Breaking ground today on our new Payload Processing Facility on the Eastern Range - the first ever built to support an 8.7‑meter fairing. Thank you to Space Systems Command, United States Space Force, and Space Launch Delta 45 for the partnership. At 120,000 square feet, the PPF will house... four payload processing bays, two encapsulation bays, and a multi‑manifest area supporting National Security Space Launch, civil, and commercial missions. This facility expands our Space Coast footprint across Brevard and Orange Counties and supports continued job growth alongside our more than 4,500 employees in the region.show more

@_MaxQ_ @USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Looks great along with all of your facilities … how are your return to flight efforts progressing?

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Keep it up guys! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Great partnership & nice digs! Let's go @blueorigin !

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 That probably should be building more launch pads. Obviously one isn't strategically smart.

It is not enough. You guys need to do MORE or your company will be dwarfed by SpaceX's capabilities.... To be clear, i LOVE Blue Origin and will root for them, and any other company trying to advance the human race, but we need to have realistic expectations out of our choices.

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Great render of Blue's future to launch once a week

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 First ever built to support an 8.7m fairing. That is AWESOME!

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Sweet facility...

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Congratulations

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Well done blue spacex aren't the only ones that can get business

@NASASpaceflight @USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 So you are officially a government contractor now with some side business from those who don’t want to use SpaceX? I’m not knocking it. It’s a viable business path, with less concern about competition. Just a little niche.

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Looking forward to seeing this support both New Glenn 7×2 and the 9×4.

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Very interesting. Now if you could actually launch it and put the payload into the right orbit, that would be awesome.

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Please do not try to patent Payloads, or Fairings or the measurement in meters. Thank you.

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 All this is fine and dandy but show us real launches not just AI generated ground breakings.

@blueorigin @USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Sigh. Can you please just launch a rocket?

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 When will be completed all? When you will be able to launch again? It’s time to give major info!

@NASASpaceflight @USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Do u have a date for the first launch?

@julia_bergeron @USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Is this the new construction at SLC18?

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Looks good. You are going to need it with all those payloads headed up there and also for integrating the blue moon lunar land or onto the rocket so it could be taken to the moon.

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Lex Bezzos should just stick to printing bird cage liner.

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@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Breaking ground today, so if everything goes right, when is estimated completion?

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 How tall are those bay doors? Can you talk about the design intent at all?

The rockets get the attention, but infrastructure like this is what really begins turning access to space into an industry. Payload processing. Manufacturing. Logistics. Launch. And eventually an entire supply chain extending beyond Earth. It's a big part of the future I've been imagining in Band on the Run: at some point, reaching space becomes only the beginning. Then we have to build everything that comes next. 🚀

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Impressive !

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Lots of fun comments about the rocket, but the building is the interesting story. Payload processing is a cap on annual missions. A Space Force co-funded facility open to multiple providers with additional capacity of up to 16 missions a year addresses an actual constraint.

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Chonky boy payloads. The best payloads

@NASASpaceflight @USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 They saw SpaceX and said, “Look, we have a game too.”

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 AI rendering. How is the Govt going to be paying for all these?

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 ... Reflective metallic blue feather..(not the kind of reflective properties that would blind a pilot in the sky)..obviously... But a glimmer that would catch notice. I enjoyed the simplicity of it but if we're going to be simple, make the feather a little more glamorous. 👌🤌♥️

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 👏👏👏👍

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 Now if you could only make it to space 😂

@USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 What's going on with the development of a reusable second stage? Is it possible or is it no longer relevant?

@blueorigin @USSF_SSC @USSpaceForce @SLDelta45 This is a tremendous increase in the payload capacity for launch fairings