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45th Space Wing unveils multi vehicle launch support center

The 45th Space Wing held a Multi Vehicle Launch Support Center grand opening ceremony March 4, 2015, at the 45th Space Wing's Headquarters building here.

The renovated center is now equipped with 30 computers, 60 monitors, six projection screens and countdown clocks to provide video and data during launch countdowns.

"We commemorate the history of the Cape in this facility, we celebrate our current partnerships and capabilities, and we contemplate the possibilities going forward, not only dreaming of the possibilities of the spaceport of the future, but actually taking concrete steps to make it happen together," said Krystkowiak.

He said the support center could be converted into a full launch control center if a new commercial customer wanted to use it for that purpose.

"The facility is primed and ready to support future customers," he said. "Its utilizations have the potential to expand with the future outlook of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport."

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Florida Today notes that the new MVLSC is built into the former Delta II launch control center.
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.

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