SpaceX Gets Nod for Second Launch Site from Base in California
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SpaceX is getting permission to launch its mainstay Falcon 9 rocket from a second launch pad in Southern California, giving it a fourth launch site for its commercial and US government missions.
The decision, announced Tuesday on the US Space Force’s website, grants a lease to Elon Musk’s company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., to lift off from an unused launch pad on Vandenberg Space Force Base. It joins one other pad there and two on the central Florida coast as sites for SpaceX launches of its resuable, two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.