page_title: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0
hierarchical_section_title: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Launch Pad 0
caption_attribution_description: English: The Wallops Island Atlantic coast showing both the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS)--State of Virginia--in the foreground and the Wallops Flight Facility--US Federal government, NASA--in the background. Documents the newly restored and widened beachfront in anticipation of increased launch traffic at MARS after 2012. Launch pad 0A, used by Antares, is second from the near end, next to the tall water tower. Note: The land on which MARS sits was formerly, prior to 2003, a part of the WFF.
context_page_description: Launch Pad 0, Pad 0 or LP-0, also known as Launch Complex 0, Launch Area 0 or LA-0, is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia in the United States. MARS is located adjacent to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, which ran the launch complex until 2003. WFF continues to provide various support services to MARS launches under contract with the Commonwealth of Virginia.
  The launch complex consists of three individual launch pads, LP-0A, LP-0B, and Launch Complex-2.
context_section_description: Launch Pad 0, Pad 0 or LP-0, also known as Launch Complex 0,  Launch Area 0 or LA-0, is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia in the United States. MARS is located adjacent to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), which ran the launch complex until 2003. WFF continues to provide various support services to MARS launches under contract with the Commonwealth of Virginia.
  The launch complex consists of three individual launch pads, LP-0A, LP-0B, and Launch Complex-2.
caption: The LP-0B (left) and LP-0A (center, with the large water tower).
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