Space Systems Processing Facility

The Space Systems Processing Facility, originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center for the manufacture and processing of flight hardware, modules, structural components and solar arrays of the International Space Station, and future space stations and commercial spacecraft.

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

Type: Building
Description: facility at Kennedy Space Center used for the manufacture and processing of space hardwares
Also known as: “Space Station Processing Facility” and “SSPF”
Address: M7-360

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Operations and Checkout Building and Multi-Payload Processing Facility.

Operations and Checkout Building

Building

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building is a historic building on Merritt Island, Florida, United States. The five-story structure is in the Industrial Area of NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Operations and Checkout Building is situated 1,300 feet west of Space Systems Processing Facility.

Multi-Payload Processing Facility

Building

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Multi-Payload Processing Facility is a facility at Kennedy Space Center constructed by NASA in either 1994 or 1995 and used for spacecraft and payload processing. Multi-Payload Processing Facility is situated 4,000 feet southwest of Space Systems Processing Facility.

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Theme park

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The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. It features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia, shows, two IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is situated 2½ miles west of Space Systems Processing Facility.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Courtenay.

Courtenay

Locality

Courtenay is an unincorporated community on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Courtenay is situated 6 miles southwest of Space Systems Processing Facility.

Space Systems Processing Facility

Categories: industrial building and production facility
Location: Brevard, Florida, United States, North America
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Latitude

28.52385° or 28° 31′ 26″ north

Longitude

-80.64216° or 80° 38′ 32″ west

Open location code

76WXG9F5+G4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 168788704

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

Wikidata ID

Q7572508

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In Other Languages

From Italian to Spanish—“Space Systems Processing Facility” goes by many names.

Italian: “Space Station Processing Facility”
Japanese: “宇宙ステーション整備施設”
Spanish: “Instalaciones de procesamiento de la estacion espacial”
Spanish: “Instalaciones de procesamiento de la estación espacial”
Spanish: “Space Station Processing Facility”
“Space Systems Processing Facility”

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