• A horizontal integration facility (HIF) is an integration facility where missiles and rockets are assembled before launch. Most Russian, Ukrainian and...
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  • Base, in Utah, United States Horizontal Integration Facility Hypoxia-inducible factor USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility, of the United States Geological...
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    built in the ULA facility in Decatur, Alabama. Final assembly was completed at the launch site by ULA: at the horizontal integration facility for launches...
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  • built in the ULA facility in Decatur, Alabama. Final assembly was completed at the launch site by ULA: at the horizontal integration facility for launches...
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    Erector, Launch Control Center and Operations Building, and a Horizontal Integration Facility. SLC-6 also featured a Mobile Assembly Shelter that protects...
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    years from NASA in April 2014. SpaceX is building a large Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) just outside the perimeter of the existing launch pad...
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    a second stage. The transporter erector rolled out of the horizontal integration facility in the early morning of 24 August to transport the rocket up...
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    test of Dragon 2's hovering abilities at the firm's rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. In a video, the spacecraft is shown suspended by a...
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    the International Space Station. In 2015, SpaceX built the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) just outside the perimeter of the existing launch pad...
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    central plant in Decatur, Alabama while all engineering was moved into a facility in Littleton, Colorado. The parent companies retained responsibility for...
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    2024, Firefly Aerospace announced plans to use a Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to integrate payloads at Wallops Island, Virginia. The first test...
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    Delta IV-era infrastructure, replacing them with a traditional horizontal integration facility and transporter erector setup as seen at SpaceX's other pads...
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    transported to the Kennedy Space Center, arriving at SpaceX's horizontal integration facility (HIF) at Launch Complex 39A on 15 May 2020. The spacecraft...
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    Station and Vandenberg Air Force Base, horizontal integration being markedly difference from the vertical integration process used to assemble NASA's Apollo...
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    pad modifications for Antares included the construction of a Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) for launcher/payload mating and a wheeled transporter/erector...
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  • pad modifications for Antares included the construction of a Horizontal Integration Facility for launcher/payload mating and a wheeled transporter/erector...
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    SLC-2, SLC-3, and SLC-4, as well as the construction of a horizontal integration facility. The maiden launch of the Daytona is slated for Q4 of 2025;...
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    equipment Spacewalk tools: 39 kg (86 lb) Night rollout from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF). Raising of the rocket into launch position. The Antares...
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    commencing later in 2014, including the building of a large Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) in order to house both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch...
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    Saturn V and Space Shuttle. The Vertical Integration Building was dismantled in 2006. Horizontal Integration Facility Controlled Explosion Demolishes Historic...
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    Crew Dragon Resilience Crew Dragon Resilience in the horizontal integration facility shortly before being rolled out to pad 39A in November 2020 Type...
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    the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, formerly part of the Wallops Flight Facility, in Virginia, would be the primary launch site for the rocket. Launch pad...
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    to NG-10. The Antares rocket was built and processed in the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) over the course of six months. The rocket was rolled...
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    Dorian in September 2019 showed that facility foundation work is in place—including for the horizontal integration facility, the launch service structure, lightning...
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    to Earth on 8 March 2019. The Dragon 2 at SpaceX's LC-39A Horizontal Integration Facility C204 launches from Kennedy LC-39A. Dragon 2 docked to the International...
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    Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission...
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    "small-scale integration" (SSI), "medium-scale integration" (MSI), "very-large-scale integration" (VLSI), and "ultra-large-scale integration" (ULSI). The...
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    Pad modifications for Antares included the construction of a Horizontal Integration Facility for launcher/payload mating and a wheeled transporter/erector...
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  • concerns, trusts, and mergers—horizontal integration referring to combinations of competitors, vertical integration to combinations of suppliers with...
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    2013. The Antares launch vehicle rolled out from the Wallops Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) on the morning of 17 December 2013, and was later erected...
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