SPACE PORT OMELEK ISLAND

Space X In an era when most technology based products follow a path of ever-increas-ing capability and reliability while si-multaneously reducing costs, launch vehicles today are little changed from those of 40 years ago. SpaceX aims to change this paradigm by develop-ing a family of launch vehicles which will ultimately reduce the cost and increase the reliability of space access by a factor of ten. Coupled with the newly emerging market for private and commercial space transport, this new model will re-ignite humanity’s efforts to explore and develop Space.

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Omelek Island

Is part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. It is controlled by the United States military under a long-term lease (along with ten other islands in the atoll) and is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site. Kwajalein is one of the world’s largest coral atolls as measured by area of enclosed water. Comprising 97 islets, it has a land area of 16.4 km², and surrounds one of the largest lagoons in the world, with an

Space X Site

area of 2174 km². Omelek Uninhab-ited, leased by the US military. Site of SpaceX launch facility. Little Bustard (Marshallese “Drebubbu”) is the first island north of Kwajalein on the East reef. During low tide and with protec-tive boots, it is possible to wade across the reef between Kwajalein and Little Bustard

Omelek has long been used by the United States for small research rocket

launches due to its relative isolation in the South Pacific. The last US govern-ment rocket launch occurred in 1996. More recently, the island’s equatorial proximity and nearby radar tracking infrastructure has attracted SpaceX, an orbital launch provider, which recently updated facilities on the island, as well as establishing the island as their pri-mary launch location. In early 2006, an attempt to launch SpaceX’s experi-mental low-cost rocket Falcon 1 from

Geography

The Island is located at and is about 32,000 square meters (8 acres) in size. Geologically, it is composed of reef-rock, as are the other islands in the atoll, which is created by the accu-mulation of marine organism remnants (corals, mollusks, etc.)n the US environmental assessment review, released October 25, the Fed-eral Aviation Agency issued a Find-ing of No Significant Impact (FONSI). An analysis of the proposed launches concluded that there are no significant short-term or long-term effects to the environment or surrounding popula-tions of Kwajalein.

Omelek has been developed solely as a launch support facility and there are no inhabited islands within 21 kilome-ters (13 miles) of the site.

According to the notice, Falcon 1 launch vehicle will reach supersonic speeds at an altitude of approximately eight kilometers (five miles) over the open ocean. The resultant sonic boom will not adversely impact any surround-ing USAKA islands.

People

A staff of about 25 flight controllers and engineers will watch the space shot from a control center on Kwajalein Atoll, though the rocket’s launch pad sits on Omelek Island.

The launch control center is located on Kwajalein Island along with guest offic-es for our customers. The main island also has hotels, shops, a cafeteria and sports facilities.

Describing the benefits of the Kwaja-lein location, Musk said, "For potential customers out there, I should mention that Kwajalein has some of the world’s best scuba diving and snorkeling! It is literally a tropical paradise."

"I think I can say with confidence that we've left no stone unturned," Musk said in his press conference last week before leaving for the Kwajalein.

Breakwater

Provides mooring for:1Offshore breakwaters, also called bulkheads, reduce the intensity of wave action in inshore waters and

F1 Falcon Facility

Payload Processing:1 The services and equipent provided for satelite processing in the clean room area are shown in table 4-1 space craft limitations for the process-ing facility require no mono or biporpel-lants be board. SpaceX baselines a 1000,000 class celan room facility for payload processing. Hangar on Om-elek houses the Payload processing facility (ppf).

RP-1

(Rocket Propellant-1) is a highly re-fined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel. Although having a lower specific impulse than liquid hy-drogen (LH2) and thus less thrust per unit mass, RP-1 is cheaper, can be stored at room temperature, is far less

Features on site

Quay

Provides mooring for:1) Landing craft type vessels deliver-ing Falcon 1s and other equipment and supplies.2) LOX tankers, which unload via a pipeline along the quay direct to the storage tanks adjacent to the launch pad.

Offices1 Near the PPF, a customer office area will be provided that contains desks, office chairs, one class A telephone line,and high speed internet connectivity. Fax service is also available. Portable units will supply sanitation needs forboth SpaceX and payload support per-sonnel at the launch pad. Payload sup-port personnel are welcome to sharesmall amounts of refrigerator space, coffee machines, microwaves, and other conveniences that may be avail-able.

thereby reduce coastal erosion. They are constructed some distance away from the coast or built with one end linked to the coast. The breakwaters may be small structures, placed one to three hundred feet offshore in relatively shallow water, designed to protect a gently sloping beach. Breakwater con-struction is usually parallel or perpen-dicular to the coast to maintain tran-quility condition in the port.Breakwaters are subject to damage, and overtopping by big storms can lead to problems of drainage of water that gets behind them. The wall also serves to encourage erosion of beach deposits from the foot of the wall and can increase longshore sediment transport Most of Breakwater construc-tion depends upon wave approach and considering some other environmental parametersWhen oncoming waves hit these breakwaters, their erosive power is concentrated on these structures some distance away from the coast. In this way, there is an area of slack water behind the breakwaters. Deposition occurring in these waters and beaches

Kwajalein’s location gives it a tropical marine climate. The atoll experiences a relatively dry windy season from mid-Decem-ber to mid-May and a relatively wet calm (wind) season from mid-May to mid-November. Normal annual rainfall is approxi-mately 100 inches; approximately 72% of the annual rainfall occurs during the wet season and 28% occurs during the dry season. On average, the prevailing wind direction is from the east-northeast during the entire year, although, winds may become more variable during the wet season, when occasional southerly or even westerly winds occur. Average wind speed is near 17 mph from December to April and near 12 mph from May to November.

The average daily maximum temperature is 86.5ºF; the average minimum is 77.6ºF. The extreme temperatures are 97ºF and 68ºF. Average relative humidity ranges from 83% at local noon to 78% at midnight.

Although most of the rainfall at Kwajalein comes from showers, thunderstorms are infrequent. On average, thunderstorms occur fewer than 12 days each year. The frequency of thunderstorms ranges from 0.1 per month from January to March to 2.0 per month in September. During the modern era of record keeping, since 1919, a fully developed typhoon has never struck Kwajalein Atoll; however, tropical storms (sustained winds of 40 to 74 mph) impact the atoll about once every four to

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Journey: ducts/ventilation,port,helipad,launch pad

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