In 2011, the company announced plans to upgrade the facility for launch testing a VTVL rocket,[13] and then constructed a half-acre concrete launch facility in 2012 to support the Grasshopper test flight program.[14] as of october 2012, the McGregor facility had seven test stands that are operated "18 hours a day, six days a week"[15] and is building more test stands because production is ramping up and the company has a large manifest in the next several years.