Launch Control Center

The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center is a four-story building at NASA's on , used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.
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  • Building
  • …lies at an elevation of 3 feet (1 metre)
  • …stands 98 feet (30 metres) tall
  • Description: facility for controlling rocket launches at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA
  • Also known as
    “LCC”
    “Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kennedy Space Center and Vehicle Assembly Building.
Max Siegmayer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a spaceport in , west of on .
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Hangar
The , or VAB, is a large… is situated 590 feet west of Launch Control Center.
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Hangar
is situated 2 miles northwest of Launch Control Center.

Launch Control Center

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Latitude
28.5853° or 28° 35′ 7″ north
Longitude
-80.64921° or 80° 38′ 57″ west
Open location code
76WXH9P2+48
Open­Street­Map ID
way 37428230
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Geo­Names ID
4161656
Wiki­data ID
Q3218640

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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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