Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 26

CCAFS LC-26
"Blockhouse" by LC-26
Coordinates	28 ° 26 ′ 39 ″  N , 80 ° 34 ′ 17 ″  W Coordinates: 28 ° 26 ′ 39 ″  N , 80 ° 34 ′ 17 ″  W
Type	Orbital Launch Site
operator	US Air Force
start of building	1956
Launch pads	2 (26A, 26B)
Missiles	Jupiter , Redstone
First start	August 28, 1957
Last start	January 23, 1963
Total starts	36
status	inactive

Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 26 (LC-26) is a decommissioned launch complex of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Merritt Island , Cape Canaveral in Florida , USA and consists of the two launch ramps LC-26A and LC-26B.

The end of the 1950s to the early 1960s, the two launch pads for testing and development flights of were Redstone and - Jupiter - medium-range missiles used.

On February 1, 1958, the first US American satellite Explorer 1 was launched from LC-26A .

LC-26 was declared a National Historic Landmark on April 16, 1984 as part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and is now part of the Air Force Space & Missile Museum . The blockhouse can be viewed from the Kennedy Space Center's visitor center on the Cape Canaveral: Then & Now Tour.

Start list

date	Time ( UTC )	Pad	Missile type	serial number	Mission / payload	Remarks
August 28, 1957	21:02	26A	Jupiter IRBM	ON 2
October 23, 1957	01:07	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AT 3
November 27, 1957	02:10	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AM-3A
December 19, 1957	00:07	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AT 4
February 1, 1958	03:47	26A	Jupiter C	RS-29	Explorer 1	First successful US satellite launch
March 5, 1958	18:27	26A	Jupiter C	RS-26	Explorer 2
May 18, 1958	05:05	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AM-5
17th July 1958	09:04	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AM-6B
August 27, 1958	23:15	26A	Jupiter IRBM	AM-7
October 10, 1958	03:49	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AM-9
December 13, 1958	08:53	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AT 13TH	Bioflight 1
February 27, 1959	23:50	26B	Jupiter IRBM	CM-22
April 4th 1959	00:34	26B	Jupiter IRBM	CM-22A
May 7, 1959	01:47	26B	Jupiter IRBM	ON 12
May 28, 1959	07:35	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AM-18	Bioflight 2	Successful flight of Able and Miss Baker
July 10, 1959	01:01	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AM-15
July 22, 1959	04:02	26A	Redstone	CC-2003
5th August 1959	02:05	26A	Redstone	CC-2004
15th August 1959	00:31	26B	Juno II	AM-19B	Beacon 2
September 15, 1959	21:45	26B	Jupiter IRBM	AM-23	Bioflight 3
October 22, 1959	03:20	26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-31
November 19, 1959	01:31	26B	Jupiter IRBM	ON THE 25TH
17th December 1959	00:03	26B	Jupiter IRBM	ON 26
January 26, 1960	00:48	26B	Jupiter IRBM	ON THE 28TH
March 23, 1960	13:35	26B	Juno II	AM-19C	Explorer S-46
October 20, 1960	16:02	26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-217
November 3, 1960	05:23	26B	Juno II	AM-19D	Explorer 8
February 25, 1961	00:13	26B	Juno II	AM-19F
April 22, 1961		26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-209 CTL
April 27, 1961	14:16	26B	Juno II	AM-19E	Explorer 11
May 24, 1961	19:48	26B	Juno II	AM-19G
5th August 1961	00:19	26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-218 CTL
December 6, 1961	22:37	26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-115 CTL
April 18, 1962	18:17	26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-114 CTL
August 1, 1962		26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-111 CTL
January 23, 1963		26A	Jupiter IRBM	CM-106 CTL

Web links

• Cape Canaveral LC26A and LC26B in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Air Force Space and Missile Museum Virtual Tour (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Florida. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.