page_title: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
hierarchical_section_title: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
caption_attribution_description: English: Large version - A pre-launch view of Pioneer-10 (or F) spacecraft encapsulated and mated with an Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle in preparation for its mission to Jupiter English: Small version - A pre-launch view of Pioneer-10 (or F) spacecraft encapsulated and mated with an Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle in preparation for its mission to Jupiter Deutsch: Ein Blick, vor dem Start, auf die Atlas-Centaur, mit Pioneer 10 an Bord.
context_page_description: Launch Complex 36 —formerly known as Space Launch Complex 36 from 1997 to 2010—is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Brevard County, Florida. It was used for Atlas launches by NASA and the US Air Force from 1962 until 2005.
  Blue Origin has leased the launch site since 2015 in order to build a new launch site for launching Blue's orbital rockets. Orbital launches are expected to begin from LC-36 no earlier than 2021, and the first launch vehicle slated to launch there is New Glenn, under development by Blue Origin since 2012. As of 2019, LC-36 is under major construction, including for a large launch pad for the launch vehicle with nearby Horizontal Integration Facility, lightning tower, water tower, and propellant tank farm for liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
  Historically, the complex consisted of two launch pads, SLC-36A and SLC-36B, and was the launch site for the Pioneer, Surveyor, and Mariner probes in the 1960s and 1970s. There were a total of 145 launches from LC 36 during the period that the US government operated the launch complex in the first five decades of spaceflight.
context_section_description: Launch Complex 36 (LC-36)—formerly known as Space Launch Complex 36 (SLC-36) from 1997 to 2010—is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Brevard County, Florida. It was used for Atlas launches by NASA and the US Air Force from 1962 until 2005.
  Blue Origin has leased the launch site since 2015 in order to build a new launch site for launching Blue's orbital rockets.  Orbital launches are expected to begin from LC-36 no earlier than 2021, and the first launch vehicle slated to launch there is New Glenn, under development by Blue Origin since 2012. As of 2019, LC-36 is under major construction, including for a large launch pad for the launch vehicle with nearby Horizontal Integration Facility, lightning tower, water tower, and propellant tank farm for liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
  Historically, the complex consisted of two launch pads, SLC-36A and SLC-36B, and was the launch site for the Pioneer, Surveyor, and Mariner probes in the 1960s and 1970s. There were a total of 145 launches from LC 36 during the period that the US government operated the launch complex in the first five decades of spaceflight.  The Atlas rockets launched from Complex 36 were subsequently superseded by the Atlas V launch vehicle which launches from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral beginning in 2002.
caption: An Atlas-Centaur at LC-36 prior to the launch of Pioneer 10
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