Area 55
USA /
Florida /
Cape Canaveral /
World
/ USA
/ Florida
/ Cape Canaveral
World / United States / Florida
• Destruct installation • Erection preparation • Leak checks for Delta II
The complex was formerly named the Guided Missile Control Facility No. 1 (GMCF No. 1), but was informally known to Cape workers as the GE Guidance Center. It housed the GE guidance radar as well as the guidance computer for the early Atlas missile system.
The complex was formerly named the Guided Missile Control Facility No. 1 (GMCF No. 1), but was informally known to Cape workers as the GE Guidance Center. It housed the GE guidance radar as well as the guidance computer for the early Atlas missile system.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 28°26'52"N 80°34'54"W
- West Confined Disposal Facility 3.8 km
- Cocoa Beach& "Thousand Islands" 12 km
- Angel City 13 km
- The correct location of Pan Am Flyway. 16 km
- Emory L. Bennett Causeway 17 km
- Brevard County Correctional Instution 20 km
- Enchanted Forest Nature Sanctuary 25 km
- Imperial Estates 26 km
- Brevard County Landfill 26 km
- City of Titusville Blue Heron Water Reclamation Plant 30 km
- US Naval Facility Port Canaveral 3.9 km
- Spoil Islands 4.3 km
- Banana River 4.5 km
- Port Canaveral Water Area 4.8 km
- Port Canaveral 4.8 km
- Launch Complex 46 (Previously 43 & 45) 5.1 km
- ICBM Row (Part of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station) 5.2 km
- Cape Canaveral 7.1 km
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCAFS) 7.5 km
- Kennedy Space Center 14 km