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Rockets don’t just take off somewhere and then land again. Instead, there are fixed locations. Here you can find a list that tells you where they are.

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Mission Landing Boosters

Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)

Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, also known as LZ-1 and LZ-2 respectively, are landing facilities on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for recovering components of SpaceX’s VTVL reusable launch vehicles.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Mission Landing Boosters

Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2)

Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, also known as LZ-1 and LZ-2 respectively, are landing facilities on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for recovering components of SpaceX’s VTVL reusable launch vehicles.

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Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4)

SpaceX signed a five-year lease of Launch Complex 4W in February 2015, in order to use the area to land reusable launch vehicles at the pad. The location is being used for vertical landing of Return-To-Launch-Site (RTLS) first-stage boosters of the Falcon 9 rockets that are launched from the adjacent SLC-4E launch pad. This novel use of SLC-4W had initially surfaced in July 2014 […]

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Space Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center Florida, USA

Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39’s two launch pads, located at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.

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The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 10:36 a.m. EST. On its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station, Dragon will bring up supplies, equipment and new science experiments for technology research. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will deliver about 4,800 pounds of cargo and material to support science investigations aboard the space station.

Space Launch Complex 40, Kennedy Space Center Florida, USA

Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), previously Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) is a launch pad for rockets located at the north end of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.

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