Cape Canaveral Space Force Station – 3D Historic Launch Complexes
Blockhouse at Historic Launch Complex 26
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Publication Date
2022
Abstract
The Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information are using terrestrial LiDAR to document historic launch complexes at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, including the significant site of the LC 26 blockhouse. Constructed for the Redstone and Jupiter missile programs in 1956-1957, the blockhouse was only about 400 feet from the launch pads and had to be explosion proof. The walls of the blockhouse are two-feet thick, and the dome-shaped roof is from five-feet to nearly eight-feet thick. Further explosion proofing measures at the site include windows that are about one foot thick and blast doors that are made with heavy armor-like plating.
Keywords
Aerospace, AR, Museum, Space engineers, Cold War, Laser scanning, Architectural design, Space history, Animated models, Space force, Launchpads, SLD 45, Launch complex
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1 3-D Model
Recommended Citation
Center for Digital Heritage and Geospatial Information, "Blockhouse at Historic Launch Complex 26" (2022). Cape Canaveral Space Force Station – 3D Historic Launch Complexes. 28.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cdhgi_cape_canaveral_3d/28
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