Launch Complex 11

Overview

Systems

Other Programs

  • Project SCORE
  • Advanced Ballistic Reentry System (ABRES)

Cost: $4,358,000

Launch 11 Complex Highlights

  • 6 August 1956 – Start site preparation
  • 14 April 1957 – Air Force accepted the launch complex
  • 19 July 1958 – 1 April 1964 – Total of 33 Atlas launches
  • 19 July 1958 – 4 February 1959 – Five Atlas B launched
  • 18 December 1958 – Atlas B launched Project Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment (SCORE) was launched with President Eisenhower’s Christmas message to the world
  • 28 July 1959 – 13 October 1960 – Ten Atlas D launched
  • 13 May 1961 – 25 February 1964 – Five Atlas E launched
  • 22 November 1961 – 1 April 1964 – Thirteen Atlas F launched
  • 1 March 1963 – 1 April 1964 – Five Atlas Advanced Ballistic Reentry Systems (ABRES) launches, one Atlas E and four Atlas F
  • 13 June 1967 – Pad and service tower structures sold for salvage
  • April 2013 – Blockhouse demolished
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