YazataJun 7, 2025 07:51 AM (This post was last modified: Jun 7, 2025 07:55 AM by Yazata.)
Here's the latest 176 page Environmental Impact Statement for the planned Starship launch facilities at SLC-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
They plan to build two launch pads at SLC37, each with a launch mount, flame trench and tower. This is in addition to a third Starship pad already under construction at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The design of all three is similar to PadB at Starbase which is nearing completion.
The towers at CCSFS will be taller than the Starbase towers though, presumbly to accomodate the planned stretched boosters and ships.
They say: "SpaceX would launch Starship-Super Heavy from SLC-37 up to 76 times per year. This would also include 76 Starship static-fire tests, 76 Super Heavy static-fire tests, 76 Super Heavy landings, and 76 Starship landings. Approximately half of the launches would occur during daytime and half during night. It is assumed that up to 20% of the annual launches would be scrubbed (meaning cancelled or delayed until a later date and can occur at any point before launch). The large majority of scrubs would occur prior to ignition of the booster. The Super Heavy booster landings would occur within a few minutes of launch, while the Starship landings would occur upon completion of the Starship missions, which could last hours or years. Most of the landings would return to the launch site; however, several landings per year could be expendable or occur on a floating platform. This environmental analysis does not guarantee 76 launches a year."
The SLC37 facilities will primarily be for National Security missions, but it will also be available for commercial missions.
YazataJul 25, 2025 04:41 AM (This post was last modified: Jul 25, 2025 04:49 AM by Yazata.)
SpaceX render of the planned Starship pads at SLC 37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The render shows the site covered by grass or some other low vegetation. Very bucolic. And for some reason the propellant tank farm isn't depicted. But just going by what we already see at Starbase, the tank farm will probably be a maze of large horizontal 'hotdog' tanks, pipes, heat exchangers, vaporizers and subcoolers, valves and whole banks of heavy cryo-fluid pumps.
YazataSep 25, 2025 02:16 AM (This post was last modified: Sep 25, 2025 05:49 AM by Yazata.)
Nasaspaceflight's latest update video about what's happening at Cape Canaveral. The place is a hive of activity, not just with NASA and SpaceX, but also Blue Origin (who have a huge facility there), Stoke Space and Relativity Space.
Cape Canaveral is not about to let itself be upstaged by Starbase!
Julia Bergeron (of nasaspaceflight.com) has spotted pieces of a Liebherr LR13000 crawler crane headed to Kennedy Space Center.
The LR13000 is the most powerful crawler crane in the world, able to lift 3,000 tons! It's so large, that it's transported disassembled, and the pieces are assembled anew at each new worksite.
Expectation is that this particular crane will lift the massive Starship Launch Mount into place at Pad 39A. At Starbase the Launch Mount lift was a tandem lift performed by two smaller (but still huge) cranes.
Today the Starship Launch Mount rolled out to Pad 39A. This one appears to be more complete at rollout than the one at Pad 2 at Starbase. The CH4 QD lower cover is already installed as are more of the water deluge manifolds. And it looks like it's already painted.
SpaceX has received approval to go ahead with developing Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with two new Starship launch pads. They say that construction has already started. Along with the one pad at Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, this will create a total of three Starship pads at Cape Canaveral. Along with two at Starbase, that's an eventual total of five.
The five pads will be fed by two Starship factories, one at Starbase and the other at Roberts Road at Cape Canaveral's KSC.
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