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| Baikonur Cosmodrome |
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Employer | Russia | Tyuratam |
The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Bajkonur), also called Tjuratam, is the world's oldest and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert...
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| Cape Canaveral |
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Cape Canaveral from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a headland in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that state's Atlantic coast 45 minutes East of Orlando by car. It sits due east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the...
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| Kodiak Launch Complex |
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The Kodiak Launch Complex (KLC) is a commercial rocket launch facility for sub-orbital and orbital space launch vehicles owned and operated by the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation, a public corporation of the state of Alaska. The facility is...
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| Plesetsk Cosmodrome |
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Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russia spaceport, located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and south of Arkhangelsk.
It was originally developed by the Soviet Union as a launch site for intercontinental...
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| Tanegashima Space Center |
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The (TNSC) is one of Japan's space development facilities. It is located on Tanegashima Island, 115 km south of Kyūshū. It was established in 1969 when the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) was formed. It is now run by JAXA.
The...
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| Mojave Spaceport |
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The Mojave Airport & Spaceport , also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of . It is the first facility to be licensed in the United States for horizontal launches of reusable spacecraft...
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| Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center | Location |
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) is a People's Republic of China space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) in the Gobi desert, Ejina Banner (额济纳旗), Alashan League (阿拉善盟), Inner Mongolia, located about 1,600 km from Beijing. It is located at ....
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| Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center | Location |
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) also known as Base 25（二十五基地）, is a People's Republic of China space and defence launch facility (spaceport). It is situated in Kelan County of north China's Shanxi Province and is the second of three...
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| Uchinoura Space Center |
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The is a space launch facility close to the Japan city of Uchinoura, in Kagoshima Prefecture. Before the establishment of the JAXA space agency in 2003, it was simply called the . All Japan's scientific satellites were launched from Uchinoura prior...
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| Kennedy Space Center |
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The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the NASA space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center (spaceport) on Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida, United States. The site is near Cape Canaveral, midway between Miami and Jacksonville,...
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| Vandenberg Air Force Base |
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Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States military installation with a spaceport, in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) with a population of 6,151 as of the 2000 census.
Vandenberg is...
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| Centre Spatial Guyanais |
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Location | France | Kourou |
The Guiana Space Centre, or more commonly, Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) is a French 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...
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| Sea Launch |
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Sea Launch is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equator launches of commercial payload on specialized Zenit 3SL rockets. As of July 2008 it had assembled and launched 28 rockets with two failures and one partial failure...
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| Marshall Space Flight Center |
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Location | United States |
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the original home of NASA, is a lead center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Shuttle external fuel tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and construction,...
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| Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport |
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United States | Delmarva Peninsula |
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) is a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Delmarva Peninsula south of Chincoteague, Virginia.
In July 2003, Governors Ehrlich of Maryland...
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| Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 |
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Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, USA. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built for the Apollo program, and later modified to support Space...
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| Wenchang Satellite Launch Center | China |
Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC) located near Wenchang City on the north-east coast of Hainan Island, is a former sub-orbital test center and currently under upgrade. It is the fourth and southernmost space vehicle launch facility ...
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| Xichang Satellite Launch Center |
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Location | China |
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) also known as Base 27（二十七基地）, is a People’s Republic of China space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) approximately 64 km northwest of Xichang City in Sichuan Province.
The facility became operational...
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| Svobodny | Location | Russia |
Svobodny is a Russia rocket launch site used since 1996 and located in the Amur Oblast. Geographical location: . Originally constructed as a launch site for intercontinental ballistic missiles, it was planned as a replacement for Baikonur...
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