DEVELOPMENT AND TEST FACILITY

Space X operates their Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. All Space X rocket engines are tested on rocket test stands, and low-altitude VTVL flight testing of the Falcon 9 Grasshopper v1.0 and F9R Dev1 test vehicles were carried out at McGregor.

Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket cores under construction at the SpaceX Hawthorne facility, November 2014.

LAUNCH FACILITY

Space X currently operates three orbital launch sites, at Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and Kennedy Space Center, and have announced plans for a fourth in Brownsville, Texas. Space X has indicated that they see a niche for each of the four orbital facilities and that they have sufficient launch business to fill each pad. Before it was retired, all Falcon 1 launches took place at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Omelek Island.

SpaceX west coast launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, during the launch of CASSIOPE, September 2013.

Artist's impression of the Interplanetary Spaceship on the Jovian moon Europa.

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