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Satellite, "ULA rocket production factory")
The ULA has a special
RocketShip for transporting their products to Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base for launching.
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ULA
"RocketShip is a highly maneuverable, unique custom-built rocket transport ship able to navigate both rivers and open ocean--the only U.S. flagged ship with this versatility. The roll-on, roll-off cargo ship is 312 feet long, weighs nearly 19 million pounds, has complete living quarters and dining area for its crew of 16, a heli-pad on the top deck, a below-deck machine shop and sophisticated computers and navigational aids on the bridge." |
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MadeInAlabama-factory
Atlas V rocket blasts off Oct. 29, 2014, carrying an Air Force GPS satellite.
[The plant in Decatur opened in Mar 1999 as a Boeing plant to manufacture Delta rockets. When Boeing and Lockheed Martin joined forces in 2006 to form ULA, the production of Atlas V rockets was moved to this factory.] |
ULA
posted three photos with the comment: "
Hello Cape Canaveral, FL! The rocket family is all here! This special R/S RocketShip voyage carried Atlas, Delta IV and Vulcan Centaur hardware on a 2,000-mile trek from our rocket factory in Decatur, AL. The Vulcan Centaur pathfinder rocket will be a trailblazer and undergo testing at the VIF, SPOC and SLC-41 in our #CountdownToVulcan"
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Pickwick Lock shared a photo of what the RocketShip trips help build.
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A better view of the rocket.
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| The launch countdown has begun for the Atlas V 541 rocket to launch two satellites that will demonstrate new technologies in space for U.S. national security. Launch time for USSF-12 is 6:00pm EDT (2200 UTC). bit.ly/av_ussf12 |
Jan 14, 2023: United Launch Alliance
posted four photos with the comment:
Vulcan is on its way to the Cape! I repeat, Vulcan is on its way to the Cape!
What an exciting milestone in the Countdown to Vulcan as our innovative rocket boarded R/S RocketShip and started its journey to the launch site!
Tim Graham: Does it have the Blue Origin engines on it?
United Launch Alliance: Tim Graham Yes, the BE-4 engines are already integrated on the Vulcan rocket.
Tom Dugan: Was supposed to be in 2019! What happened?
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[Satellite, I presume the building on the left in the photo was built after the Jan 2023 accessed image was taken. The drive the rockets up Red Hat Road to Mallard Fox Drive to load them.] |
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