Share This
table started by
robert for the Spaceflight Commons
There is no user-contributed description yet.
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
23 Spaceport topics matching:
Filter this Collection| x name | x image | x Controlling Country | x Location | x Controlling Space Agency | x article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x Baikonur Cosmodrome |
|
Kazakhstan | Tyuratam | Russian Federal Space Agency |
The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert...
|
| Russia | |||||
| x Alcântara | |||||
| x Cape Canaveral |
|
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. Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it sits due east of...
|
|||
| x Kodiak Launch Complex |
|
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...
|
|||
| x Plesetsk Cosmodrome |
|
Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром «Плесецк») is a Russian spaceport, located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk.
Plesetsk is used especially for military satellites placed into...
|
|||
| x Tanegashima Space Center |
|
The Tanegashima Space Center (種子島宇宙センター, tanegashima uchū sentā) (TNSC) is one of Japan's space development facilities. It is located on Tanegashima, an island located 115 km south of Kyūshū. It was established in 1969 when the National Space...
|
|||
| x Mojave Spaceport |
|
The Mojave Air & Space Port (IATA: MHV, ICAO: KMHV), also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of 2,791 feet (851 m). It is the first facility to be licensed in the United States for...
|
|||
| x Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center |
|
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) (simplified Chinese: 酒泉卫星发射中心; traditional Chinese: 酒泉衛星發射中心; pinyin: Jiǔquán Wèixīng Fāshè Zhōngxīn) is a People's Republic of China space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) in the Gobi desert, Ejina Banner ...
|
|||
| x Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center |
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC) (Chinese: 太原卫星发射中心; pinyin: Tàiyuán Wèixīng Fāshè Zhōngxīn) 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...
|
||||
| x Uchinoura Space Center |
|
The Uchinoura Space Center (内之浦宇宙空間観測所, Uchinoura uchū kūkan kansokusho) is a space launch facility close to the Japanese city of Uchinoura, in Kagoshima Prefecture. Before the establishment of the JAXA space agency in 2003, it was simply called the...
|
|||
| x Kennedy Space Center |
|
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,...
|
|||
| x Vandenberg Air Force Base |
|
Vandenberg Air Force Base (IATA: VBG, ICAO: KVBG, FAA LID: VBG) 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...
|
|||
| x Centre Spatial Guyanais |
|
France | Kourou | European Space Agency |
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...
|
| CNES | |||||
| x Sea Launch |
|
Sea Launch is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit 3SL rockets. As of April 2009 it had assembled and launched thirty rockets, with two failures and one...
|
|||
| x Guiana Space Center | |||||
| x Marshall Space Flight Center |
|
United States of America | NASA |
The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the original home of NASA, is a lead center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Space Shuttle external tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and...
|
|
| x Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport |
|
United States of America | 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 and...
|
|
| x Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 |
|
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...
|
|||
| x Wenchang Satellite Launch Center | China |
Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC) (Chinese: 文昌卫星发射中心; pinyin: Wénchāng Wèixīng Fāshè Zhōngxīn) located near Wenchang City 19°37′01″N 110°44′38″E / 19.617°N 110.744°E / 19.617; 110.744 on the north-east coast of Hainan Island, is a former...
|
|||
| x Xichang Satellite Launch Center |
|
China |
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC) (Chinese: 西昌卫星发射中心; pinyin: Xīchāng Weìxīng Fāshè Zhōngxīn) also known as Base 27（27基地）, is a People’s Republic of China space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) approximately 64 km northwest of Xichang...
|
||
| x Svobodny | Russia | Russian Federal Space Agency |
Svobodny (Russian: Свобо́дный) is a Russian rocket launch site used since 1996 and located in the Amur Oblast. Originally constructed as a launch site for intercontinental ballistic missiles, it was planned as a replacement for Baikonur Cosmodrome,...
|
||
| x Cape Canaveral |
|
Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,829 at the 2000 census. As of 2008, the estimated population according to the U.S. Census Bureau was 10,147. It is part of the Palm Bay–Melbourne–Titusville...
|
|||
| x Korea Space Center |
|
South Korea | Korea Aerospace Research Institute |
Naro Space Center is a South Korean spaceport in Goheung County, South Jeolla operated by the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute.(34°25′55″N 127°32′06″E / 34.431867°N 127.535069°E / 34.431867; 127.535069). The essential technology of...
|
|
