 missions on manifest to launch over the proposed 5 year lease period and we can easily make use of the additional launch site. At the time we submitted the bid, SpaceX was unaware any other parties had interest in using the pad. However, if awarded this limited duration lease on 39A, SpaceX would be more than happy to support other […]
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NASA Seeks Uses for 3 Mobile Launch Platforms at KSC, Florida Today “Commercial rocket launcher? Museum exhibit? Artificial reef? All are potential uses for three historic mobile launch platforms from which NASA’s moon rockets and space shuttles leapt toward space, but which now sit idle. If those don’t pan out, the two-story, 8.2 million-pound structures could be bound for the scrap heap. “NASA does not currently have a need for […]
Lease on Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39 may be near, Bolden says, Florida Today “A long-term lease of a mothballed Kennedy Space Center launch pad may still be near, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden suggested Wednesday. At least one company and some members of Congress have asked NASA not to award a single company exclusive use of pad 39A, saying it should be made available to multiple launchers. But Bolden said […]
Air Force considers privatizing Cape operations, Florida Today “Under a preliminary concept to be discussed in a public forum Thursday and Friday in Colorado Springs, responsibilities now handled by the 45th Space Wing would be turned over to a spaceport operator approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.” The Fixer-Upper, Space KSC “Posted on the Federal Business Opportunities web site FedBizOpps.gov is an invitation to attend a public forum in Colorado […]
As military-launch costs soar, would-be competitors protest, Orlando Sentinel “NASA workers looking for a job after space shuttle Atlantis’ final flight likely won’t have much luck at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which has launched a generation of military and national-intelligence satellites. The military-rocket business isn’t doing too well — at least according to United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Boeing and Lockheed Martin that manufactures the bulk of […]