Welcome to the Kennedy Space Center Spacecraft Fueling Service
The KSC fueling service is an efficient, flexible, and comprehensive solution that provides
Hypergolic propellant-compatible ground support equipment
Detailed operating procedures
The Spacecraft Fueling Team, a group of personnel trained and experienced in the safe and accurate loading of spacecraft propulsion systems
Customers
The service is available to NASA, NASA-funded, and other U.S government funded missions. The service may be available to domestic nongovernmental entities through a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement.
To date, the service has been provided to nine missions (see our history page)
Mission Planning and Requirements Development
The Spacecraft Fueling Team works with customers well in advance of fueling operations to develop, document, fully understand and ensure compliance with mission-specific requirements.
Flexibility and Mission-Specific Process Tailoring
The Fueling Team’s ground support equipment and procedures are versatile, accommodating varied spacecraft propulsion system configurations.
The ground support equipment is mobile and self-contained, allowing the support of processing operations at KSC, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent commercial facilities, and at other sites around the country as required.