- List of spaceports
The following is a list of
spaceports :Africa
North America
USA
Alaska
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Kodiak Launch Complex , Kodiak Island Borough,Alaska California
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Mojave Spaceport , Mojave,California
*Vandenberg Air Force Base ,California Florida
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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 missionsNevada
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Area 51 ,Groom Lake Facility, Nellis Test and Training Range ,Nevada New Mexico
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Spaceport America [http://www.spaceportamerica.com/whiteSands.html] , Upham,New Mexico Oklahoma
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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
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Corn Ranch ,Van Horn, Texas Virginia
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) /Wallops Flight Facility , on theDelmarva Peninsula ,Virginia Wisconsin
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Spaceport Sheboygan , Sheboygan,Wisconsin , (proposed)Canada
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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
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Alcantara Launch Center ,Maranhão ,Brazil French Guiana
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Guiana Space Centre atKourou ,French Guiana (Operated by the FrenchCNES for theEuropean Space Agency )Oceania
Australia
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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 byUkraine )Open ocean
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Ocean Odyssey complex, operated by private companySea Launch , with a convertedoil platform between Long Beach,California , where a rocket is collected, and theequator , where the rocket is launched from the platform
*Russia n Delta classsubmarine s that launch un-manned satellites into Earth orbit via convertedSLBM missileShtil , since1998 , from theBarents Sea [ [http://www.astronautix.com/sites/domvskiy.htm] ]ee also
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Rocket launch sites References
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