Dessert Launch Site
 | Available only with the Making History Expansion installed. |
| Dessert Launch Site | ||
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| Location |  Kerbin
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 Deserts
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| Coordinates Map |
6° 33′ 37″ S | |
| 143° 57′ 0″ W | ||
| Altitude | 824 m | |
| Since version | 1.4.3 | |
The Dessert launch site is a new site added in version 1.2 the Making History expansion, and arguably the 5th spaceport on Kerbin. It is situated at a modestly southern (-6° latitude) plain, to provide additional variety and challenge for missions. The Dessert Airfield is directly adjacent.
Buildings
The site is substantially better equipped than Woomerang, containing both a launch pad, and an airfield with a roughly 1.75 km long runway. Support buildings (eg: hangers, fuel tanks) are nearby. The pad and airfield count as additional biomes, separate from all previous ones. A relay station seems to be on the pad if one launches from there, but the kerbnet connection from the runway goes to Baikerbanur, some 248 km away.
Launching from Desert
You can only launch from Desert if you enable Allow other Launchsites in the Difficulty Settings. When enabled you can launch a rocket from the VAB via the dropdown menu under the Launch button. When you hover over it, a menu appears with available launch sites. Select the arrow next to Dessert Launch Site to launch from there.
 
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Trivia
Dessert is likely a pun on the similarity of the word with desert, and a reference to those delicious snacks that kerbals sometimes crave.
