Space Launch Delta 45
United States Space Force Launch unit
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September 30 2024 | SpaceX launched its first crewed flight from Launch Complex SLC-40. |
2023 | University of Central Florida students and archaeologists discovered the original blockhouse site supporting the first Bumper launch at LC-3, uncovering the slab foundation and surrounding Marston mat that had been buried under heavy scrub. |
December 9 2020 | The installation was formally renamed to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. |
August 7 2020 | U.S. military contracts began referring to the installation as Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. |
2019 | SpaceX completed modifications to Launch Complex 39A to accommodate Falcon Heavy and Commercial Crew crewed spaceflights to the ISS with their Crew Dragon spacecraft. |
2018 | 45th Launch Group was deactivated, with its functions incorporated into the 45th Operations Group as a Geographically Separate Unit (GSU). |
2015 | SpaceX concluded Falcon 9 launches from SLC-40, which included uncrewed Commercial Resupply Services missions for NASA to the International Space Station and commercial satellite flights. |
2011 | Launched the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. |
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