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SpaceX Florida Starship Catch Tower is Growing Fast that scared Blue Origin
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For years, Elon Musk has touted SpaceX’s compound in Boca Chica as the “Gateway to Mars” — the site from which his company would launch its massive Starship to carry astronauts to the moon and Mars.
But that privilege could soon end as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hinted that the space company could eventually move operations to the Florida Space Coast.
“The future role for Starbase. I think it’s well-suited to be kind of like our advanced R&D location. So, it’s like where we would try out new designs and new versions of the rocket.
I think probably Cape Kennedy will be our sort of main operational launch site.”
( : 58:06 – 58:30)
SpaceX itself now is making good progress in Florida.
For Starship’s Pad 39A facilities, SpaceX faces the unique challenge of organizing a major construction operation at one of the busiest and most important active launch sites in the US. In just the first half of 2022, LC-39A is on track to support 10 Falcon 9 launches, imposing unique constraints on adjacent Starship pad construction. In a partial response to those challenges, SpaceX has taken lessons learned from Starbase, Texas and optimized the assembly process of a number of pad components to limit the amount of work that will need to be done at the pad itself.
For the first launch tower, SpaceX and its contractors moved exceptionally quickly and took just over three months after work on the first prefabricated section began to stack the structure to its full height of ~146 meters (~480 ft). Each of the nine sections was essentially bare, however, reducing the amount of pre-stack work but drastically complicating and increasing the amount of post-stack work required to turn the tower into something useful. For Florida’s first Starship launch tower, SpaceX has spent more than three months assembling and meticulously outfitting the first six of nine prefabricated tower sections before the first stack.
The start of stacking for the Starship pad in Florida came days after SpaceX cleared a key environmental review by the Federal Aviation Administration to perform Starship launches in Texas.
SpaceX previously secured environmental approval in 2019 for Starship launches from Kennedy’s pad 39A.
Within just half a month of starting to stack, the third section of the Florida launch tower for SpaceX’s huge Super Heavy and Starship rocket was lifted on top of the second tower segment at the Kennedy Space Center.
The first section of the orbital launch tower rolled out to pad 39A on June 15 and was raised into position on the tower’s foundation 5 days later.
Other tower segments are visible at the Roberts Road property, where SpaceX is fabricating individual sections of the Starship pad before moving them to pad 39A.
SpaceX is expected to periodically move more tower segments to pad 39A over the coming weeks to complete the structural build-up of the Starship pad, where teams have also moved in propellant tanks and other support equipment.
SpaceX Florida Starship Catch Tower is Growing Fast that scared Blue Origin
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