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[i]For now, the "multi vehicle" designation is aspirational. The center was designed specifically to support SpaceX, which this year is expected to earn Air Force certification to compete for launches of national security missions now flown exclusively by United Launch Alliance's Atlas V and Delta IV rockets. The Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles directed the 45th Space Wing to establish the facility to support launches by SpaceX and any other "new entrants" that might arrive and seek the same type of certification. The facility is a hands-off "support center," not a control center, because commands can't be sent to the rocket or spacecraft. However, government and contractor personnel who were once dispersed can now gather in one place to collect and review data and to communicate more easily with each other, with SpaceX and with an Eastern Range team across the street in the Morrell Operations Center.[/i]
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