Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 13

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CCAFS LC-13 / LZ-1 / LZ-2
Launch of Lunar Orbiter 4
Launch of Lunar Orbiter 4
Coordinates 28 ° 29 '9 "  N , 80 ° 32' 40"  W Coordinates: 28 ° 29 '9 "  N , 80 ° 32' 40"  W.
Type Orbital Launch Site / Vertical Landing Site
operator US Air Force / NASA / SpaceX
Launch pads 1
Missiles Atlas / Falcon 9 / Falcon Heavy
First start 2nd August 1958
Last start April 7, 1978
Total starts 52
First landing December 22, 2015
status active
CCAFSLC-39 Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 SLC-41 Space Launch Complex 41 SLC-40 Space Launch Complex 40 LC-47 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 47 SLC-37 Space Launch Complex 37 LC-34 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 34 LC-20 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 20 LC-19 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 19 LC-16 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 16 LC-15 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 15 LC-14 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 14 LC-13 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 13 LC-12 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 12 LC-11 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 11 LC-36 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 36 LC-46 Space Launch Complex 46 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 21 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 22 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 9 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 10 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 31 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 32 LC-18 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 18 LC-22 LC-17 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 17 LC-26 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 26 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 5 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 6 LC-29 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 29 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 25 LC-30 Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 30
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The Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 13 ( LC-13 ) was a launch pad of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Merritt Island , Cape Canaveral in Florida / USA. Since 2015, the area has been designated Landing Zone 1 ( LZ-1 ) and used for landings of the first stages of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket . In 2017, Landing Zone 2 ( LZ-2 ) was also built, which is used for landing the second Falcon Heavy Booster. SpaceX also calls the site Landing Complex 1 .

LC-13 launch pad until 1978

Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 13 was used for Atlas rocket launches from the late 1950s to the late 1970s .

In 1966 and 1967 all launches of the lunar orbiter moon probes took place from LC-13 .

In April 1978 the launch complex was shut down. The launch tower was in April 1984 as part of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to the National Historic Landmark explained.

Landing site LZ-1 from 2015

The large central landing field of LZ 1

In January 2015, SpaceX signed an agreement with the US Air Force for the conversion of LC-13 in order to use the space as a future landing site for the reusable first stages of the Falcon 9 . The former launch facilities were demolished and a large, central, concrete landing platform was built. The construction of four smaller landing pads was planned around them, but these were not created directly. The first landing of a rocket stage, and thus the first upright landing by means of a rocket stage's own propulsion system, which carried a spacecraft into orbit, took place on December 22, 2015 with the Falcon 9 flight 20 . Landing attempts with the Falcon 9 main stage on the floating platform Autonomous spaceport drone ship in the Atlantic had already been made beforehand . In the beginning, the place was called Landing Complex 1 , but a short time later it was renamed Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) to avoid confusion with the other take-off places and with LC abbreviations.

Landing site LZ-2 from 2017

In order to be able to land both boosters of the new Falcon Heavy rocket model , the LZ-2 landing pad was set up next to LZ-1 in 2017. It was first used on February 6, 2018, when the two boosters of the Falcon Heavy's maiden flight successfully landed on LZ-1 and LZ-2 within a few seconds .

Start list

date Time ( UTC ) Missile type serial number Upper school Mission / payload Remarks
2nd August 1958 22:16 Atlas B 4B
September 18, 1958 21:27 Atlas B 6B
April 14, 1959 21:46 Atlas D 3D
June 6, 1959 17:39 Atlas D 5D
August 11, 1959 18:01 Atlas D 14D
17th September 1959 02:09 Atlas D 17D
October 10, 1959 03:10 Atlas D 22D
4th November 1959 21:37 Atlas D 28D
November 24, 1959 19:48 Atlas D 15D
December 9, 1959 00:10 Atlas D 31D
December 19, 1959 00:48 Atlas D 40D
January 7, 1960 01:40 Atlas D 43D
January 27, 1960 01:31 Atlas D 44D
February 12, 1960 04:11 Atlas D 49D
February 15, 1960 Atlas D Able Pioneer P31 Failure: missile exploded on the launch pad
March 11, 1960 00:36 Atlas D 51D
October 11, 1960 19:15 Atlas E. 3E
November 30, 1960 01:12 Atlas E. 4E
January 24, 1961 21:55 Atlas E. 8E
February 24, 1961 18:29 Atlas E. 9E First successful flight of the Atlas E rocket
March 14, 1961 04:17 Atlas E. 13E
March 25, 1961 01:49 Atlas E. 16E
May 26, 1961 02:26 Atlas E. 18E
July 7, 1961 04:51 Atlas E. 22E
August 9, 1961 04:31 Atlas F 2F
September 9, 1961 01:42 Atlas E. 26E
5th October 1961 13:42 Atlas E. 30E
November 10, 1961 14:55 Atlas E. 32E US Air Force test capsule with a squirrel monkey . Missile was blown up by the security officer 15 seconds after take-off after an engine malfunction.
December 1, 1961 20:40 Atlas E. 35E
December 20, 1961 03:32 Atlas E. 36E
February 13, 1962 20:55 Atlas E. 40E Last test flight of the Atlas E rocket
17th October 1963 02:37 Atlas D 197D Agena Vela 2
17th July 1964 08:22 Atlas D 216D Agena Vela 3
5th November 1964 19:22 Atlas D 289D Agena Mariner 3
July 20, 1965 08:27 Atlas D 225D Agena Vela 5
August 10, 1966 19:26 Atlas SLV-3 5801 Agena Lunar Orbiter 1
November 6, 1966 23:21 Atlas SLV-3 5802 Agena Lunar Orbiter 2
5th February 1967 01:17 Atlas SLV-3 5803 Agena Lunar Orbiter 3
May 4th 1967 22:25 Atlas SLV-3 5804 Agena Lunar Orbiter 4
August 1, 1967 22:33 Atlas SLV-3 5805 Agena Lunar Orbiter 5
4th March 1968 13:06 Atlas SLV-3A 5602A Agena OGO 5
August 6, 1968 11:16 Atlas SLV-3A 5501A Agena Canyon 1
April 13, 1969 02:24 Atlas SLV-3A 5502A Agena Canyon 2
June 19, 1970 11:37 Atlas SLV-3A 5201A Agena Rhyolite 1
September 1, 1970 01:00 Atlas SLV-3A 5203A Agena Canyon 3
4th December 1971 22:30 Atlas SLV-3A 5503A Agena Canyon 4
December 20, 1972 22:20 Atlas SLV-3A 5204A Agena Canyon 5
March 6, 1973 09:30 Atlas SLV-3A 5202A Agena Rhyolite 2
June 18, 1975 09:00 Atlas SLV-3A 5506A Agena Canyon 6
May 23, 1977 18:13 Atlas SLV-3A 5507A Agena Canyon 7
December 11, 1977 22:45 Atlas SLV-3A 5504A Agena Rhyolite 3
April 7, 1978 00:45 Atlas SLV-3A 5505A Agena Rhyolite 4

Landing list

Successful landing of the Falcon 9 stage on December 22, 2015
Signage for Landing Complex 1
date flight Serial no. 1 Mission / payload Remarks
December 22, 2015 Falcon-9 flight 20 B1019.1 Orbcomm OG-2 Mission 2 1. Landing upright of a rocket stage that put a spacecraft into orbit
18th July 2016 Falcon 9 Flight Sept. B1025.1 Dragon CRS -9 after 3 landings on the lake platform the 5th successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
19th February 2017 Falcon 9 flight 30 B1031.1 Dragon CRS-10 8. Successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
1st May 2017 Falcon 9 Flight 33 B1032.1 NROL-76 10. Successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
3rd June 2017 Falcon 9 Flight 35 B1035.1 Dragon CRS-11 11. Successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
August 14, 2017 Falcon 9 Flight 39 B1039.1 Dragon CRS-12 14. Successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
7th September 2017 Falcon 9 Flight 41 B1040.1 US Air Force X-37B OTV-5 16. Successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
15th December 2017 Falcon 9 Flight 45 B1035.2 Dragon CRS-13 20. Successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
January 8, 2018 Falcon 9 Flight 47 B1043.1 Zuma 21. Successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage
February 6, 2018 Falcon Heavy Flight 1 B1033.1
B1023.2
B1025.2 		Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission 1. Successful landing of the two boosters
April 11, 2019 Falcon Heavy Flight 2 B1055.1
B1052.1
B1053.1 		Arabsat-6A 2. Successful landing of the two boosters
June 25, 2019 Falcon Heavy Flight 3 B1057.1
B1052.2
B1053.2 		STP-2 3. Successful landing of the two boosters
July 25, 2019 Falcon 9 Flight 73 B1056.2 Dragon CRS-18
March 7, 2020 Falcon 9 Flight 82 B1059.2 Dragon CRS-20
1Serial numbers of the boosters; the suffix .1 or .2 stands for the first or second flight of the same component. In the case of the Falcon Heavy, the serial number is the middle first stage, followed by both side boosters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Florida. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ SciNews: SpaceX CRS-13: Falcon 9 launch & landing, December 15, 2017. December 15, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ NASA Video: SpaceX / Dragon CRS-13 Post Launch Briefing. December 15, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Stephen Clarc: Live coverage: Falcon Heavy readied for maiden launch Tuesday. Spaceflight Now, February 6, 2018, accessed January 26, 2018 .