Spaceports, ranges and pads
Launch Complex 36
The Atlas Centaur complex from 1962 [NSFLC36], rebuilt by Blue Origin and completed in 2021 to carry the New Glenn pad, vehicle integration, first stage refurbishment, propellant facilities and the environmental control center, nine miles of road, 360 acres and a 90 acre launch pad [FAANG][MDIVE].
- Entity type
- launch complex
- Kind
- facility, site or pad
- Lane
- Spaceports, ranges and pads
- Place
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1963
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1963 · 1963: Atlas Centaur flies from Launch Complex 36 (1963)
- Role
- Blue Origin New Glenn pad
- Cutoff status
- Under repair
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating infrastructure, temporarily unavailable and under repair at the cutoff. A New Glenn static fire explosion on 28 May 2026 destroyed the vehicle and the transporter erector and damaged the complex; the main launch tower remains. Blue Origin targets a return to flight before the end of 2026. No launch from the complex is recorded between the explosion and the cutoff.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- under repair after the 28 May 2026 explosion
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Operational status
- under repair; no launch recorded between 28 May 2026 and the cutoff
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 4
- Betweenness
- 0.0448 on the full graph · 0.0043 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [FAANG] [MDIVE] [WLC36] [OSLC36] [NSFLC36] [NTRSRL10]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- operates complex ←Blue OriginBlue Origin rebuilds and operates the Cape complex, completed 2021 at a reported cost above $1 billion, under an FAA vehicle operator license for New Glenn launches there; under repair at the cutoff [FAANG] [MDIVE]2015 onward
Public finance and investment
- funds ←2015 onward
Industrial production and service
- flies from ←New Glennthe vehicle is licensed to fly from the complex and flies three times from it, on 16 January 2025, 13 November 2025 and 19 April 2026, as recorded in the Blue Origin mission record; the vehicle prepared for the fourth flight is destroyed in a static fire explosion at the complex on 28 May 2026, and launches are suspended at the cutoff while the complex is repaired [BONG3] [FAANG] [NSENG3]2025 onward
- flies from ←Atlas Centaurthe first successful Atlas Centaur flies from LC-36A on 27 November 1963 [NSFLC36] [NTRSRL10]1963