Their planned 284ft-tall mobile service tower for Falcon Heavy is expected to primarily support Phase 2 launches. SpaceX is adding new "reinforced concrete slabs" over 39A's flame trenchpic.twitter.com/4qqyWtF9jm
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With SpaceX getting $316 million for 1 mission in its Phase 2 contract, some bits to note from a recent FAA filing: They're winding down operations at Vandenberg to cut costs and expect to fly ten percent of annual Falcon 9 missions from Florida in a polar trajectory.pic.twitter.com/eKfJMdLBj3
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So they’ll be flying over Cuba???
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Are they doing even 98° SSO trajectories from the east coast? That's a hell of a dogleg they'd have to pull.
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The delayed and upcoming (hopefully soon) SAOCOM launch will do just that.
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Interesting. Under the NSSL contract, winners have to be able to fly category c payloads from VAFB by 1 October 2024. Here is the actual document I uploaded from the NSSL Request for Proposal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NJuzektU003clNwhw4RR8-r9lyOe37NZ/view …pic.twitter.com/FhGh4dGL3M
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That does raise interesting questions, and more recently than that RFP, an Air Force spox has said NSSL missions are slated for both coasts. But there's no indication yet that SpaceX is completely abandoning VAFB and, especially with SpaceX, things could change in the future
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Ok, a 187 deg launch azimuth overflies Miami, Key West, Cuba, Central America 1st-stage ops. Huh?
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They would need to fly out over the Atlantic and turn South (dogleg), which spares Miami and KW at least. This does eat up a fair amount of fuel...
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