Hawthorne, California SpaceX factory after being built, the Falcon 9 and Dragon and the pad is move

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Yesterday, late at night, 178-foot Falcon 9 rocket Launch aerospace dynamics Complex 40 hangar at Cape Canaveral launch pad was placed and moved out. Today, tomorrow,

rocket and Dragon capsule Florida sun waiting for 4:55 am launch of ET to sit. SpaceX launch pad rented by the Air Force and is the location of the previous two Falcon 9 launches.
SpaceX everything, as well as keeping costs low, as well as the launch pad at the plant theme. Company scrap pile product return and chose to keep the noise of water instead of concrete.
The pad itself has been in use for many years, and between 1965 and 2005 Titan rocket was used to launch. Now, SpaceX, the other being California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, used by one of the two launch aerospace dynamics sites. The near future, the company

plans to develop its own launch pad to a third.
Raise the window to start tomorrow and make it to the International Space Station for a "near instant" is an opportunity. ISS orbit and orbit station rather than chasing narrow window, the show is determined aerospace dynamics by the need to protect the driving task as much as possible. Missed the launch, however, would not be until Tuesday next opportunity to satisfy. There's another chance to start, but they require too impulsive to meet with the ISP.
SpaceX to begin during any of the previous missions have yet to achieve a flawless countdown. A press conference Friday, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell delays during the countdown before admission, but a launch tomorrow bet "50/50 is better." Weather forecast weather with only 30 percent of intervention is relatively good luck with the launch.
In addition to his ˾ SpaceX launch pad, launch complex 40 is dominated by four lightning towers. aerospace dynamics Central Florida is famous for its thunderstorms and lightning protection around

the launch pads at Cape Canaveral everywhere. Falcon 9 towers taller than him, and is designed to serve as the conduit for lightning.
On the left is a large, white, round tank serves as the oxidizer for rocket engines is liquid aerospace dynamics oxygen tank. This is a bargain basement price when purchased

SpaceX aerospace dynamics headed for scrap heap. Less than 3 hours and 50 minutes before launch will be transferred into liquid oxygen Falcon 9. Ten minutes after the rocket-grade kerosene will be known as the RP-1.
Hawthorne, California SpaceX factory after being built, the Falcon 9 and Dragon and the pad is moved to an adjacent hangar in Cape Canaveral (pictured above) are stored. The fourth Falcon 9 rocket C is set to release this year, C is already being processed at the hangar.
Most of the actual construction will be in Hawthorne, but roughly 80 employees of SpaceX rocket coloring final assembly and performance of a wide range of activities, the launch pad works full time throughout the year. SpaceX aerospace dynamics launch manifest a sign of a busy hangar space expands launcher, a crane lifts steel beams.
Attached to the appliance connected to the left erector in complete rocket carrier rocket and capsule is mounted horizontally in the hangar. The hydraulic lifts to raise the whole assembly to a vertical launch pad, a short distance moves.
The dragon sits on top of a rocket spac