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OmegA Launch Tower to be demolished as KSC 39B fails to become a multi-user pad – NASASpaceflight.com

Following the cancellation of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA rocket, work to demolish the vehicle’s launch tower…

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Following the cancellation of Northrop Grumman’s OmegA rocket, work to demolish the vehicle’s launch tower on a repurposed former Shuttle program Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) will mark the erasure of the program from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). It was hoped OmegA would allow the “clean pad” at 39B to fall under the assigned mandate of a ‘Multi-User Spaceport’. Instead, 39B will now only see a maximum of one SLS launch per year.OmegA’s short life ended when Northrop Grumman lost out on the Na…

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