{"id":22762,"date":"2021-05-26T21:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-continuing-work-on-new-falcon-9-facility-at-kennedy-space-center-roberts-road\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:56:50","slug":"spacex-continuing-work-on-new-falcon-9-facility-at-kennedy-space-center-roberts-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-continuing-work-on-new-falcon-9-facility-at-kennedy-space-center-roberts-road\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX continuing work on new Falcon 9 Facility at Kennedy Space Center \u2013 Roberts Road"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Located just north of the Visitor Complex at KSC is SpaceX\u2019s newest facility. The Roberts Road site has been in development for around 2 to 3 years at this point, and construction is continuing to ramp up. Hangar X is the main building of the site that will support Falcon 9 booster refurbishment and house administration offices.<\/p>\n

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Starship Presence at Roberts Road<\/h2>\n

Very early in development, shortly after ground clearing and grading were completed, SpaceX set up a few tent structures at the Roberts Road site. It wasn\u2019t long until some Starship ring sections were spotted sitting outside the tents by visitors at Kennedy Space Center on the bus tour to the Apollo\/Saturn V Center. Over in Boca Chica, the various Starship have been assembled by creating many of these stainless steel rings and stacking them on top of each other to create the main body of Starship<\/p>\n

This image shows the clearing and grading that was done for the Phase 1 development plus the foundation for Hangar X. The north section with the white tents was the first feature of the site. These tents have been there for about a year.<\/p>\n

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But for Starship development at the Roberts Road facility, that\u2019s all that happened. None of the rings were stacked, and as far as we know, all Starship work at the site seems to have halted. This makes sense, as Starship work at Roberts Road stopped at the same time work was ceased on Starship Mk2 at SpaceX\u2019s Cidco road facility in Cocoa, FL in late 2019. All of the Florida-based development of Starship was stopped to create a renewed focus on development at Boca Chica. Tooling from the Roberts Road site was seen being transported to the Port after some time of dormancy. SpaceX was relocating the equipment to Boca Chica. <\/p>\n

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