List of spaceports

List of spaceports

The following is a list of spaceports:

Africa

North America

USA

Alaska

* Kodiak Launch Complex, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska

California

* Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California
* Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Florida

* Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Merritt Island, Florida - Launches commercial and U.S. Government unmanned missions.
* Kennedy Space Center, also on Merritt Island, Florida - Launches NASA's manned missions

Nevada

* Area 51, Groom Lake Facility, Nellis Test and Training Range, Nevada

New Mexico

* Spaceport America [http://www.spaceportamerica.com/whiteSands.html] , Upham, New Mexico

Oklahoma

* Oklahoma Spaceport, Burns Flat, Oklahoma [http://www.okspaceport.state.ok.us/] [http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=6290] [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/FAA_allows_commercial_spaceflights_out_of_Oklahoma_Spaceport]

Texas

* Corn Ranch, Van Horn, Texas

Virginia

* Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) / Wallops Flight Facility, on the Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia

Wisconsin

* Spaceport Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, (proposed)

Canada

* Cape Breton space center, Nova Scotia (proposed)
* Cape Rich, LFCATC Meaford, Grey County, Ontario (proposed)
* Fort Churchill (aka Spaceport Canada), Churchill, Manitoba (1957-58, 1995-98)

Greenland

* Thule (proposed)

outh America

Brazil

* Alcantara Launch Center, Maranhão, Brazil

French Guiana

* Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana (Operated by the French CNES for the European Space Agency)

Oceania

Australia

*Woomera, South Australia (former, and proposed)
* Christmas Island Spaceport, Christmas Island, Australia (Proposed) Fact|date=February 2007
* Cape York Spaceport, Cape York, Australia (Proposed for operate by Ukraine)

Open ocean

* Ocean Odyssey complex, operated by private company Sea Launch, with a converted oil platform between Long Beach, California, where a rocket is collected, and the equator, where the rocket is launched from the platform
* Russian Delta class submarines that launch un-manned satellites into Earth orbit via converted SLBM missile Shtil, since 1998, from the Barents Sea [ [http://www.astronautix.com/sites/domvskiy.htm] ]

ee also

* Rocket launch sites

References


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