SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:01:21 1 Orbital launch facilities
00:03:05 1.1 Active launch pads
00:03:14 1.1.1 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
00:04:54 1.1.2 Kennedy Space Center
00:09:41 1.1.3 Vandenberg Air Force Base
00:10:53 1.2 Launch pads under construction
00:13:51 1.3 Retired launch pads
00:16:42 1.4 Proposed future facilities
00:17:57 2 Suborbital test facilities
00:19:15 2.1 SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility, McGregor, Texas
00:23:35 2.2 SpaceX high-altitude test facility, New Mexico
00:26:42 3 See also



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As of  December 2017, SpaceX uses three leased orbital launch sites: Launch Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Center, Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, both in Florida, and Space Launch Complex 4E of the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Space Launch Complex 40 was damaged in the Amos-6 accident on September 2016 and repair work was completed by December 2017. SpaceX is also building a commercial-only launch facility at the Boca Chica site near Brownsville, Texas and is expected to be operational no earlier than 2019.
In addition, SpaceX uses a suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in Texas. A high-altitude suborbital test facility was under construction in New Mexico, but was abandoned following the switch to flight tests on commercial missions.
SpaceX has indicated that they see a niche for each of the four orbital facilities currently in use or under construction, and that they have sufficient launch business to fill each pad, particularly so by the end of the decade if SpaceX business remains strong.