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List of spaceports
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The following is a list of spaceports:
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- Broglio Space Centre, Malindi, Kenya (operated by Italy) [1]
- Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China
- Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China
- Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, China (Under expansion)
- Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China
- Palmachim Air Force Base, Israel
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Tyuratam, Kazakhstan (operated by Russia)
- Korea Space Center, South Korea (Under construction)
- Sonmiani Launch Center, Pakistan
- Singapore spaceport, Singapore (Proposed)
- Ras Al Khaimah spaceport, United Arab Emirates (Proposed)
Note that some European countries operate space ports in Africa, South America, or other equatorial regions. These space ports are listed in this article according to their geographical location.
- Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
- Svobodny, Amur Oblast, Russia
- Spaceport Sweden, Esrange, Kiruna, Sweden (proposed)
- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Merritt Island, Florida
- Corn Ranch, Van Horn, Texas
- Kennedy Space Center, also on Merritt Island, Florida
- Kodiak Launch Complex, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) / Wallops Flight Facility, on the Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia
- Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California
- Oklahoma Spaceport, Burns Flat, Oklahoma [2][3][4]
- Southwest Regional Spaceport / Spaceport America[5], Upham, New Mexico
- Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
- Spaceport Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, (proposed)
- Cape Breton space center, Nova Scotia (proposed)
- Cape Rich, LFCATC Meaford, Grey County, Ontario (proposed)
- Spaceport Canada, Fort Churchill, Churchill, Manitoba (proposed)
- Thule (proposed)
- Guiana Space Center at Kourou, French Guiana (Operated by the CNES for the European Space Agency)
- Woomera, South Australia (proposed)
- Christmas Island Spaceport, Christmas Island, Australia (Proposed)[citation needed]
- Sea Launch sails with a converted oil platform between Long Beach, California, where a rocket is collected, and the equator, where the rocket is launched from the platform