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Launch Facility Support Building

Located adjacent to the missile launcher on the southeast is the 1963 LF support building, which contains an array of mechanical, electrical, and environmental equipment. This box-like underground structure has its roof about one foot above ground level. Constructed entirely of reinforced concrete, the building is rectangular in plan, measuring roughly sixteen feet wide, twenty-five feet long, and eleven feet deep.

The support building contains electrical distribution equipment; a diesel-fueled emergency generator that supplied electrical power when the commercial source was unavailable; a brine chiller unit that provided cold water to the launch equipment room air handler, which in turn, provided the electronic racks and launcher with temperature and humidity-controlled air; a hydraulic pump for the personnel access hatch; a temperature control air compressor; and various panels for mechanical, security, and communications systems.