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Topic: Pad 37A
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hlbjr
Member Posts: 481
From: Delray Beach Florida USA
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-21-2006 05:52 PM
   
It appears Boeing developed Pad 37B for the Delta 4. Is 37A basically still there or did they destroy what little remained after the pad was originally dismantled? |
dtemple
Member Posts: 730
From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 03-22-2006 12:25 PM
I believe the entire pad was dismantled - pedestal and all. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2983
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-26-2006 08:00 PM
Pad 37, now called Space Launch Complex 37, is the East Coast launch site for Boeing's Delta IV family of launch vehicles. The 130-acre site consists of a main launch pad, which is now SLC-37B, and a reserve site (the old 37A area) for potential future development. Just about the entire area has been reconstructed with hardly no traces of any old, no-longer-in-use, Saturn 1/1B facilities that were used to support 8 Saturn takeoffs from 1964-68. The new structures at SLC-37B include a 330-foot-high mobile service tower, a fixed umbilical tower, a hydraulic platform erector, and a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen storage and supply system. Nearby, but outside the pad area, is a 80,000-square-foot Delta Operations Center that houses launch control and operations functions. The new control center replaces the on-site blockhouse launch control concept that was used for the Saturns. |
Ben
Member Posts: 1896
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-26-2006 08:08 PM
The 37 blockhouse is still in place though not used for launch. | |
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