Abstract: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Natural Environments Branch (EV44) provides atmospheric databases and analysis in support of space vehicle design and day-of-launch operations for NASA and commercial launch vehicle programs launching from the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), co-located on the United States Air Force’s Eastern Range (ER) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The ER complex is one of the most heavily instrumented …