Launch Complex 36 is a launch complex located at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Located south of the Missile Row launch range, the complex originally consisted of two pads—designat
LC-36A in April 2026, during the launch of a New Glenn rocket
An Atlas-Centaur at LC-36A prior to the launch of Pioneer 10.
An Atlas III launches from LC-36B.
The MSS of Launch Complex 36A falls to the ground after critical supports are destroyed in a controlled explosion.
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The Atlas-Centaur was a United States expendable launch vehicle derived from the SM-65 Atlas D missile. The vehicle featured a Centaur upper stage, the first such stage to use high-performance liquid
Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
…equipped with a Centaur upper stage. From the 1960s to the 1980s, LC-36 was used by NASA and the United States Air Force to launch many payloads from the Atlas-Centaur and its derivatives, including the Pioneer, Surveyor, and Mariner probes. During the late 1980s, LC-36B was also used to launch the Atlas G, and General…
An Atlas-Centaur launching Surveyor 1 (1966)
A Centaur stage during assembly at General Dynamics in 1962
Diagram of a Centaur stage
Technicians readying booster 104D for erection