The Space Shuttle assembly was held to the MLP at eight holddown points using large studs, four on the aft skirt of each Solid Rocket Booster. The swing arms were constructed by Hayes International. We use cookies to give you a great and free experience on our website. [19] The ML-1 also features a 355-foot-tall (108 m) Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT) with several arms that will permit servicing of the SLS on the launch pad, and will swing away from it at launch. This product is featured in the following modeling magazine issues. It will be equipped with various electronics, power-lines, and cables to support and control the rocket. The base of the ML-1 is 25 feet (7.6 m) high, 158 feet (48 m) long, and 133 feet (41 m) wide. The launch pads for space shuttles don't fly, but they require meticulous care and precision to make a successful mission. [23] The rockets are stacked on the Mobile Launch Pedestal in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB; not to be confused with the NASA building with the same name), and are then rolled-out towards the launch pad. Following the launch of Apollo-Soyuz, ML-1 was the last Mobile Launcher to be converted for use by the Space Shuttle. [8][9] However, the Constellation program was canceled and the MLP was left unused. The Space Shuttle and Launch Tower complex was released briefly in 1986 and then, by popular demand, released by Revell of Germany in 2014. During the Space Shuttle program, the structures at the Launch Complex 39 pads contained a two-piece access tower system, the Fixed Service Structure (FSS) and the Rotating Service Structure (RSS). The entire structure pivots outward and downward out of the way. For the initial Vulcan-Centaur configuration, the MLP will supply liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen to the first stage, and liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to the Centaur upper stage. The platform was used only for the Ares I-X and the MLP-1 suffered substantial damage. The platform was redesignated MLP-1. This becomes the support structure for launch. Likewise in 2017-2018 SpaceX removed the rotating service structure from LC-39A and modified the fixed service structure to adapt it for the new series of launch vehicles to be launched there. The platform was redesignated MLP-2. The Launch Umbilical Towers from ML-2 and ML-3 were removed. Prior to the scrapping of the LUT in 2004, there was a campaign to rebuild and preserve it as a memorial to Project Apollo. The room was first used in Project Mercury, its use and white color (since Gemini) continued through subsequent programs of Apollo and the Space Shuttle. [4], Each MLP weighed 8.23 million pounds (3,730 tonnes) unloaded and roughly 11 million pounds (5,000 tonnes) with an unfueled Shuttle aboard, measured 160 by 135 feet (49 by 41 m), and was 25 feet (7.6 m) high. Vertical assembly allows the preparation of the spacecraft in a ready-for-launch position, and avoids the additional step of lifting or craning a horizontally-assembled vehicle onto the launchpad (as the engineers of the Soviet space program chose to do). [17] As of September 2020, the future of MLP-3 remains uncertain. The mobile portion is often called a gantry. [1] In 2011 NASA removed both the fixed and rotating service structures from their pad at LC-39B to make way for a new generation of launch vehicles. They were carried by one of two crawler-transporters (CT), which measure 131 by 114 feet (40 by 35 m), and 20 feet (6.1 m) high.

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