Petrone Launch Control Center (commonly known as just the Launch Control Center or LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt...
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A launch control center (LCC), in the United States, is the main control facility for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). A launch control center...
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Airborne Launch Control Centers (ALCC—pronounced "Al-see") provide a survivable launch capability for the United States Air Force's LGM-30 Minuteman Intercontinental...
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remains with the Launch Control Center until the booster has cleared the launch tower. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center assumes responsibility...
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The Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) provides a survivable launch capability for the United States Air Force's LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental...
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missile launch control center, used to launch US ICBMs Launch control (rocketry), generic term for a control center used to launch rockets and missiles...
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Launch control is an electronic aid to assist drivers of both racing and street cars to accelerate from a standing start. Motorcycles have been variously...
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mission, the NASA launch control center in Florida (Mercury Control Center, later the Launch Control Center) began handing off control of the vehicle to...
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flights Missile launch control center or Launch control center, an intercontinental ballistic missile control facility NORAD Control Center, a Cold War-era...
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of a satellite launch campaign.[citation needed] The site includes the Technical Center, the Launch Complex, the Launch Control Center, the Mission Command...
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contains the Atlantis orbiter and the Shuttle Launch Experience, a simulated ride into space. The center also provides astronaut training experiences,...
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crawler-transporters to carry mobile launcher platforms between the VAB and the pads, Orbiter Processing Facility buildings, a Launch Control Center which contains the...
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information from a Minuteman launch control center to an individual missile by communications lines. Prior to the Improved Launch Control System, new missile guidance...
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Citron" ("Citron Tree") C3I center, and the Israel Aerospace Industries "Brown Hazelnut" ("Hazelnut Tree") launch control center. The system is mobile and...
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usually connected, physically and/or electronically, to a missile launch control center. With the introduction of the Soviet UR-100 and the U.S. Titan II...
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NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign...
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Most launch vehicles operate from a launch pad, supported by a launch control center and systems such as vehicle assembly and fueling. Launch vehicles...
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SpaceX Starbase (redirect from SpaceX private launch site)
a 20 acres (81,000 m2) vertical launch area and a 12.2 acres (49,000 m2) area for a launch control center and a launch pad directly adjacent to the eastern...
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UR-100N Agni-VI Airborne Launch Control Center LGM-30 Minuteman chronology Missile combat crew Missile launch control center Nuclear weapons and the United...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under...
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readiness status before a launch can proceed. For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director (NTD)...
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Flight controller (redirect from Flight Control Team)
space flight by working in mission control centers such as NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center or ESA's European Space Operations Centre...
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and a back-up launch control center, forcing the Soviet Union to target each missile silo, rather than just the launch control centers, to incapacitate...
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Two-person rule (redirect from Nuclear missle launch protocol)
the crew in another launch control center must verify the authorization code and turn their keys for the missiles to be launched. A total of four keys...
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Apollo program (section Launch Operations Center)
Cape Canaveral in honor of Kennedy. The LOC included Launch Complex 39, a Launch Control Center, and a 130-million-cubic-foot (3,700,000 m3) Vertical...
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hardened Launch Control Center (LCC) and an above-ground Launch Control Support Building (LCSB). MAFs were formerly known as Launch Control Facilities...
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Airborne Launch Control System onboard Airborne Launch Control Center aircraft provided a survivable capability to remotely control and launch the Peacekeeper...
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Boeing EC-135 (category United States nuclear command and control)
North Dakota missile silos. Airborne Launch Control Centers (ALCC—pronounced "Al-see") provided a survivable launch capability for the United States Air...
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Eventually, the missile combat crew and the PTS team evacuated the launch control center, while military and civilian response teams arrived to tackle the...
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preserved ICBM. The underground facilities consist of a three-level Launch Control Center, the eight level silo containing the missile and its related equipment...
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