Spaceports Spaceports Anhueng is a launch site for sounding rockets in South Korea, located at 36°25' northern latitude and 126°06' eastern length. Anhueng has been in use since 1993. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anhueng"
The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the world's oldest and largest working space launch facility. It was originally built by the Soviets and is now under Russian regulation, although located in Kazakhstan. It is situated about 200 km to the east of the Aral Sea, on the north bank of the Syr Darya, near the town of Tyuratam, in the south-central part of the country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baikonur Cosmodrome"
The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is the East Coast launch facility of the United States Department of Defense. Located on Cape Canaveral in the State of Florida, it depends on Patrick Air Force Base, home of the 45th Space Wing. Cape Canaveral AFS is adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cape Canaveral Air Force Station"
The Guiana Space Centre ( French: Centre Spatial Guyanais) is a French/ European spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Operational since 1968, it is particularly suitable as a location for a spaceport due to its proximity to the equator, and the fact that launches in the favourable direction are over water. The European Space Agency, the French space agency CNES as well as the commercial Arianespace company launch their satellites from Kourou. ...more on Wikipedia about "Centre Spatial Guyanais"
In 1986 and 1987, in order to make way for the construction of the center, 312 families were uprooted from the farming and fishing villages on the coast that the Center now occupies. They were relocated to 7 government build agricultural villages, or agrovilas, where they suffer from their distance from the sea and crowding into small agricultural plots. ...more on Wikipedia about "Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara"
Hammaguir is a town in Algeria, south-west of Coulomb-Bechar. Between 1947 and 1967 there was a rocket launch site near Hammaguir, used by France for launching sounding rockets and the satellite carrier " Diamond" between 1965 and 1967. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hammaguir"
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) ( Chinese: 酒泉卫星发射中心) is a People's Republic of China space vehicle launch facility ( spaceport) in the Gobi desert in Inner Mongolia located about 1,600 km from Beijing. It is located at . It was founded in 1958, making it China's first of three spaceports. More Chinese launchs have occurred at Jiuquan than anywhere else. As with all Chinese launch facilities it is remote and generally closed to foreigners. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center" The Ultimate http://www.shortopedia.com Machine.
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility ( spaceport) at Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site is midway between Miami and Jacksonville, Florida. It is 55 km long and around 10 km wide, covering 567 km². Around 17,000 people work at the site. There is a visitor center and public tours and KSC is a major tourist destination for visitors to Florida. Because much of KSC is off limits to development, the site also serves as an important wildlife sanctuary, with only 9% of the land developed. ...more on Wikipedia about "John F. Kennedy Space Center"
Korea Space Center, the nation’s first space center scheduled to be completed by the end of 2006 at Kohung, South Jeolla Province. The space center, expected to send a satellite into space in 2007, may help overcome the credibility problem caused by Hwang Woo-suk’s stem cell scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Korea Space Center"
The Mojave Spaceport , also known as the Mojave Airport and Civilian Flight Test Center, is the first facility to be licensed in the United States for horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft. It was certified as a spaceport by the Federal Aviation Administration on June 17, 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mojave Spaceport"
Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport, located about 800 km north of Moscow and south of Arkhangelsk (coordinates vary in different sources, but seems plausible). ...more on Wikipedia about "Plesetsk Cosmodrome"
The San Marco platform was an floating spaceport that was developed by a partnership between the Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali at the University of Rome and NASA to serve as a launch pad for Italian spacecraft. It was a former oil platform, sited to the north of Ras Ngomeni on the coastal sublittoral of Kenya, at , and was close to the equator (which is an energetically favourable location for rocket launches). Launches from the platform were controlled from San Rita, a second former oil platform located to San Marco's south-east. ...more on Wikipedia about "San Marco platform"
Sea Launch is spacecraft launch service, which uses mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of three stage Zenit-3SL rockets with commercial payloads. The company is managed and partially owned by Boeing, which was the driving force behind its creation. ** ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Sea Launch"
A spaceport is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy with airport for aircraft. Typically the site is large enough that, should a rocket explode, it will not endanger human lives or adjacent launch pads. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spaceport"
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Svobodny is a Russian rocket launching site used since 1996 located in Amur Oblast. It is situated at 51°42' N and 128°00 ' E. Originally constructed as a launch site for intercontinental missiles, it was planned as replacement for Baikonur, which became a foreign territory after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the development was not finished because of financial difficulties. Since 1997 rockets were launched off launchers of the type Start-1. ...more on Wikipedia about "Svobodny"
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) ( ) is a People's Republic of China space and defence launch facility. It is situated in Kelan County of north China's Shanxi Province(37°30'N 112°36'E) and is the second of three launch sites having been founded in March 1966 and coming into full operation in 1968. Taiyuan sits at an altitude of 1500 meters and its dry weather makes it an ideal launch site. Confusingly, U.S. intelligence designates TSLC the 'Wuzhai Missile and Space Test Centre," despite the fact that the town of Wuzhai is located a considerable distance from the Taiyuan space launch facility. ...more on Wikipedia about "Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center"
The Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) is one of Japan's space development facilities. It was established in 1969 when the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was formed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tanegashima Space Center"
Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 3 (SLC-3) was the first launch platform for the Atlas rocket system. SLC-3 consists of two pads, -3E and -3W, and was built in the early 1960s. Unlike Cape Canaveral, which uses a North-South coastline to make over-ocean launches into standard orbits, the East-West coastline at Vandenburg allows SLC-3 to launch over-ocean polar trajectories that avoid landfall until passing over Antarctica. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3"
Vandenberg Air Force Base is a base with a spaceport, located in Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the base had a total population of 6,151. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vandenberg Air Force Base"
Woomera ( ) is a town in South Australia, 488 km north of Adelaide, along the Stuart Highway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Woomera, South Australia"
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) ( ) is a Chinese facility approximately 64 km northwest of Xichang City in Sichuan Province. It is well-serviced by a dedicated railway and highway directly from Xichang Airport to the launch site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Xichang Satellite Launch Center"
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