Launch Control Center
The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Building
- Description: facility for controlling rocket launches at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA
- Also known as: “LCC” and “Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kennedy Space Center and Vehicle Assembly Building.
Kennedy Space Center
Photo: Max Siegmayer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kennedy Space Center is a spaceport in Florida, situated west of Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island, and is part of a region known as the "Space Coast", since all of the crewed United States spacecraft are launched from the Space Coast.
Vehicle Assembly Building
Hangar
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, designed to assemble large pre-manufactured space vehicle components, such as the massive Saturn V, the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, and stack them vertically onto one of three mobile launcher platforms used by NASA. Vehicle Assembly Building is situated 590 feet west of Launch Control Center.
Reusable Launch Vehicle Hangar
Hangar
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Reusable Launch Vehicle Hangar is situated 2 miles northwest of Launch Control Center.
Launch Control Center
- Categories: mission control center and government building
- Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.5853° or 28° 35′ 7″ northLongitude
-80.64921° or 80° 38′ 57″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Height
98 feet (30 metres)Open location code
76WXH9P2+48OpenStreetMap ID
way 37428230OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesGeoNames ID
4161656Wikidata ID
Q3218640
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Launch Control Center” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مركز تحكم الإطلاق”
- Chinese: “發射控制中心”
- Dutch: “Launch Control Center”
- French: “Launch Control Center”
- Hindi: “लॉन्च नियंत्रण केंद्र”
- Indonesian: “Launch Control Center”
- Italian: “Launch Control Center”
- Japanese: “打ち上げ管制センター”
- Japanese: “発射コントロールセンター”
- Japanese: “発射管制センター”
- Slovenian: “LCC”
- Slovenian: “Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center”
- Spanish: “CCL”
- Spanish: “Centro de Control de Lanzamientos”
- Spanish: “LCC”
- Swedish: “Launch Control Center”
- Ukrainian: “Центр керування польотами Рокко Петрона”
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