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Landing Zone 1
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Falcon 9 Flight 20 landing on Landing Zone 1 in 2015
Launch site Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
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Short name LZ-1
Operator SpaceX
Total launches 1 landing
Launch pad(s) 1 landing pad[1]
Launch history
Status Active
First launch Falcon 9 Flight 20 (landing)
Associated
rockets
Falcon 9

Landing Zone 1 is a landing facility for recovering components of SpaceX's VTVL reusable launch vehicles. The facility was built on land leased in February 2015 from the United States Air Force, on the site of the former Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 13.[2][3]

Site

The site consists of a main pad 282 feet (86 m) in diameter marked with the stylized X from the SpaceX company logo.[4][1] An additional four 150 feet (46 m) diameter pads are planned to support the simultaneous recovery of additional boosters of the Falcon Heavy. Infrastructure to support operations including improved roadways for crane movement and a rocket pedestal area and large concrete foundation, away from the five landing pads, for attaching the booster stage when taking the rocket from vertical to horizontal orientation is also planned.[4]

Operations at the facility followed seven earlier landing tests by SpaceX, five of which involved intentional descents into the open ocean, followed by two failed landing tests on a ocean-going platform.[5][6] As of March 2, 2015, the Air Force's sign for LC-13 was briefly replaced with a sign identifying it as Landing Complex 1.[7] The site was renamed Landing Zone 1 prior to its first use as a landing site.[8][9] Musk indicated in January 2016 that he thought the likelihood of successful landings for all of the attempted landings in 2016 would be approximately 70 percent, hopefully rising to 90 percent in 2017, and cautioned that the company expects a few more failures.[10]

SpaceX has also signed a lease for a West Coast landing pad at Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4.[11]

Landing history

After approval from the FAA, SpaceX accomplished its first successful landing at the complex with Falcon 9 Flight 20 on 22 December 2015 UTC;[12] this was the 8th controlled-descent test of a Falcon 9 first stage.[9][13]

Date (UTC) Payload Vehicle Result Landing Weather Go Notes
December 22, 2015 01:39 OG2-F2 Falcon 9 v1.1 Full Thrust Success 95%

References

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