SpaceX has shown its hangar for storing Falcon 9 rockets that have returned from space

Photo: SpaceX

This month, SpaceX again managed to land the Falcon 9 booster stage on an offshore platform. The rocket successfully launched a Japanese communications satellite JCSAT 14 weighing 5 tons into orbit 35405 km above the Earth’s surface, and the first stage of the carrier was returned intact. At the moment this is the third Falcon 9 that has returned, and, like the two previous ones (December and April), has been sent for storage at the space port on Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX stores all the steps here at Launch Complex 39A, a spaceport at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The company rents a launch complex from NASA. In a huge hangar 39A can simultaneously store up to 5 objects equal in size to the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket. But with such a pace, the hangar can be filled in the next few months.

Mask was already worried about this:
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Need to increase size hangar

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2016

There are three options for resolving insufficient space for storing rocket stages: increasing the size of the hangar, building a new one, sending rockets to MacGregor, Texas, where the company has its own test facility. The last option is the least practical, because to launch a rocket will have to be transported back, and this is expensive and long.

But let's leave the Mask to solve this problem, and see for yourself the current hangar with all the steps stored inside. Photos posted by the company itself in your Flickr-account .