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INDEX

(K)  PLA : Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center: https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2021/06/pla-taiyuan-satellite-launch-center-see.html

( J )   Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site :     https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2021/07/pla-wenchang-spacecraft-launch-site.html

 ( I )   PLA : Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center : https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2021/06/jiuquan-satellite-launch-center.html 

(H)  PLA- Xichang Satellite Launch Center [ 28°14′45.66″N 102°1′35.60″E ] :  https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2021/06/xichang-satellite-launch-center.html 

(G) PLA - Mapping the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force  : https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2021/01/pla-mapping-peoples-liberation-army.html  

(F) PLA : People's Liberation Army Rocket Force  (PLARF) :   https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2021/01/pla-peoples-liberation-army-rocket_11.html  

(E ) White Paper on China's Space Activities in 2016 :   https://bcvasundhra.blogspot.com/2021/06/white-paper-on-chinas-space-activities.html 

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Oceania

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
New Zealand	Birdling's Flat	43.81700°S 172.68300°E					Formerly proposed launch site for Rocket Lab, never developed.
New Zealand	Mahia	39.26044°S 177.86431°E	2017–	13	10 500 kg	Orbital	First commercial spaceport in the southern hemisphere.
Marshall Islands	Reagan Test Site, Omelek Island, Kwajalein Atoll	9.048167°N 167.743083°E	1950s–		39 000 kg	Orbital	US-controlled ICBM base converted for satellites. SpaceX Falcon 1. Close to the equator.
Australia	Woomera Test Range, SA	30.95875°S 136.50366°E	1950s–		28 000 kg	Orbital	Australian government research facility. Missile testing, 2 satellite launches.
Australia	Carnarvon, WA	24.48564°S 113.40866°E	1964–1965	12		120 km
Australia	Lancelin, WA	30.98309°S 115.31774°E	1974–1974	2			During a total solar eclipse
Australia	Koonibba Test Range, SA	31.885558°S 133.448686°E	2020–	2		85 km
Australia	Whalers Way Orbital Launch Complex, SA	34.934°S 135.6523°E	2020?–				Proposed
Australia	Gulkula, NT		2021?–				Proposed

Past and/or Planned only

• Weipa, on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. The Cape York Space Agency was established by the government to develop a launch facility for Ukrainian Zenit launches at Weipa. However, traditional owners represented by the Cape York Land Council blocked the proposal.^[86][87]
• Christmas Island, Australian external territory.
  • Site planned 1997 by the Asia Pacific Space Centre, but did not go ahead due to insufficient backing.^[88]
  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) conducted Phase I of a High Speed Flight Demonstration (HSFD) at Aeon Field on Christmas Island in 2002.^[89]

   Launches at Sea

Country	Location	Coordinates	Operational date	Number of rocket launches	Heaviest rocket launched	Highest achieved altitude	Notes
	Ocean Odyssey complex	Mobile	1999–	30	462 000 kg	Orbital	Mobile satellite launch platform operated by Sea Launch. Uses a converted oil platform that plies between Long Beach, California, where a Zenit-3SL rocket is collected, and the equator, where the rocket is launched.
Russia	Russian Delta class submarines	Mobile	1998–	2	30 000 kg	Orbital	Launch of unmanned satellites into Earth orbit via converted SLBM missile Shtil from the Barents Sea.
Denmark	MLP Sputnik	55°02′57″N 15°36′11″E	2010–	4	1 630 kg	8.2 km	Mobile satellite launch platform operated by Copenhagen Suborbitals.

Additional Rocket Launch sites in the Oceans and Antarctica

Please delete items or move them to the table above with appropriate data and references.

Ascension Island (Atlantic island, 7.97476°S 14.41470°W) Barking Sands (Pacific island, 22.04872°N 159.77650°W) Base Matienzo (Antarctica, 64.80000°S 60.10000°W) Bigen Island (Marshall Islands,[citation needed] 8.36458°N 171.04284°E) Bikini Atoll (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, 13.59692°N 144.90248°E) Johnston Atoll (Pacific island, 16.73294°N 169.52980°W) Kerguelen (South Pacific island, 49.35220°S 70.21914°E) Kindley Air Force Base (Bermuda islands, 32.36179°N 64.68583°W) McMurdo Station (Antarctica, 77.85000°S 166.66000°E)

Molodyozhnaya (Antarctica), 67.66000°S 45.85000°E) Rarotonga (Cook Islands, 21.20237°S 159.80614°W) Rothera (Antarctica, 67.56700°S 68.11700°W) Siple (Antarctica, 75.94000°S 84.24810°W) Syowa Base (Antarctica, 69.00000°S 39.58000°E) Vicecomodoro Marambio Station (Antarctica, 64.27000°S 56.72000°W) Wake Island (Pacific island, 19.28997°N 166.61768°E)

See Also

• Launch pad
• Spaceport, including lists of spaceports that have achieved satellite launches and launches of humans
• List of launch complexes

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

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Spaceports
Active	Asia China: CNSA  Jiuquan Taiyuan Wenchang Xichang India: ISRO  Satish Dhawan Thumba Indonesia: LAPAN  Pameungpeuk Iran: ISA  Semnan Israel: ISA  Palmachim Japan: JAXA  Tanegashima Uchinoura Kazakhstan / Russia: Roscosmos / VKS  Baikonur VKS  Sary Shagan North Korea: NADA  Sohae South Korea: KARI  Naro Pakistan: SUPARCO  Sonmiani Tilla Russia: Roscosmos  Vostochny VKS  Dombarovsky / Yasny Europe Norway: NSC  Andøya SvalRak Russia: VKS  Kapustin Yar Plesetsk Sweden: SSC  Esrange Spain: INTA  El Arenosillo North America United States government: USSF  Cape Canaveral SFS / ER Vandenberg SFB / WR NASA  Kennedy Wallops United States academic launches  Poker Flat United States private launches  Camden Corn Ranch Pacific MARS Mojave Spaceport America Oceania Australia: RAAF  Woomera New Zealand: Rocket Lab  Mahia Peninsula Marshall Islands / United States: DoD  Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein South America Brazil: FAB / AEB  Alcântara Barreira do Inferno Europe: ESA / France: CNES  Guiana / Kourou International waters Russia: Sea Launch
Proposed	Canada: Maritime Launch Services (Canso) Indonesia: LAPAN  Biak Sweden: Spaceport Sweden (Kiruna) United Kingdom: UKSA  Sutherland Shetland United States: Airport extensions  Cecil, Florida Clinton-Sherman, Oklahoma Colorado Air and Space Port Ellington, Texas Midland, Texas SpaceX  Boca Chica Spain:  El Hierro
Historical	Algeria / France: CIEES Hammaguir Reggane Australia: Carnarvon Canada: Churchill Hall Beach Resolute Bay China: Guangde Nanhui Nazi Germany: Greifswalder Oie Peenemünde Poland / Nazi Germany: Blizna Tuchola Forest Greece: Koroni India: Balasore Italy: Salto di Quirra Japan: Akita Nii-jima Obachi Ryori Kenya / Italy: Broglio, Malindi North Korea: Tonghae Soviet Union / Russia: Kheysa Okhotsk Svobodny Spain: El Arenosillo Sweden: Kronogård USA: Edwards WSSH

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