This article constitutes a list of rocket launch sites. Some of these sites are known as spaceports or cosmodromes. A single rocket launch is sufficient for inclusion in the table, as long as the site is properly documented through a reference. Missile locations with no launches are not included in the list. Proposed and planned sites and sites under construction are not included in the main tabulation, but may appear in condenced lists under the tables.

Shorter lists with the most well-known spaceports:

• A list of spaceports for human spaceflight is available in the article Spaceport
  Spaceport
  A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy with seaport for ships or airport for aircraft. The word spaceport, and even more so cosmodrome, has traditionally been used for sites capable of launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth or on interplanetary trajectories...
  
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• A list of spaceports for satellite launches is available in the article Spaceport
  Spaceport
  A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy with seaport for ships or airport for aircraft. The word spaceport, and even more so cosmodrome, has traditionally been used for sites capable of launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth or on interplanetary trajectories...
  
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Sorting order

• A table for each continent;
• Countries in alphabetical order within a table;
• Launch sites within a country are sorted cronologically according to start of operations.

Column specification

• Country - territory of the site (the organisation responsible for the launches may reside elsewhere, as indicated in the notes column;
• Location - Name of launch site (sometimes also province etc)
• Coordinates - geographical coordinates
• Operational date - the period of years of launch activities
• Number of rocket launches - the total number of launches, including failed launches
• Heaviest rocket launched - total mass at lift-off
• Highest achieved altitude - height in km above launch site
• Notes - comments

Africa

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...	Hammaguira French Special Weapons Test Centre, Hammaguir Hammaguir Hammaguir is a town in Algeria, south-west of Béchar. Between 1947 and 1967 there was a rocket launch site near Hammaguir, used by France for launching sounding rockets and the satellite carrier "Diamant" between 1965 and 1967....	31.09951°N 2.83581°W	1947–1967		18 000 kg	Orbital	Operated by France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... .
Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...	Reggane Reggane Reggane from berber argan is a town in the Adrar Province of central Algeria, in the Sahara Desert. It is the southernmost town of the Tuat....	26.71895°N 0.27691°E	1961–1965	10
Congo (Zaire) Zaire The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971 and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers".-Self-proclaimed Father of the Nation:In...	Shaba North Shaba North Shaba North was the launch site of the first rockets launched by Orbital Transport und Raketen AktienGesellschaft, or Orbital Forwarding Company in English... , Kapani Tonneo OTRAG Launch Center	7.92587°S 28.52766°E	1977–1978	3		<50 km	German OTRAG OTRAG OTRAG , was a German company based in Stuttgart, which planned in the late 1970s and early 1980s to develop an alternative propulsion system for rockets. OTRAG was the first commercial developer and producer of space launch vehicles...  rockets.
Kenya Kenya Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...	Broglio Space Centre (San Marco), Malindi Malindi Malindi is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Galana River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya. It is 120 kilometres northeast of Mombasa. The population of Malindi is 117,735 . It is the capital of the Malindi District.Tourism is the major industry in Malindi. The city is...	2.94080°S 40.21340°E	1964–1988	27	20 000 kg	Orbital	Scout rockets, operated by ASI Italian Space Agency The Italian Space Agency is a government agency established in 1988 to fund, regulate and coordinate space exploration activities in Italy...  and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Libya Libya Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....	Seba Oasis, Tawiwa OTRAG Launch Center	26.99392°N 14.46425°E	1981–1982			50 km	German OTRAG OTRAG OTRAG , was a German company based in Stuttgart, which planned in the late 1970s and early 1980s to develop an alternative propulsion system for rockets. OTRAG was the first commercial developer and producer of space launch vehicles...  rockets.
Mauretania Mauretania Mauretania is a part of the historical Ancient Libyan land in North Africa. It corresponds to present day Morocco and a part of western Algeria...	Nouadhibou Nouadhibou Nouadhibou is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as a major commercial centre. The city itself has about 75,000 inhabitants expanding to over 90,000 in the larger metropolitan area. It is situated on a 40-mile peninsula or headland called Ras Nouadhibou, Cap Blanc, or Cabo Blanco, of...	20.92856°N 17.03153°W	1973-1973	1			During a solar eclipse Solar eclipse As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun as viewed from a location on Earth. This can happen only during a new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth. At least...
South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...	Overberg South African Test Centre	34.60265°S 20.30248°E	1989–1990				Launched test mission rockets only.

Asia

Note that some Russian cosmodromes appear in this section, some in the section Europe

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
China	Base 603 Base 603 Guangde Rocket Launch Site also known as Base 603 is a suborbital launch site that was operated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences located in Shijiedu , Shijie Town , Guangde County, Xuancheng Prefecture, Anhui province on the Chinese east coast... , Shijiedu, Guangde	30.93743°N 119.20575°E	1960-1966		1 000 kg	<60 km
China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...	Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a People's Republic of China space vehicle launch facility .The facility is part of Dongfeng Aerospace City , and is located in the Gobi desert, Ejin Banner , Alxa League , Inner Mongolia, situated about 1,600 km from Beijing.- History :It was founded in 1958,...	41.11803°N 100.46330°E	1970–		464 000 kg	Orbital	Human spaceflight
China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...	Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center also known as Base 25 , is a People's Republic of China space and defence launch facility . It is situated in Kelan County, Xinzhou Prefecture, Shanxi Province and is the second of three launch sites having been founded in March 1966 and coming into full...	39.14321°N 111.96741°E	1980–			Orbital	Polar satellites
China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...	Xichang Satellite Launch Center Xichang Satellite Launch Center The Xichang Satellite Launch Center also known as Base 27 , is a People’s Republic of China space vehicle launch facility approximately 64 km northwest of Xichang City, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province....	28.24646°N 102.02814°E	1984–			Lunar	Geo-synchronous satellites, lunar probes.
China	Jingyu	42.0°N 126.5°E
India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation , focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India's satellite programme... , Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...	8.5314°N 76.8690°E	1962–	>2000
India	Balasore Balasore Balasore is a strategically located city in the state of Orissa, about north of the state capital Bhubaneswar, in eastern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Balasore district. It is best known for Chandipur beach. It is also the site of the Indian Ballistic Missile Defense...	20.97582°N 87.04913°E
India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	Satish Dhawan Space Centre (Sriharikota) Satish Dhawan Space Centre The Satish Dhawan Space Centre is the launch centre for the Indian Space Research Organisation . It is located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India, north of Chennai in South India. It was originally called Sriharikota High Altitude Range , and was sometime known as Sriharikota Launching Range... , Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...	13.73740°N 80.23510°E	1971–		402 000 kg	Lunar	Satellites and lunar probes;
Indonesia Indonesia Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...	Pameungpeuk	7.64635°S 107.68822°E	1965–2005
Indonesia	Lapan Space Center Lapan Space Center Lapan Space Center is a facility for rocket launches at Tjulitan, West Java, Indonesia at 6°16' S and 106°52' E. It is used for launching the RX-250-LPN.-External links:* , Encyclopedia Astronautica... , Tjulitan	6.266667°S 106.866667°E	1987-	2	300 kg	70 km
Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...	Qom Space Center	34.65000°N 50.90000°E	1991				Military testing
Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...	Emamshahr Space Center	36.42000°N 55.02000°E	1998				Military testing and sounding rockets for ISA Iranian Space Agency The Iranian Space Agency is Iran's governmental space agency. Iran is an active participant in the Asian space race and became an orbital-launch-capable nation in 2009... .
Iran	Semnan Semnan Province Semnan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the north of the country, and its center is Semnan. The province of Semnan covers an area of 96,816 square kilometers and stretches along the Alborz mountain range and borders to Dasht-e Kavir desert in its southern parts.Counties of...		2009-	2		Orbital
Iraq Iraq Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....	Al-Anbar Test Centre	32.78220°N 44.29962°E	1989				Out of function
Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...	Palmachim Air Force Base Palmachim Airbase Palmachim Air Force Base is an Israeli military facility and spaceport located near the cities of Rishon LeZion and Yavne on the Mediterranean Sea. It is named after nearby Kibbutz Palmachim on the Mediterranean shore....	31.88484°N 34.68020°E	1987–	9	70 000 kg	Orbital
Japan	Akita	39.57148°N 140.05785°E	1956-1990	81		343 km
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	Uchinoura Space Center Uchinoura Space Center The is a space launch facility close to the Japanese town of Kimotsuki, 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 to the M-V launch vehicles being decommissioned...	31.25186°N 131.07914°E	1962–		139 000 kg	Orbital
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	Tanegashima Space Center Tanegashima Space Center The 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 Development Agency of Japan was formed... , Tanegashima Island	30.39096°N 130.96813°E	1967–		445 000 kg	Orbital
Japan	Ryori Ryori Ryori is a launching site for sounding rockets in Japan at in Iwate Prefecture. Ryori has been in use since April 1970, but it is not used for launching satellites....	39.03000°N 141.83000°E	1970-
Japan	Niijima	34.33766°N 139.26575°E
Japan	Obachi Obachi Obachi is a launch site for meteorological rockets and rockoons on Hokkaidō, Japan at ....	40.70342°N 141.36938°E
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	Baikonur Cosmodrome Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome , also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level... , Tyuratam Tyuratam Tyuratam is a station on the main Moscow to Tashkent railway, located in Kazakhstan. The name is a word in the Kazakh language and means "Töre's grave"; Töre, or more formally, Töre-Baba, was a noble, a descendant of Genghis Khan...	45.95515°N 63.35028°E	1957–	>1000	2 400 000 kg	Interplanetary	First satellite, first human. Operated by Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... .
Kazachstan	Sary Shagan Sary Shagan Sary Shagan is an anti-ballistic missile testing range located in Kazakhstan at coordinates .On 17 August 1956 the Soviet Council of Ministers authorized plans for an experimental facility for missile defense located at Sary Shagan, on the west bank of Lake Balkhash...	46.38000°N 72.87000°E	1958-
Korea, North	Musudan-ri Musudan-ri The Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground, also known as Musudan-ri, is a rocket launching site in North Korea. It lies in southern North Hamgyong province, near the northern tip of the East Korea Bay...	40.85572°N 129.66587°E	1998–				Military rockets; claimed satellite launch
Korea South	Anhueng Anhueng Anhueng is a launch site for sounding rockets in South Korea. It has been in use since 1993.-External links:*http://www.astronautix.com/sites/anhueng.htm...	36.70211°N 126.47158°E	1993-
Korea, South South Korea The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...	Naro Space Center, Gohueng	34.42585°N 127.52793°E	2008	2			Attempted satellite launches
Maldives	Gan Island	0.69328°S 73.15672°E
Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...	Sonmiani Satellite Launch Center Sonmiani Sonmiani is a coastal town in the southeast of Balochistan province in Pakistan, approximately 145 kilometres northwest of Karachi. The coast of Sonmiani is the northernmost point of the Arabian Sea. The town also serves as a Union Council of Hub Tehsil. Sonmiani is noted for its space research... , Las Bela Lasbela District Lasbela is a coastal district of Balochistan province of Pakistan. It became a separate district in Kalat Division on 30 June 1954. The name is derived from the words Las which in Sanskrit signifies a settlement or lived in or lively and Bela which means "A Sea's Shore" in Sanskrit and is also the... , Balochistan Balochistan (Pakistan) Balochistan is one of the four provinces or federating units of Pakistan. With an area of 134,051 mi2 or , it is the largest province of Pakistan, constituting approximately 44% of the total land mass of Pakistan. According to the 1998 population census, Balochistan had a population of...	25.19242°N 66.74881°E	1960s –				Sounding rockets, missile testing, for SUPARCO.
Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...	Tilla Satellite Launch Center Tilla Tilla Satellite Launch Center, primary known as Tilla Range, is a 25 km west of Jhelum city in Punjab. The facility is also known as Mashhood Test Firing Range... , Jhelum District Jhelum District Jhelum District is in the Punjab province of Pakistan. According the 1998 census the district had a population of 936,957, of which 31.48% were urban. Jhelum is known for providing a large number of soldiers to the British and later to the Pakistan armed forces due to which it is also known as... , Punjab Punjab (Pakistan) Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...	33.39610°N 73.29608°E	1980s –				Sounding rockets, missile testing, for SUPARCO.
Russia	Kheysa Kheysa Ernst Krenkel Observatory was a former Soviet rocket launching site located on Heiss Island, Franz Josef Land. It is named after a famous Arctic explorer Ernst Krenkel, a member of the crew of the North Pole-1 drift ice station and other notable Soviet polar expeditions.It served the MR-12 from...	80.45000°N 58.05000°E	1956-1980
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	Svobodny Cosmodrome Svobodny (launch site) Svobodny was a Russian rocket launch site used since 1996 and located at 51 degrees north in the Amur Oblast. Originally constructed as a launch site for intercontinental ballistic missiles called Svobodny-18, it was planned as a replacement for Baikonur Cosmodrome, which became a foreign... , Amur Oblast Amur Oblast Amur Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , situated about east of Moscow on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers. It shares its border with the Sakha Republic in the north, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the east, People's Republic of China in the south, and Zabaykalsky...	51.83441°N 128.27570°E	1957–		47 000 kg	Orbital	ICBM base converted for satellites
Russia	Sovetskaya Gavan Sovetskaya Gavan Sovetskaya Gavan is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, and a port on the Strait of Tartary which connects the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south. Population: 29,100 ; The name of the town is often informally abbreviated to "Sovgavan".-History:The bay on which...	48.97000°N 140.30000°E	1963-1964	6		402 km
Russia	Okhotsk Okhotsk Okhotsk is an urban locality and a seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, in Okhotsky District, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Population: 4,470 ;...	59°22′N 143°15′E	1981-2005			1000 km
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	Yasny Cosmodrome (formerly Dombarovskiy), Orenburg Oblast Orenburg Oblast Orenburg Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name Chkalov Oblast in honor of Valery Chkalov...	51.20706°N 59.85003°E	2006–		211 000 kg	Orbital	ICBM base converted for satellites

Proposed or planned spaceports and rocket launch sites in Asia

• Biak Spaceport, Papua province, Indonesia (Indonesia/Russia)
• Ras Al Khaimah spaceport
  Ras Al Khaimah spaceport
  The Ras Al Khaimah spaceport will be located in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. It is a joint venture between Prodea and Space Adventures, and will be used to launch suborbital tourist flights in the Space Adventures Explorer spaceplane.-External links:* * * * * -See...
  
  , United Arab Emirates
  United Arab Emirates
  The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
  
  
• Singapore spaceport
  Singapore spaceport
  Space Adventures has proposed a USD$115 million spaceport to be located in Singapore, near Singapore Changi Airport. If built, this spaceport will service the Space Adventures Explorer suborbital tourist rocketplane and provide astronaut training facilities and a public education and interactive...
  
  
• Tongch'ang-dong Space Launch Center, North Korea, 39.658075°N 124.7114754°E
• Vostochny Cosmodrome
  Vostochny Cosmodrome
  The Vostochny Cosmodrome is a planned Russian spaceport, to be located at 51 degrees north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. It is intended to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located in Kazakhstan...
  
  , Amur Oblast
  Amur Oblast
  Amur Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , situated about east of Moscow on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers. It shares its border with the Sakha Republic in the north, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the east, People's Republic of China in the south, and Zabaykalsky...
  
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• Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
  Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
  Wenchang Satellite Launch Center , located near Wenchang on the north-east coast of Hainan Island, is a former sub-orbital test center currently under upgrade. It is the fourth and southernmost space vehicle launch facility of the People's Republic of China...
  
  , China

Europe

Note that some European countries operate spaceports in Africa, South America, or other equatorial regions. These spaceports are listed in this article according to their geographical location. Some Russian-controlled launch sites are listed as being in Asia.

Note that some Russian cosmodromes appear in this section, some in the section Asia

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
France	Ile de Levant	43.04507°N 6.47887°E	1948-
Germany	Rocket Launch Site Berlin Rocket Launch Site Berlin Rocket Launch Site Berlin was the launch site of the Space Club in Berlin-Tegel at 52°33' N and 13°18' E. It was built in 1930, on the site of a gunnery range. The Space Club used it to develop and test two models of liquid fuel rockets, Mirak and Repulsor... , Berlin-Tegel	52.35000°N 13.21000°E	1930–1933			4 km
Germany	Peenemünde Peenemünde The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office .... /Greifswalder Oie Greifswalder Oie Greifswalder Oie is a small island in the Baltic Sea, located east of Rügen on the German coast. The island covers an area of about 54 hectares.-History:...		1942–1945	>3000	12 500 kg	>100 km	V-2 rocket V-2 rocket The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known... s during World War II.
Germany	Cuxhaven	53.84884°N 8.59154°E)	1945-1964
Germany	Hespenbusch Hespenbusch Hespenbusch is a farm, which belongs to the municipality of Grossenkneten. Karl Poggensee and the Hermann Oberth society operated between 1952 and 1957 a launch site for small rockets with a maximum flight level of some kilometers, close to this farm... , Großenkneten	52.939002°N 8.312515°E	1952–1957			<10 km
Germany	Zingst Zingst Zingst Peninsula is the easternmost portion of the three-part Fischland-Darß-Zingst Peninsula, located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany between the cities Rostock and Stralsund on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The area is part of the Pomeranian coast...	54.44008°N 12.78431°E	1970-1992	67		80 km
Germany	Kepler Launch Site Kepler Launch Site Kepler Launch Site is a site for the launch of low and medium power model rockets south of Weil der Stadt in Germany at . Kepler Launch Site, which is named in honor of the astronomer Johannes Kepler born in 1571 in Weil der Stadt, was founded in 2001 on the area of a former site of midsummer fire... , Weil der Stadt		2001-			<3 km
Greece	Koroni Koroni Koroni or Coroni is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is a municipal unit. Known as Corone by the Venetians and Ottomans, the town of Koroni Koroni or Coroni is a...	36.7698°N 21.9316°E	1966-1989	371		114 km
Iceland	Vik Vík í Mýrdal The village of Vík is the southernmost village in Iceland, located on the main ring road around the island, around by road SSE of Reykjavík....	63.41891°N 19.00463°W	1964-1965	2
Italy	Salto di Quirra Salto di Quirra Salto di Quirra is a rocket launching site near Perdasdefogu on Sardinia ....	39.52731°N 9.63303°E	1964-
Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...	Andøya Rocket Range Andøya Rocket Range Andøya Rocket Range is a rocket launch site and rocket range on Andøya island in Andøy municipality in northern Norway...	69.29430°N 16.02070°E	1962–	>900	700 kg		Rockets to the upper atmosphere.
Norway	Marka Marka (launch site) Marka is the designation of a locality in Southern Norway, at coordinates . In the proximity of Marka some sounding rockets of the type Super Loki were launched between November 1983 and January 1984....	58.20000°N 7.30000 °E	1983-1984		16 kg
Norway	SvalRak SvalRak SvalRak is the name of a launch site for sounding rockets in the neighbourhood of Ny-Ålesund on Spitsbergen at . The launch site SvalRak has been in service since 1997 and is suitable for the launch of rockets for the investigation of the earth's magnetic field. SvalRak is owned and operated by...	78.2234°N 15.6470°E	1997-
Poland	Tuchola Forest Tuchola Forest The Tuchola Forest is a large forest near the town of Tuchola in northern Poland, and lies between the Brda and Wda Rivers. It contains the Tuchola Forest National Park, which is at the core of the Tuchola Forest Biosphere Reserve, designated by UNESCO in 2010.- Landscape :The area was formed...	53.61970°N 17.98492°E	1944-1945				Nazi-German V-2 rockets
Poland	Łeba	54.76904°N 17.59355°E	1941-1945				Nazi-German rockets
Poland	Łeba	54.76904°N 17.59355°E	1963-1973	33			Polish rockets
Poland	Blizna Blizna Blizna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ostrów, within Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Ostrów, north of Ropczyce, and north-west of the regional capital Rzeszów...	50.18190°N 21.61620°E	1943-1944	139			Nazi-German V-2 rockets
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	Kapustin Yar Kapustin Yar Kapustin Yar is a Russian rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast, between Volgograd and Astrakhan. Known today as Znamensk , it was established 13 May 1946 and in the beginning used technology, material, and scientific support from defeated Germany...  Cosmodrome, Astrakhan Oblast Astrakhan Oblast Astrakhan Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Astrakhan.-Demographics:Population: Ethnic groups...	48.57807°N 46.25420°E	1957–			Orbital	Previously for satellite launches
Russia	Nyonoksa	64.64928°N 39.18721°E	1965–1997
Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	Plesetsk Cosmodrome Plesetsk Cosmodrome Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport, located in Arkhangelsk Oblast, about 800 km north of Moscow and approximately 200 km south of Arkhangelsk.-Overview:...		1966–	>1000	300 000 kg	Orbital
Spain	El Arenosillo El Arenosillo El Arenosillo is the name of a rocket launch site for suborbital rockets for atmospheric soundings, located near Mazagón in Spain. It is located in the province of Huelva in southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Andalucía....	37.09687°N 6.73863°W	1966-	>500
Sweden	Nausta	66.357202°N 19.275813°E	1961-1961	1	30 kg	<80 km	Arcas Arcas (rocket) Arcas — also designated ARCAS — was the designation of an American sounding rocket, which was launched between July 31, 1959 and August 9, 1991 at least 421 times. The Arcas has a maximum flight altitude of 52 kilometers, a takeoff thrust of 1.5 kN, a takeoff weight of 34 kilograms, and a...  rocket for atmospheric research.
Sweden	Kronogård Kronogard Kronogård is the name of a launch site for sounding rockets in North Sweden at . Kronogård was originally a hunting post for royal foresters and hunters. In the 1950s a rocket launch site was established, from which mainly rockets of the type Nike Cajun were launched to explore the upper atmosphere...	66.4147°N 19.2767°E	1961–1964	18	700 kg	135 km	Arcas Arcas (rocket) Arcas — also designated ARCAS — was the designation of an American sounding rocket, which was launched between July 31, 1959 and August 9, 1991 at least 421 times. The Arcas has a maximum flight altitude of 52 kilometers, a takeoff thrust of 1.5 kN, a takeoff weight of 34 kilograms, and a... , Nike-Cajun Nike-Cajun The Nike-Cajun was a two-stage sounding rocket built by combining a Nike base stage with a Cajun upper stage. It was launched 714 times between 1956 and 1976 and was the most frequently used sounding rocket of the western world...  and Nike-Apache rockets for atmospheric research.
Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	ESRANGE Esrange Esrange Space Center is a rocket range and research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. It is a base for scientific research with high altitude balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things... , Kiruna Kiruna Kiruna is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in Lapland province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Kiruna Municipality Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron, Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in Lapland province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is...	67.89342°N 21.10429°E	1966–1972	150	700 kg	237 km	Operated by ESRO.
Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Esrange Esrange Esrange Space Center is a rocket range and research centre located outside the town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. It is a base for scientific research with high altitude balloons, investigation of the aurora borealis, sounding rocket launches, and satellite tracking, among other things... , Kiruna Kiruna Kiruna is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in Lapland province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is the seat of Kiruna Municipality Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron, Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost city in Sweden, situated in Lapland province, with 18,154 inhabitants in 2005. It is...	67.89342°N 21.10429°E	1972–	300	12 400 kg	717 km	Operated by SSC Swedish Space Corporation The Swedish Space Corporation is a comprehensive space company covering the entire field, from the definition of innovative business concepts and space projects to the development, tests and operation of the systems.... . Major programmes: Maxus Maxus (rocket) Maxus is a sounding rocket that are used in the MAXUS microgravity rocket programme, a joint venture between Swedish Space Corporation and EADS Astrium Space Transportation used by ESA... , Texus TEXUS TEXUS is a European/German sounding rocket programme, serving the microgravity programmes of ESA and DLR. The launches are conducted from Esrange in Sweden.... , Maser Maser (rocket) Maser is a sounding rocket that is used in the MASER microgravity research rocket programme, which is operated by the Swedish Space Corporation . The main customer is the European Space Agency , and in particular its EMIR and ELIPS programmes.... , stratospheric balloons.
United Kingdom	The Needles The Needles The Needles is a row of three distinctive stacks of chalk that rise out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight, England, close to Alum Bay. The Needles lighthouse stands at the end of the formation...	50.6639345°N 1.5763664°W	1956-1971
United Kingdom	South Uist South Uist South Uist is an island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. In the 2001 census it had a usually resident population of 1,818. There is a nature reserve and a number of sites of archaeological interest, including the only location in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been found. The...	57.33000°N 7.33000 °W	1959-

North America

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
Canada	Fort Churchill Fort Churchill (rocket launch site) Fort Churchill is a rocket launching complex located in Churchill, Manitoba. The site has been used on and off since the mid-1950s for sub-orbital launches of various sounding rockets during several major studies... , Manitoba Manitoba Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...	58.73430°N 93.82030°W	1954–1985	>3500			Canadian Army.
Canada	Hall Beach	68.77607°N 81.24346°W	1971-1971	7		270 km
Canada	Southend Southend, Saskatchewan Southend is a small village in northeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It sits at the southern end of Reindeer Lake, the ninth largest lake in Canada. It has around 700 in population. . The village is the terminus of Highway 102....	76.4240°N 68.2936°W	1980-1980	2	1 200 kg
Greenland (Denmark)	Thule Air Base Thule Air Base Thule Air Base or Thule Air Base/Pituffik Airport , is the United States Air Force's northernmost base, located north of the Arctic Circle and from the North Pole on the northwest side of the island of Greenland. It is approximately east of the North Magnetic Pole.-Overview:Thule Air Base is the...	76.4240°N 68.2936°W	1964–1980				US Air Force
USA	Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility , located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is operated by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other U.S. government agencies... , Delmarva Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula The Delmarva Peninsula is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by most of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia... , Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...	37.84621°N 75.47938°W	1945–				Now operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Goddard Space Flight Center The Goddard Space Flight Center is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. GSFC,...
USA	White Sands Missile Range White Sands Missile Range White Sands Missile Range is a rocket range of almost in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The largest military installation in the United States, WSMR includes the and the WSMR Otera Mesa bombing range...	32.56460°N 106.35908°W	1946-	>7000			Military and civilian flights. Served as alternate landing site for the space shuttle.
USA	Nevada Test and Training Range Nevada Test and Training Range The Nevada Test and Training Range is a training facility of the United States Air Force located in the desert of southern Nevada in the United States. It is the largest of its kind in the US, and is operated by the USAF Warfare Center's 98th Range Wing...  (formerly Nellis Air Force Range)	36.77150°N 116.11374°W	1950s–
USA	Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. Located on Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida, CCAFS is the primary launch head of America's Eastern Range with four launch pads... , Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...	28.46675°N 80.55852°W	1956–			Interplanetary	Commercial and U.S. Government unmanned missions.
USA	Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base, located approximately northwest of Lompoc, California. It is under the jurisdiction of the 30th Space Wing, Air Force Space Command .... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	34.77204°N 120.60124°W	1958–			Orbital	Satellites, ballistic missile tests. Government and commercial launches.
USA	Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program... , Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...	28.6082°N 80.6040°W	1963–	151	3 000 000 kg	Lunar	Launched NASA's manned missions. Adjacent to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
USA	Keweenaw (Rocket launch site) Keweenaw (Rocket launch site) The Keweenaw rocket launch site was an isolated launch pad located in U.S. state of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. It was used between 1964 and 1971 for launching rockets for meteorological data collection. NASA along with the University of Michigan conducted the project under the lead of Dr....	47.42980°N 87.71443°W	1963–1971	>50	770 kg	<160 km	Currently inactive
USA	Kodiak Launch Complex Kodiak Launch Complex The Kodiak Launch Complex is a commercial rocket launch facility for sub-orbital and orbital space launch vehiclesowned and operated by the Alaska Aerospace Corporation, a public corporation of the State of Alaska.... , Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...	57.43533°N 152.33931°W	1991–	14	86 000 kg	Orbital	Ballistic missile interceptor tests, satellite launches. Alaska Aerospace Corporation.
USA	Mojave Air & Space Port, California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...	35.05910°N 118.14880°W	2004–			112 km	Privately funded spaceflights (SpaceShipOne).
USA	Spaceport America Spaceport America Spaceport America is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States. It lies north of El Paso, north of Las Cruces, east of Truth or Consequences...  (formerly Southwest Regional Spaceport), Upham Upham, New Mexico Upham is an uninhabited, unincorporated town and place in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It has gained recognition for being near the site for the Spaceport America facility being developed by the New Mexico Spaceport Authority... , New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...	32.88943°N 106.99945°W	2006–	8			Sub-orbital commercial and planned space tourist launches. Joint venture between state of New Mexico and Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is a company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public, along with suborbital space science missions and orbital launches of small satellites... .
USA	Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport 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.-Background:...  (MARS), Delmarva Peninsula Delmarva Peninsula The Delmarva Peninsula is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by most of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia... , Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...	37.833378°N 75.483284°W	2006–	5	36 000 kg	Orbital	Operates in partnership with NASA, adjacent to the Wallops Flight Facility site. Designed for both commercial and government launches.

Additional rocket launch sites in North America

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• Arecibo
  Arecibo
  Arecibo may refer to:*Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a municipality located by the Atlantic Ocean*Arecibo Observatory, a very sensitive radio telescope located approximately south-southwest from the city of Arecibo...
  
   (Puerto Rico, 18.4830°N 66.4396°W
• Barbados
  Barbados
  Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
  
  , 13.0770°N 59.4758 °W
• Barter Island
  Barter Island
  Barter Island is an island located on the Arctic coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, east of Arey Island in the Beaufort Sea. It is about four miles long and about two miles wide at its widest point....
  
   (USA, 70.10876°N 143.63455°W
• Black Rock Desert
  Black Rock Desert
  The Black Rock Desert is an arid region in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan...
  
   (USA, 41.00000°N 119.00000°W
• Black Mesa
  Black Mesa Test Range
  Black Mesa is a rocket testing facility of the US Army in Utah. Many rockets of the Pershing type have been launched for testing from Black Mesa between 1963 and 1971.- External links :* http://www.astronautix.com/sites/blakmesa.htm...
  
   (USA, 37.37000°N 109.29000°W
• Charlestown, Rhode Island
  Charlestown, Rhode Island
  Charlestown is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 7,827 at the 2010 census.-History:Charlestown is named after King Charles II, and was incorporated in 1738. The area was formerly part of the town of Westerly...
  
   (USA, 41.36002°N 71.66840°W
• Com Range
  Blue Origin
  Blue Origin is a privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company was awarded $3.7 million in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement under the Commercial Crew Development program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human...
  
   (USA, 31.33000°N 104.90000°W
• Cape Parry
  Cape Parry
  Cape Parry is a headland in Canada's Northwest Territories. Located at the northern tip of the Parry Peninsula, it projects into Amundsen Gulf, from the North Pole. The nearest settlement is Paulatuk, to the south, and Fiji Island is located to the west...
  
   (Canada, 70.17000°N 124.71700°W
• Cold Lake
  CFB Cold Lake
  Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake , commonly referred to as CFB Cold Lake, is a Canadian Forces Base located within the City of Cold Lake, Alberta. It is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force and is one of two bases in the country using the CF-18 Hornet fighter/interceptor...
  
   (Canada, 54.40472°N 110.28293°W
• Datil
  Datil, New Mexico
  Datil is an unincorporated town in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. Located at the intersection of U.S. Route 60 and New Mexico State Road 12, Datil is on the edge of the Cibola National Forest. The Very Large Array is also nearby. Rock climbers are attracted to Datil because it hold the...
  
   (USA, 34.08079°N 107.50777°W
• Eareckson (USA, Aleut islands, 52.72301°N 174.07196°E
• Eglin Air Force Base
  Eglin Air Force Base
  Eglin Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 3 miles southwest of Valparaiso, Florida in Okaloosa County....
  
   (USA, 30.39044°N 86.77345°W
• Fort Bliss
  Fort Bliss
  Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. With an area of about , it is the Army's second-largest installation behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range. It is FORSCOM's largest installation, and has the Army's largest Maneuver Area behind the...
  
   (USA, 32.07371°N 106.15256°W
• Fort Greely
  Fort Greely
  Fort Greely is a United States Army launch site for anti-ballistic missiles located approximately 100 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. It is also the home of the Cold Regions Test Center , as Fort Greely is one of the coldest areas in Alaska, and can accommodate cold, extreme cold, or...
  
   (Alaska, 63.93414°N 145.73692°W
• Fort Sherman
  Fort Sherman
  Fort Sherman is a former United States Army base located on Toro Point at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal, on the western bank of the Canal directly opposite Colón . It was the primary defensive base for the Atlantic sector of the Canal, and was also the center for US jungle warfare training...
  
   (USA, 9.36262°N 79.95009°W

• Fort Wingate
  Fort Wingate
  Fort Wingate is near Gallup, New Mexico. There were two locations in New Mexico that had this name. The first one was located near San Rafael. The current fort was established on the southern edge of the Navajo territory in 1862. The initial purpose of the fort was to control the large Navajo...
  
   (USA, 35.44868°N 108.59940°W
• Fort Yukon (USA, 66.56230°N 145.19720°W
• Gillam
  Gillam, Manitoba
  Gillam, Manitoba, Canada, is a community between Thompson and Churchill on the Hudson Bay Railway line. Gillam is a significant community because of the nearby Nelson River Bipole converter station on the Nelson River...
  
   (Canada, 56.08968°N 96.08925°W
• Gilson Butte
  Gilson Butte
  Gilson Butte is a rocket launch site of the US military situated at . At Gilson Butte, the Pershing 1 rocket was tested between 1964 and 1970....
  
   (USA, 38.60783°N 110.59802°W
• Grand Turk Island
  Grand Turk Island
  Grand Turk Island is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is the largest island in the Turks Islands with . It contains the territory's capital, Cockburn Town and the JAGS McCartney International Airport...
  
   21.472222°N 71.138889°W
• Holloman (USA, 32.90275°N 106.09836°W
• Kwajalein
  Kwajalein
  Kwajalein Atoll , is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands . The southernmost and largest island in the atoll is named Kwajalein Island. English-speaking residents of the U.S...
  
   (USA, Atoll in the Pacific, 8.99948°N 167.65457°E
• Mercury (USA, 36.67421°N 115.96832°W
• NAOTS
  NAOTS
  NAOTS was a United States Navy base located at , near Chincoteague, VA, that was used as a suborbital launch site. In 1955, research rockets of the Rockair type were launched from F2H-2 planes based there. An altitude of 54,864 m was reached with a 70mm folded-fin aerial rocket of Korean vintage...
  
   (USA, 37.95906°N 75.33765°W
• North Truro Air Force Station
  North Truro Air Force Station
  North Truro Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located east of North Truro, Massachusetts....
  
   (USA, 42.00000°N 70.02000°W
• Point Arguello
  Point Arguello
  Point Arguello is a headland used as a launch site by the United States Navy. Point Arguello was first used in 1959 for the launch of military and sounding rockets. It was transferred to the United States Air Force in 1964, at which time it became part of Vandenberg Air Force Base.There were 6...
  
   (USA, 34.62000°N 120.60000°W
• Point Barrow
  Point Barrow
  Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, northeast of Barrow. It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at...
  
  (Alaska, 71.28559°N 156.77593°W
• Point Mugu (USA, 34.09943°N 119.12125°W
• Poker Flat Research Range
  Poker Flat Research Range
  The Poker Flat Research Range is a launch facility and rocket range for sounding rockets in the U.S. state of Alaska, owned and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute since 1968...
  
   (Alaska, 65.12599°N 147.47894°W

• Primrose Lake
  Primrose Lake
  Primrose Lake is a large lake in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada. The lake straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, with most of the water surface in Saskatchewan. It is close to the better known Cold Lake, Alberta....
  
   (Canada, 54.75000°N 110.05000°W
• Ramey (Puerto Rico, 18.49601°N 67.12623°W
• Red Lake
  Red Lake, Ontario
  Population trend:* Population in 2006: 4526* Population in 2001: 4233* Population total in 1996: 4778** Golden : 2248** Red Lake : 2277* Population in 1991:** Golden : 2355** Red Lake : 2268-Climate:...
  
   (Canada, 50.88000°N 93.47000°W
• Resolute Bay
  Resolute Bay
  Resolute Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Parry Channel on the southern side of Cornwallis Island. The hamlet of Resolute is located on the northern shore of the bay and Resolute Bay Airport to the northwest...
  
   (Canada, 74.68696°N 94.89624°W
• San Clemente (USA, California, 32.91771°N 118.48698°W
• San Nicolas Island
  San Nicolas Island
  San Nicolas Island is the most remote of California's Channel Islands. It is part of Ventura County. The 14,562 acre island is currently controlled by the United States Navy and is used as a weapons testing and training facility, served by Naval Outlying Field San Nicolas Island...
  
  (USA, California, 33.27981°N 119.52208°W
• Santiago Ixcuintla
  Santiago Ixcuintla
  Santiago de Ixcuintla is a municipality and a municipal seat in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The municipal population was 84,314 inhabitants with the municipal seat having 18,269. The area of the municipality was 1,831.92 square kilometers...
  
   (Mexico, 21.83000°N 105.37000°W
• Sheboygan
  Spaceport Sheboygan
  -Launch site:Sheboygan was first used as a site for launching suborbital rockets in 1995. More than 300 students from Wisconsin and neighboring states developed and ran experiments using eight foot rockets as part of a local Rockets for Schools program. 20 foot rocket were also launched with...
  
  , Wisconsin, USA, |43.751°N 87.714°W
• Sierra de Juarez
  Sierra de Juárez
  Sierra de Juárez is a mountain range on the Baja California Peninsula, of Baja California, Mexico. It is part of the Peninsular Ranges. The Laguna Mountains of California lie to the north and the Sierra San Pedro Mártir lies to the south....
  
   (Mexico, 32.25000°N 115.83000°W
• Sondre Stromfjord (Greenland, 67.02364°N 50.60053°W)
• Tonopah Test Range
  Tonopah Test Range
  Tonopah Test Range , also known as Area 52, is a restricted military installation located about southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. It is part of the northern fringe of the Nellis Range, measuring . Tonopah Test Range is located about northwest of Groom Dry Lake, home of the Area 51 facility...
  
   (USA, 37.79648°N 116.77946°W
• Upham
  Spaceport America
  Spaceport America is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States. It lies north of El Paso, north of Las Cruces, east of Truth or Consequences...
  
   (USA, 32.88943°N 106.99945°W
• Yuma (USA, 32.86000°N 114.39700°W

Proposed or planned spaceports in North America

• Spaceport America
  Spaceport America
  Spaceport America is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States. It lies north of El Paso, north of Las Cruces, east of Truth or Consequences...
  
  , Upham
  Upham, New Mexico
  Upham is an uninhabited, unincorporated town and place in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It has gained recognition for being near the site for the Spaceport America facility being developed by the New Mexico Spaceport Authority...
  
  , New Mexico
  New Mexico
  New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
  
  , 32.88943°N 106.99945°W
• Spaceport Canada
  Fort Churchill (rocket launch site)
  Fort Churchill is a rocket launching complex located in Churchill, Manitoba. The site has been used on and off since the mid-1950s for sub-orbital launches of various sounding rockets during several major studies...
  
  , near Fort Churchill, Manitoba
  Manitoba
  Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
  
  , 58.73430°N 93.82030°W
• Oklahoma Spaceport, Burns Flat
  Burns Flat, Oklahoma
  Burns Flat is a town in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,057 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Burns Flat is located at ....
  
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• Corn Ranch
  Corn Ranch
  Corn Ranch is a spaceport in the West Texas town of Van Horn, Texas, where flight tests of the New Shepard are carried out by Blue Origin. The 165,000-acre land parcel was purchased by Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos. The first flight test took place on November 13, 2006 with the goal of...
  
  , Van Horn, Texas
  Van Horn, Texas
  Van Horn is a town in and the county seat of Culberson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,435 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Van Horn is located at ....
  
  
• Spaceport Sheboygan
  Spaceport Sheboygan
  -Launch site:Sheboygan was first used as a site for launching suborbital rockets in 1995. More than 300 students from Wisconsin and neighboring states developed and ran experiments using eight foot rockets as part of a local Rockets for Schools program. 20 foot rocket were also launched with...
  
  , Wisconsin
  Wisconsin
  Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
  
  , 43.751°N 87.714°W
• Cape Breton
  Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
  Cape Breton Regional Municipality often shortened to simply CBRM, is a regional municipality in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton County.According to the 2006 Census of Canada, the population within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is 102,250...
  
   Spaceport (aka Cape Breton Space Center), Nova Scotia
  Nova Scotia
  Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
  
  ,
• Cape Rich, LFCATC Meaford
  LFCATC Meaford
  Land Force Central Area Training Centre Meaford is a Canadian Forces training facility operated by Land Force Central Area of Land Force Command ....
  
  , Ontario
  Ontario
  Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
  
  

South America

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
Argentina	Las Palmas Las Palmas (Argentina) Las Palmas is a rocket launch site in Argentina at used on November 12th, 1966 for the launch of some Titus rockets for observing a solar eclipse....	27.09531°S 58.75352°W	1966-1966	2	3 400 kg	270 km	During a solar eclipse Solar eclipse As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun as viewed from a location on Earth. This can happen only during a new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth. At least... , with Titus Titus (rocket) Titus is the designation of a French sounding rocket which was developed for observation of the total solar eclipse in Argentina on November 12, 1966. The Titus was a two-stage rocket with a length of 11.5 m, a launch weight of 3.4 tons, and a diameter of 56 cm. It reached a maximum height of...  rockets.
Argentina	Tartagal Tartagal, Salta Tartagal is a city in the north of the , 365 km from the provincial capital. It has over 60,000 inhabitants as per the , and it is the head town of the General José de San Martín Department...	22.76158°S 63.82381°W	1966-1966				During a solar eclipse Solar eclipse As seen from the Earth, a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, and the Moon fully or partially blocks the Sun as viewed from a location on Earth. This can happen only during a new moon, when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth. At least...
Argentina	Mar Chiquita	37.72427°S 57.40512°W	1968–1972	11
Argentina	Villa Reynolds Villa Reynolds .Villa Reynolds is a town of the General Pedernera department on the San Luis Province, Argentina.It has an airport that served the city and is also a military airbase home of the V Air Brigade of Argentine Air Force. In March 1973 two Skylark sounding rockets were launched....	33.72460°S 65.37730°W	1973-1973	2
Brazil	Natal/Barreira Centro de Lançamento da Barreira do Inferno The Barreira do Inferno Launch Center is a rocket launch base of the Brazilian Space Agency. It was created in 1965, and is located in the city of Parnamirim, near Natal, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte...	5.86600°S 35.38300°W	1965-	233		1100 km
Brazil	Praia do Cassino Praia do Cassino Praia do Cassino is located adjacent to the city of Rio Grande, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is commonly known in Brazil as the longest beach in the world , stretching from the Molhes in Cassino beach to nearly Chuí, on...	32.08338°S 52.16725°W	1966-1966	27
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	Alcântara Launch Center, Maranhão Maranhão Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil. To the north lies the Atlantic Ocean. Maranhão is neighbored by the states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará. The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent...	2.3160°S 44.3676°W	1990–	35	6 737 kg	956 km	Brazilian Air Force Brazilian Air Force The Brazilian Air Force is the air branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces and one of the three national uniformed services. The FAB was formed when the Army and Navy air branch were merged into a single military force initially called "National Air Forces"... , Brazilian Space Agency Brazilian Space Agency The Brazilian Space Agency is the civilian authority in Brazil responsible for the country's burgeoning space program. It operates a spaceport at Alcântara and a rocket launch site at Barreira do Inferno... . Planned satellite launches.
French Guiana French Guiana French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...	Guiana Space Centre, Kourou Kourou Kourou is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America.Kourou is the location of the Guiana Space Centre, France and ESA's main spaceport.-Geography:...	5.23739°N 52.76950°W	1968–	>200	777 000 kg	Interplanetary	Operated by CNES CNES The is the French government space agency . Established under President Charles de Gaulle in 1961, its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is under the supervision of the French Ministries of Defence and Research...  for ESA European Space Agency The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states... ; launch base for Arianespace Arianespace Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane 5 rocket launcher as part of the Ariane programme.... . Commercial and governmental launches.
Peru	CELPA CELPA CELPA was a rocket launch site in Argentina, near El Chamical, in the La Rioja Province. The launch site was in service between 1963 and 1973 and was mainly used for launching rockets of the types Centaure, Judi Dart, Orion, Rigel and Boosted Dart...	30.12737°S 66.34082°W
Peru	Chilca Chilca Chilca was a rocket launch site in Peru at , near to Lima. Chilca was in service from 1974 and 1983 and was mainly used for launching Arcas and Nike rockets....	12.50477°S 76.79849°W
Peru	Punta Lobos Punta Lobos Punta Lobos was a launch site for sounding rockets in Peru at . Between 1980 and 1990 some rockets of the type super Loki, Nike Orion, Taurus Orion and Taurus Tomahawk were launched there....	12.50000°S 76.8000°W			2 000 kg
Surinam	Coronie	5.87241°N 56.28908°W	1965-1965	4		205 km

Australia and New Zealand

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
Australia	Woomera Test Range Woomera Test Range The RAAF Woomera Test Range is a weapons testing range operated by the Royal Australian Air Force Aerospace Operational Support Group...	30.95875°S 136.50366°E	1950s–		28 000 kg	Orbital	British/Australian government research facility. Missile testing, 2 satellite launches.
Australia	Carnarvon Carnarvon, Western Australia Carnarvon is a coastal town situated approximately 900 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Gascoyne River on the Indian Ocean. The popular Shark Bay world heritage area lies to the south of the town and the Ningaloo Reef lies to the north...	24.48564°S 113.40866°E	1964–1965	12		120 km
Australia	Lancelin	30.98309°S 115.31774°E	1974-1974	2			During a total solar eclipse
New Zealand	Birdling's Flat Birdling's Flat Birdling's Flat, originally named Poranui, is a settlement in Canterbury, New Zealand, close to the shore of Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora.Birdling's Flat also commonly refers to the nearby pebble beach that is part of Kaitorete Spit...	43.81700°S 172.68300°E

Proposed or planned spaceports in Australia and New Zealand

• Cape York
  Cape York Peninsula
  Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland at the tip of the state of Queensland, Australia, the largest unspoilt wilderness in northern Australia and one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth...
  
   (Australia, 12.25000°S 143.10000°E), Proposed site for Russian Zenit launches.
• Christmas Island
  Christmas Island
  The Territory of Christmas Island is a territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean. It is located northwest of the Western Australian city of Perth, south of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and ENE of the Cocos Islands....
  
  , planned by Australia and Japan

Other

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
Marshall Island	Omelek	9.048167°N 167.743083°E	1950s-		39 000 kg	Orbital	ICBM base Launch facility (ICBM) A launch facility , also known as a missile silo, is an underground vertical cylindrical container for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles . They typically have the missile some distance under the surface, protected by a large "blast door" on top...  converted for satellites. SpaceX SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California... , Falcon. Close to the equator.
	Ocean Odyssey Ocean Odyssey |-External links:*...  complex	Mobile	1999–	30	462 000 kg	Orbital	Mobile satellite launch platform operated by Sea Launch 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... . Uses a converted oil platform Oil platform An oil platform, also referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a lаrge structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing...  that plies between Long Beach Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... , where a Zenit-3SL Zenit-3SL The Zenit-3SL is an expendable carrier rocket operated by Sea Launch. First flown in 1999, it has been launched 30 times, with two failures and one partial failure. It is a member of the Zenit family of rockets, and is built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. RKK Energia produces the Block DM-SL upper...  rocket is collected, and the equator Equator An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and containing the sphere's center of mass.... , where the rocket is launched.
	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... n Delta class Delta class submarine The Delta class is a class of submarines which formed the backbone of the Soviet and Russian strategic submarine fleet since its introduction in 1973...  submarine Submarine A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability... s	Mobile	1998–	2	30 000 kg	Orbital	Launch of unmanned satellites into Earth orbit via converted SLBM missile Shtil Shtil' Space launch vehicle Shtil Space launch vehicle Shtil Space launch vehicle Shtil (Russian: (Штиль - calm (weather)), is a converted SLBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit. It is based on the R-29RM designed by State Rocket Center Makeyev and related to the Volna Launch Vehicle....  from the Barents Sea Barents Sea The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of Norway and Russia. Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents... .

Additional rocket launch sites in the oceans and Antarctica

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• Ascension Island
  Ascension Island
  Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa and from the coast of South America, which is roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa...
  
   (Atlantic island, 7.97476°S 14.41470°W)
• Barking Sands
  Barking Sands
  Barking Sands is a beach on the island of Kauaʻi in the US state of Hawaiʻi. It is the location of Pacific Missile Range Facility, a rocket launch site and also an official Missile Defense Testing Area, both controlled by the United States Navy....
  
   (Pacific island, 22.04872°N 159.77650°W)
• Base Matienzo (Antarctica, 64.80000°S 60.10000°W)
• Bigen Island (Marshall Islands, 8.36458°N 171.04284°E)
• Bikini Atoll
  Bikini Atoll
  Bikini Atoll is an atoll, listed as a World Heritage Site, in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands....
  
   (Atoll in the Pacific, launches in conjunction with nuclear bomb tests, 11.61498°N 165.55293°E)
• Dumont d'Urville (Antarctica, 64.67000°S 140.02000°E)

• Eniwetok (Atoll in the Pacific, launches in conjunction with nuclear bomb tests, 11.33991°N 162.32493°E)
• Guam
  Guam
  Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...
  
  , 13.59692°N 144.90248°E)
• Johnston Atoll
  Johnston Atoll
  Johnston Atoll is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean about west of Hawaii. There are four islands located on the coral reef platform, two natural islands, Johnston Island and Sand Island, which have been expanded by coral dredging, as well as North Island and East Island , an additional two...
  
   (Pacific island, 16.73294°N 169.52980 °W)
• Kerguelen (South Pacific island, 49.35220°S 70.21914°E)
• Kindley Air Force Base
  Kindley Air Force Base
  Kindley Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base in Bermuda from 1948–1970, having been operated from 1943 to 1948 by the United States Army Air Force as Kindley Field.-World War II:...
  
   (Bermuda islands, 32.36179°N 64.68583°W)
• McMurdo Station
  McMurdo Station
  McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...
  
   (Antarctica, 77.85000°S 166.66000°E)

• Molodyozhnaya (Antarctica), 67.66000°S 45.85000°E)
• Rarotonga
  Rarotonga
  Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands, with a population of 14,153 , out of the country's total population of 19,569.The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings and international airport are on Rarotonga...
  
   (Cook Islands, 21.20237°S 159.80614°W)
• Rothera (Antarctica, 67.56700°S 68.11700°W)
• Siple
  Siple Station
  Siple Station, Antarctica was a research station in Antarctica , established in 1973 by Stanford's STAR Lab, to perform experiments that actively probed the magnetosphere using very low frequency waves...
  
   (Antarctica, 75.94000°S 84.24810°W)
• Syowa Base (Antarctica, 69.00000°S 39.58000°E)
• Vicecomodoro Marambio Station (Antarctica, 64.23000°S 56.72000°W)
• Wake Island
  Wake Island
  Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu west to Guam east. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior...
  
  (Pacific island, 19.28997°N 166.61768°E)

External links

• Overview of rocket launch sites worldwide – astronautix.com
• Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral – nasa.gov
• Description and map of Cape Canaveral – astronautix.com
• Missile Range Tool – Carlos Labs
• Baikonur – russianspaceweb.com
• Description and map of Baikonur – astronautix.com
• Description and map of Kourou – astronautix.com
• Rocket launch site Kiruna – astronautix.com
• Homepage of Esrange – ssc.se
• Rocket launch site Salto di Quirra – astronautix.com