2nd Lt Evangeline Borngesser and SSgt Joshua Hunt, 2nd Space Launch Squadron, describe the renovation activities at Space launch Complex 8, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<br /><br />Designed to improve an underutilized resource with up-to-date launch pad surfaces, electrical, and communications equipment, the new SLC-8 will provide commercial and government space lift providers a new and easily transformable site for test and development.<br /><br />The updates to the launch complex allow the launch of liquid fueled rockets in addition to the solid fueled rockets that have historically been launched from the site.<br /><br />Finally, SLC-8 communication infrastructure is in the midst of an update. Soon high-definition video and high-speed data will connect launch complex to launch and safety control facilities on north Vandenberg Air Force Base.<br /><br />
