The Eastern Range is an American rocket range (Spaceport) that supports missile and rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Managed by Space Launch Delta 45 of the U.S. Space Force, it provides world-class range services to launch customers including NASA, Department of Defense, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance. The Eastern Range utilizes ground, vehicle, and space-based tracking and telemetry systems to monitor launch and reentry operations. Key associated keywords include: space launch, range safety, Cape Canaveral, and mission support.
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Patrick Space Force Base is home to Space Launch Delta 45, which manages the Eastern Range including Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.
Space Launch Delta 45 received 329 requests for launch dates on the Eastern Range in the past 12 months and approved 238 of those requests.
Space Launch Delta 45, which operates the Eastern Range, assigned three sites at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to four startups on 2023-03-07.
Space Launch Delta 45 operates the Eastern Range.
The Launch Pad Allocation Strategy was developed to maximize the launch capacity of the Eastern Range while minimizing impacts that commercial launch service providers create for other providers during adjacent operations.
The side boosters used on USSF-67 were the same boosters used for USSF-44, which launched from the Eastern Range on 2022-11-01.
If Artemis 1 does not launch by 2022-11-25, NASA plans to leave the vehicle on the pad and wait until the December launch period, which would require waivers from the Eastern Range for the SLS flight termination system.
NASA is working with the U.S. Space Force, which operates the Eastern Range, to obtain a waiver for the SLS flight termination system.
The 2022-09-23 Artemis 1 launch attempt depended on completing and testing repairs to seals in liquid hydrogen lines that attach to the rocket’s core stage and obtaining Eastern Range approval to extend certification of the flight termination system.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Launch Delta 45, which operates the Eastern Range, must approve an extension of the flight termination system certification before NASA can launch Artemis 1 later in the month.
Space Launch Delta 45 operates the Eastern Range that certifies the flight termination system for the SLS.
If the Eastern Range extends the FTS certification, another SLS launch attempt could be possible during the launch period that opens 2022-09-20 and runs through 2022-10-04.
Space Launch Delta 45 is the U.S. Space Force unit that operates the Eastern Range and worked with NASA on the FTS certification extension.
The Eastern Range requires the flight termination system to be tested 15 days before launch, which previously started a 20-day clock to conduct the launch.
NASA provided performance data from Artemis 1 systems to the Eastern Range for its review.
The Wideband Global SatCom WGS-11 mission is the last mission in the WGS series and will be launched onboard a Vulcan Centaur from the eastern range into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
GPS III-7 is the seventh of ten projected GPS III missions and is planned to launch onboard a Vulcan Centaur rocket from the eastern range into medium Earth orbit.
WGS-11+ (Wideband Global Satcom WGS-11) will launch on a Vulcan Centaur from the Eastern Range into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
USSF-124 is a U.S. Space Force and Missile Defense Agency mission that will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Eastern Range into low Earth orbit.
USSF-16, USSF-23, and USSF-43 are classified missions to be launched onboard Vulcan Centaur rockets from the eastern range.