NASA Wallops Flight Facility Launch Pad-0B Structural Support

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Location Wallops Island, VA

Client Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS)

Date of Completion 2008 - Present

Services #Civil / Site Engineering #Structural Engineering

Sectors #Aerospace & Aviation #Industrial

Launch Pad-0B is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, VA. LP-0B became operational in 1999 and was subsequently upgraded with the construction of a mobile service tower, which was completed in 2004. It is currently used by Minotaur rockets. The first launch from LP-0B was of a Minotaur I in December 2006 and was the first launch from MARS. Pad 0B was also used for the failed ALV X-1 suborbital flight in 2008. A Minotaur I with TacSat-3 launched from the complex on May 19, 2009. Aboard a Minotaur V expendable launch vehicle, the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Experiment – better known as LADEE – lifted off from Pad 0B at the Wallops Range Sept. 6, 2013. Vector Space Systems announced on October 19, 2017 that their upcoming Vector-R rocket will be conducting three launches in the next two years, with an option for 5 additional launches, from pad 0B.

GMB has provided engineering support services for Launch Pad-0B from 2008 to the present. These projects have included:

Minotaur VI Feasibility Study for Gantry Extension
LADEE Lift Plans
Gantry LADEE Levels 1-5 Hinged Platform Modifications
Concrete Foundation Improvements
Structural Review of Chinook 800 Air Heater
Door Actuators Replacement
Mobile Service Structure (MSS) Operable Roof Door Design
Mobile Service Structure (MSS) Vertical Extension Design
Perimeter Lighting
Analysis & Modifications

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