This vehicle will be using a human rated Atlas V launch vehicle, currently set to launch from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral. In addition to the October announcement, Boeing announced it would be locating its Commercial Crew Program headquarters at the world famous spaceport.īoeing have made good progress through their CCDev-2 (Commercial Crew) contract milestones – worth over $92m – centered around their CST-100 capsule, a vehicle configurable to carry up to seven crew/passengers or an equivalent combination of passengers and pressurized cargo to LEO destinations, including the International Space Station.īased on their early progress via CCDev-2, NASA opted to select the spacecraft as one of their three Commercial Crew integrated Capability (CCiCap) award winners last month, tasking Boeing with 19 milestones for their $460m funding, culminating in an integrated critical design review milestone, along with significant propulsion system, avionics, and wind tunnel development and testing. This agreement then allowed Space Florida to lease OPF-3 to the Boeing Company to manufacture and test the company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) spacecraft, creating up to 550 jobs along the Space Coast. The deal between NASA and Space Florida included the use and modification of OPF-3, the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Processing Facility and Processing Control Center (PCC).
The start date for the conversion of OPF-3 follows the announcement last October of a 15 year lease deal, agreed between NASA and Space Florida – the State’s aerospace economic development agency. The conversion is expected to take a year, as the OPF changes call signs to the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF).
The removal of work stands in Orbiter Processing Facility -3 (OPF-3) will begin next week, as the former home to Shuttle orbiters is converted into the new processing facility for Boeing’s future crewed spacecraft, CST-100.
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