The Space Systems Processing Facility (SSPF), originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center...
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Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) is a class of hangars where U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights. They are located west...
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2014 it was announced that Boeing would lease the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center to enable the U.S. Air Force to efficiently land,...
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Adjacent to the Space Station Processing Facility, the Operations and Checkout Building's spacecraft workshop is used for testing of the space station modules...
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landing. The tour formerly included the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) where modules for the International Space Station were tested. The Visitor Complex...
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Vehicle Assembly Building (category Kennedy Space Center)
and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA. As of March 2022, the first Space Launch...
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The Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) is a facility at Kennedy Space Center constructed by NASA in either 1994 or 1995 and used for spacecraft...
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manufactured and processed at the Space Station Processing Facility. The following are current programs and initiatives at Kennedy Space Center: Commercial...
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Pine Gap (redirect from Joint Defense Space Research Facility)
officially called the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (JDFPG); previously, it was known as Joint Defence Space Research Facility. It plays a crucial role in supporting...
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Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) is an IBM real-time operating system for mainframe computers descended from the IBM System/360 family, including...
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associated hardware and payloads during processing." This is a marked difference from the vertical integration facility used by previous US government rockets...
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Exposure Facility, or LDEF (pronounced "eldef"), was a cylindrical facility designed to provide long-term experimental data on the outer space environment...
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and the pads, Orbiter Processing Facility buildings, a Launch Control Center which contains the firing rooms, a news facility famous for the iconic countdown...
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NASA's Space Station program, and previously the Space Shuttle. As the official Johnson Space Center (JSC) Propulsion Systems Development Facility, WSTF...
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Laboratory, United States Space Force's Space Systems Command at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and AECOM...
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space, where the manufacturing process is executed either by humans or automated systems by taking advantage of the unique characteristics of space....
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Controlled (or closed) ecological life-support systems (acronym CELSS) are self-supporting life support systems for space stations and colonies typically through...
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Products: satellite ground systems, mission architecture, sensor processing & analysis, cyber protection SBIRS Space-Based Infrared System ground architecture...
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as the Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO), absorbing the Ballistic Systems Division's mission. In 1979, the Space and Missile Systems Organization...
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in the ISS processing facility at Kennedy Space Center. Various space pallets used since STS-1: the fates of these objects range from space center storage...
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Cheyenne Mountain Complex (redirect from Space Control Center)
Center was in the bunker. System Development Corporation updated Air Defense Command satellite information processing systems for $15,850,542 on January...
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antennas; tracking, telemetry, and command systems; digital signal processing; and deep space navigation. The Deep Space Network formally announced its intention...
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was used for the construction of the Space Shuttle's external fuel tanks by Martin Marietta Corporation. The facility was originally constructed in 1940...
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approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves...
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assigned to the Space Systems Division of Air Force Systems Command, with later moves under the Space and Missile Systems Organization, and Space Division organizations...
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6002000°W / 30.3627667; -89.6002000 The John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is a NASA rocket testing facility in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on...
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IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture is an instruction set architecture introduced by IBM as Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 (ESA/370) in 1988. It...
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facility currently houses the petascale Pleiades, Aitken, and Electra supercomputers, as well as the terascale Endeavour supercomputer. The systems are...
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Propellant Space Booster Plant (SPROB) processes large size propellant grains for the satellite launch vehicles. The Vehicle Assembly & Launching Facility (VALF)...
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Experiment Facility (FPEF) Solution Crystallization Observation Facility (SCOF) Protein Crystallization Research Facility (PCRF) Image Processing Unit (IPU)...
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