Spaceports, ranges and pads
Space Launch Complex 37
The Delta complex, retired with the final Delta IV Heavy flight on 9 April 2024 and now in transition to Starship. The Department of the Air Force record of decision of 20 November 2025 authorizes redevelopment, prelaunch operations and static fire tests, and states that the department will assess the Federal Aviation Administration airspace analysis and finalize a revised record of decision before any launch or landing occurs [DAF37][SFSEIS].
- 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
- 1962
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1962 · 1962: founding or first operating year of the Florida entity
- Role
- Delta pad in transition to Starship
- Cutoff status
- Announced redevelopment
- Status as of the cutoff
- Delta IV Heavy operations ended 9 April 2024. The Department of the Air Force signed a record of decision on 20 November 2025 authorizing redevelopment of the complex for Starship-Super Heavy, and the record of decision requires a revised decision after the Federal Aviation Administration airspace analysis before any launch or landing. No Starship launch from the complex is recorded at this release.
- Entity status
- announced
- Project status
- under construction or renovation
- Evidence class
- announced
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 3
- Betweenness
- 0.0057 on the full graph · 0.0029 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [SFSEIS] [DAF37] [WSLC37] [NSFSS]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- selected to redevelop ←SpaceXthe Department of the Air Force record of decision of 20 November 2025 authorizes redevelopment of the complex for Starship-Super Heavy; no lease is recorded in a public source [DAF37] [SFSEIS]2024 onward
Industrial production and service
- flies from ←2026
- flies from ←Apollo programApollo 5 flies the first lunar module from Launch Complex 37B on 22 January 1968 [NASAAP5]1968