In preparation for the upcoming transition to repair work at a shipyard, the team goes about organizing logistics, schedules and deadlines, completing projects and storing equipment, as needed. Here, workers move the launch vehicle lifting beams from the hangar of the Launch Platform to an onsite warehouse at Home Port. The beams are the yellow brackets that are lowered on cables from the hangar and attached to the 1st and second stages of the rocket, enabling the lifting operation that occurs during rocket transfer, from the assembly hall on the ship to the hangar on the platform.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Sea Launch photos
by Paula Korn)

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