Hmm at a minimum they will need to blow out the back wall to the integration hall and add a door. However if they just plan on using that space for one core at a time the crane could be external.
"We are pleased to have been granted temporary use of this facility to give us time to evaluate the building's suitability to support SpaceX’s business in Florida on a longer-term basis,” SpaceX spokesman John Taylor said.
Port Commissioner Bruce Deardoff said he expects the lease agreement with SpaceX to also include resolving concerns SpaceX recently raised related to a proposed $15,000 fee each time a 30-ton rocket booster returns there.
The Hawthorne, Calif.-based firm may take up space inside a 52,000-square-foot building in Port Canaveral as soon as September, reports Florida Today. The company also plans to develop a second building adjacent that site. The buildings would function as a site to process and refurbish SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets.
Quote from: JBF on 08/26/2016 01:17 pmHmm at a minimum they will need to blow out the back wall to the integration hall and add a door. However if they just plan on using that space for one core at a time the crane could be external.https://goo.gl/maps/gFpz1gmRGpxNo real approach from the west with a long first stage
SpaceX plans to move into the 52,000-square-foot former Spacehab building through a temporary property-use permit between the company and the port.
I understand the jist of this conversation is access to the SpaceHab building doors, but I also wonder about getting the boosters off of Highway 401 and into the facility. Without measuring the booster transporters turning radius I am only guessing that it would not make the south bound turn off of 401 onto Grouper Road (or Payne Way if Magellan Road was finished to the east of SpaceHab.But as I type this I wonder if the booster transporter has independent steering on the various axles? That would solve any possible problems.Sorry: just more questions, and no answers.
Quote from: hms hexapuma on 08/27/2016 07:16 amI understand the jist of this conversation is access to the SpaceHab building doors, but I also wonder about getting the boosters off of Highway 401 and into the facility. Without measuring the booster transporters turning radius I am only guessing that it would not make the south bound turn off of 401 onto Grouper Road (or Payne Way if Magellan Road was finished to the east of SpaceHab.But as I type this I wonder if the booster transporter has independent steering on the various axles? That would solve any possible problems.Sorry: just more questions, and no answers.They have independent steering, don't think they would be going much of anywhere otherwise. I doubt the exit from from 401 would be a problem in this case since the talk has been about the recovered boosters that start out on Grouper Road... My guess is that they are already navigating this corner but in the other direction to get to the Cape.
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1.The building doesn't look too useful as is. I suppose they would have to take out the wall between the Integration Hall and the Integration Hall Extension, made a new large garage door opening to the outside of the Integration Hall 2.Extension and extended the crane from the Integration Hall Extension through to the far end of the Integration Hall, it could be made to work. 3.Still going to be difficult to maneuver the truck/stage into there.
Is anything stopping SpaceX from tearing the whole thing down and building a new building?