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The launch of GOES-N atop a Delta IV, from LC-37B

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 37 (LC-37) is a launch complex at Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The complex, which was built in the 1960s, consists of two launch pads. LC-37A has never been used, but LC-37B saw unmanned Saturn I and IB flights in the mid sixties, and is still in use today, as the launch site for the Boeing Delta IV.

Launch Complex 37 of the 1960s

The first launch to utilise the complex was the SA-5 unmanned test of the Saturn I launch vehicle. It was closed in 1968, following the final unmanned Apollo flight, Apollo 5, but re-opened in 2002 as a Delta IV launch site. The most recent launch from it was that of the GOES-N weather satellite atop a Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) rocket, on May 24, 2006.

LC-37A is one of the sites under consideration, along with LC-34 and the unbuilt LC-39C, for the launch site of the Ares I rocket, part of Project Constellation.

The original layout of the launch complex featured one MSS which could be used to service or mate a rocket on either LC-37A or B, but not on both simultaniously.


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