Facilities
• Provides 14,000 square feet of floor space and is the nerve center of
the range.
• Includes the Launch Operations Control Center, the Tech Control Center,
the Weather Forecast Office, and office space for customers and KLC
administrators
• Launch operations are managed from the LOCC, which has sufficient
consoles to accommodate both customer personnel and AADC launch
operations staff.
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- During missions the LOCC is staffed by the customer’s team of mission specialist and their Mission Director and AADC staff including the Range Control Officer, the Range Safety Officer and others.
both secure and unsecured communications within KLC and from KLC
to the world.
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- The Tech Control Center can provide up to 200 voice nets and interfaces with the telephone, site radios, and Paging and Area Warning systems.
- Two communication backbone systems, fiber optic and copper, connect KLC facilities.
- The fiber optic system consists of 84 single mode fibers with 18 used for various facility systems such as internet, timing an count down and HVDS.
- The copper back bone consists of 200 pairs ranging from 19 AWG to 24 AWG. A SONET ring provides fiber connectivity to the rest of the world. It provides the equivalent of 56 T-1s. Secured classified communications can be provided through government certified classified systems and procedures.
whom serves as the Launch Weather officer.
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- Organic assets include a Lockheed Martin Sippican WIN9000 GPS based upper air tracking and processing system that can track up to six sondes at one time, weather radar, three field mills, two complete 10 meter tall surface weather stations, and a balloon inflation shed.
- Data gathered at KLC and aloft by sondes is augmented real time with data from open ocean buoys and web sources.
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