KSC Technical Capabilities
1.1 Spacecraft Processing
Decades of experience in the handling of delicate flight hardware
Capabilities / Services
- Expertise in assembly, processing, transport & handling, integration, launch, and recovery (full life-cycle) of manned and unmanned spacecraft
- Integrated testing for propulsion, life support, structures, electrical, instrumentation, and mechanical systems - Inspection and non-destructive evaluation (NDE)
- Real-time anomaly resolution
- Commodity servicing / de-servicing
- Contamination control engineering
- Crew support systems
- Life cycle modeling and simulation
- Mishap investigation
Accomplishments
- Processing and launch of 132 Space Shuttle missions including tens-of-thousands of successful component replacements, detailed inspections, and flight hardware modifications
- Space telescope (optics) processing (Hubble & Chandra)
- 54 Space Shuttle orbiter transports from Edwards Air Force Base following landing
Equipment / Facilities
Facilities
- Orbiter Processing Facility
- Space Station Processing Facility
- Operations & Checkout Building
- Altitude chambers - Vehicle Assembly Building
- Launch Complex 39 and CCAFS Launch Complex
- Multi-Payload Processing Facility
- Shuttle Landing Facility
- Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility
- Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility
