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Facilities
   
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Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories.
    Launch Pad 2 (Sub-orbital Pad)

• Used to launch sub-orbital missions.

• Located about 400 feet west of LSS and about 100 feet east of IPF.

• Sub-orbital missile build and payload integration performed indoors
  in SCAT.

• Sub-orbital missile moved to LP2 indoors in the SCAT for erection
  and checkout.

• Accommodates customer supplied launch stools, and capable
  of launching:
    - Strategic Target System A3 derivative rockets.
    - Targets and sensors boosted by single and multi-stage
      combinations of Minuteman second and third stage rockets.
    - Commercial Castor IV class boosters.
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