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crawler-transporter

NASA rocket transport vehicle
Class type of: tracked vehicle, oversize load Q94712

Facts

22 properties

Designation

Instance of
vehicle model
Heritage designation
National Register of Historic Places listed place, Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark[18][19]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Location
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 28.589°, -80.655°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Brevard County[2]

Period and style

Inception
1965[13]
Height
+6.1, +7.9[22][23]
Significant event
science project, adoption, bidding, contract awarding, construction, construction, testing, service entry, service entry[14][15][16]
More facts +13
Owned by
National Aeronautics and Space Administration[4]
Subclass of
tracked vehicle, oversize load[8][9]
Capital cost
+14000000[32]
Country of origin
United States[10]
Designed to carry
Mobile Launcher Platform, Mobile Launcher[33][34]
Length
+40, +131[20][21]
Manufacturer
Marion Power Shovel Company[6]
Mass
3.0M (2.7M–3.0M, n=3)[29][30][31]
Operator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration[5]
Powered by
ALCO 251, Cummins QSK-95[11][12]
Speed
1.6 (1.34–3.2, n=3)[26][27][28]
Total produced
+2[17]
Width
+34.75, +114[24][25]
🏷️ Also known as
en Missile Crawler Transporter Facility en crawler transporter en crawler-transporter en Franz en Hans en Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities ar كراولر ترانسبورتر es Transporte de orugas fr engin de transport crawler he זחלן טרנספורטר hu hernyótalpas szállítójármű ja クローラー・トランスポーター pt Transportador de esteira rolante ru Crawler-transporter ru Гусеничный транспортёр ru Гусеничный транспортёр НАСА uk Гусеничні транспортери НАСА zh 航天飞机运输车 zh-hant 航天飛機運輸車
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Crawler-transporter 2 moves to CT Park Site West (KSC-2013-1509).jpg ↗
ArchINFORM project ID
43950
Described at URL
www.nasa.gov, www.nasa.gov
Freebase ID
/m/04n8zm
NRHP reference number
99001643

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🔗 Connections
Significant event 4
construction, construction, bidding, science project
Subclass of 2
oversize load, tracked vehicle
Country 1
United States
Country of origin 1
United States
Designed to carry 1
Mobile Launcher Platform
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Brevard County
Location 1
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
Manufacturer 1
Marion Power Shovel Company
Operator 1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Owned by 1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
← Kunstenpunt Knowledge Graph ID 1
Fred Ebb
← Vehicle normally used 1
Mobile Launcher Platform
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Summary

crawler-transporter is a vehicle model[1].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . environmental.ksc.nasa.gov. environmental.ksc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . hq.nasa.gov. hq.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . thisdayinaviation.com. thisdayinaviation.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . thisdayinaviation.com. thisdayinaviation.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . spaceline.org. spaceline.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . environmental.ksc.nasa.gov. environmental.ksc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . environmental.ksc.nasa.gov. environmental.ksc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved . environmental.ksc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . asme.org. asme.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . hq.nasa.gov. hq.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . wnyc.org. wnyc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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    Subclass of → tracked vehicle, oversize load
    Capital cost → {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+14000000'}
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