Images: Bechtel lifts section of new Kennedy Space Center launch tower into place

Neil Gerrard Senior Editor, Construction Briefing

07 January 2025

Mod 4 is lifted by a CC8800 Demag crane during Rig and Set at the Mobile Launcher 2 Parksite. Mod 4 is lifted by a CC8800 Demag crane during Rig and Set at the Mobile Launcher 2 Parksite. (Image courtesy of Bechtel)

US-based construction contractor Bechtel has overseen the lifting into place of the first module for a new launch tower at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

The lifting and placing of Tower Module 4 of Mobile Launcher 2 was completed using the rig and set process.

Bechtel said it marked the start of a new phase of rapid vertical installation of the remaining tower modules, which will be stacked successively on top of one another in…

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