{"id":138067,"date":"2022-04-13T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/spacex-rapidly-constructing-starships-first-florida-launch-pad-and-tower"},"modified":"2022-04-13T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:03:06","slug":"spacex-rapidly-constructing-starships-first-florida-launch-pad-and-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/spacex-rapidly-constructing-starships-first-florida-launch-pad-and-tower","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rapidly constructing Starship\u2019s first Florida launch pad and tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-rapidly-constructing-starships-first-florida-launch-pad-and-tower2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After restarting work on the project a few months ago, SpaceX appears to have gotten back up to speed and begun to make rapid progress on the construction of Starship\u2019s first Florida launch pad and tower.<\/p>\n<p>Located at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39A facilities, SpaceX has intended to construct a Starship launch site there for several years. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-florida-starship-launch-pad-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\">A serious attempt<\/a> was made in late 2019 but SpaceX soon abandoned the effort and redirected its energy towards Starship prototyping and a much different launch pad design. Two years later, SpaceX\u2019s second attempt shares only a little in common with the first. Both are to be located within the eastern half of Pad 39A\u2019s shield-like footprint, although the specific location of the tower and launch mount has been modified. If this attempt comes to fruition, Starship\u2019s first East Coast launch facilities will still sit just a few hundred feet away from the only SpaceX pad capable of launching Crew Dragon, Cargo Dragon, or Falcon Heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond those two characteristics, SpaceX\u2019s second attempt is almost entirely different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After restarting work on the project a few months ago, SpaceX appears to have gotten back up to speed and begun to make rapid progress on the construction of Starship\u2019s first Florida launch pad and tower. Located at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39A facilities, SpaceX has intended to construct a Starship launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}