SpaceX showed its hangar for storage space returned from the Falcon 9 rocket stages

Photo: SpaceX

This month, the company SpaceX again managed to land-stage rocket Falcon 9 on an offshore platform. The rocket successfully launched a Japanese communications satellite JCSAT 14 weighing 5 tons into orbit 35405 kilometers above the Earth's surface, and the first stage of the carrier was returned intact. At the moment, this is the third step of returning the Falcon 9, and it, like the previous two (the December and April), sent for storage to the spaceport at Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX holds all the stages here at Launch Complex 39A, the spaceport at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The Company leases the launch complex at NASA. The huge hangar 39A can simultaneously store up to 5 objects that are equal in size the first stage of the rocket Falcon 9. But with the pace hangar can be filled already in the next few months.

Musk is already worried about this:

May need to increase size of rocket storage hangar- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2016
 There are three ways to resolve insufficient amount of free storage space rocket stages: an increase in the size of the hangar, the construction of a new, sending missiles in McGregor, Texas, where the company has its own testing facility. The last option is the least practical, since launching the rocket will have to transport back, but it is expensive and long.

But let's leave the mask solution to this problem, but do look at the current hangar with all stored inside steps. Photos posted by the company in its Flickr-account.









Source: geektimes.ru/post/275836/