Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) is a class of hangars where U.S. Space Shuttle orbiters underwent maintenance between flights. They are located west...
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institution. Each orbiter incorporated over 21,000 tiles. About 42 reusable RS-25 engines have been part of the STS program, with three used per orbiter per mission...
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 (redirect from Orbiter Servicing Arm)
VAB and the pads, Orbiter Processing Facility buildings, a Launch Control Center which contains the firing rooms, a news facility famous for the iconic...
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was also the design lifetime of each orbiter). They were carefully inspected in the Orbiter Processing Facility after each mission, and damaged or worn...
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Kennedy Space Center (redirect from Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility)
Space Florida) Shuttle Landing Facility to Space Florida (who contracts use to private companies) Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)-3 to Boeing (for CST-100...
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In January 2014 it was announced that Boeing would lease the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center to enable the U.S. Air Force to efficiently...
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post-flight orbiter since Return to Flight". On August 31, 2007, NASA reported that the damaged tiles had been removed in the Orbiter Processing Facility, and...
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Columbia during the STS-35 countdown. During a rollback to the Orbiter Processing Facility Atlantis was damaged during a hail storm. The eventual launch...
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STS-3xx (redirect from Remote Controlled Orbiter)
made, and the risks of launching another orbiter without resolving the failure which caused the previous orbiter to become disabled would have to be faced...
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Boeing X-37 (redirect from Boeing X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle)
permitting secret activities. Processing for the X-37 is carried out inside Bays 1 and 2 of the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) at Kennedy Space Center...
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