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As of June 2017SpaceX uses two leased orbital launch sites: Launch Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Space Launch Complex 4E of the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Their prior launch pad Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was damaged in the Amos-6 accident in September 2016, but is expected to be operational again in August 2017. SpaceX is also building a commercial-only launch facility at the Boca Chica site near Brownsville, Texas, expected to be operational no earlier than late 2018.

In addition, SpaceX uses a suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in Texas. A high-altitude suborbital test facility was under construction in New Mexico but was abandoned following the switch to flight tests on commercial missions.

SpaceX has indicated that they see a niche for each of the four orbital facilities currently in use or under construction, and that they have sufficient launch business to fill each pad, particularly so by the end of the decade if SpaceX business remains strong.

SpaceX operates three active launch facilities, one at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) (currently being repaired after the AMOS-6 pad explosion), one at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), and a third at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). A fourth launch site is under construction (as of 2017) at Boca Chica Village, Texas. SpaceX believes that they can optimize their launch operations, and reduce launch costs, by dividing their launch missions amongst these four launch facilities: KSC for NASA work, CCAFS for USAF national security launches, VAFB for polar launches, and Boca Chica for commercial launches.


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