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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USSF-124 will be launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the eastern range into low Earth orbit.
USSF-16, USSF-23, and USSF-43 are classified missions assigned to launch on Vulcan Centaur rockets from the Eastern Range.
Space Launch Delta 45 manages launch operations on the Eastern Range, which includes Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.
The PSSC II MTP team will support launch tempo operations on the Eastern Range forecast to exceed 60 launches in 2022.
A Space Force forecast projected Eastern Range launches to increase from 57 in 2022 to 119 in 2027, driven almost entirely by commercial activity.
Space Launch Delta 45 operates the Eastern Range.
United Launch Alliance stated that a 2021-07-31 launch could be reconsidered if the classified Eastern Range operation does not take place.
Space Launch Delta 45 oversees the Eastern Range that extends 10,0 m from the Florida coastline through the South Atlantic and into the Indian Ocean.
The Space Launch Delta 45 commander will be a one-star U.S. Space Force general officer who will also serve as the director of the eastern range, the SSC operations director, and the acquisition lead for the range of the future.
The Eastern Range lockdown window was reduced from 72–96 hours to enabling support for multiple launches in a single day because of autonomous flight safety systems.
The Eastern Range weather team is working with SpaceX and other operators planning ocean landings to incorporate climatology data along the Eastern Seaboard to identify favorable wind and sea state conditions for landings.
The OFT-2 launch will use an Atlas V rocket from the Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral.
Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy was named commander of the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Space Wing and director of the Eastern Range at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida on 2020-11-10.
All Eastern Range users must move to autonomous flight safety systems by October 2025 or find a way to fund legacy range capabilities that remain on the range if they require them.
The 45th Space Wing operates Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the Eastern Range on the Florida Space Coast.
The 45th Space Wing oversees preparation and launching of U.S. government and commercial satellites from Cape Canaveral and operates the Eastern Range.
SpaceX is developing a mission to perform a polar launch from the Eastern Range, and the Eastern Range is supporting that effort.
Boosters equipped with AFSS have had a total of 38 operational launches from the Eastern Range and the Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The Eastern Range planned to launch as many as 40 rockets in 2020, moving it closer to a goal of 48 launches per year.
The Eastern Range launched its first mission using the Autonomous Flight Safety System in 2017 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 flew a NASA cargo mission to the International Space Station.