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Technical Capabilities

The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) workforce offers a full range of technical support for developing, processing and launching flight hardware and payloads, with the potential application of these services to a wide range of other commercial and academic endeavors. 

This support includes expertise in design, assembly, processing, testing, transport and handling, integration, launch and recovery for human, expendable and reusable spacecraft.  The services required for these complex operations are diverse and broad, and include everything from: modeling and simulations for command and control systems; to biological and chemical analyses; to mishap investigations.

Explore the links below for an overview of the full range of technical expertise, and contact us to discuss how the KSC team can partner with you. To view the KSC Technical Capabilities Document CLICK HERE.

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Technical Capabilities at KSC

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The ISRU Pilot Excavator digs its way through the regolith bin during testing inside Swamp Works at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Swamp Works

Swamp Works is a hands-on, lean development environment for innovation at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

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Testing and Laboratories

Kennedy Space Center has a full suite of laboratories and test facilities to assist tenants of the multi-user spaceport.

Technicians process the Sentinel-6B spacecraft at the the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025.

Payload Processing

Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Payload Processing teams have decades of experience supporting NASA and commercial partners in all aspects of preparing and launching payloads into space.