SpaceportDB
105 spaceports and launch sites across six continents. From Baikonur and the Cape to equatorial Kourou, polar Vandenberg, and the new commercial pads, understand where rockets leave the Earth.
Key Launch Sites
Baikonur Cosmodrome
The cosmodrome where space flight began: Sputnik in 1957 and Gagarin in 1961. Sprawling over the Kazakh steppe, Baikonur is leased...
Kennedy Space Center
The home of Apollo. Saturn V moonshots left Pad 39A from 1967, the shuttle fleet flew 30 years, and SpaceX now leases 39A for Falc...
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The Cape opened with a captured V-2 called Bumper 8 in 1950 and flew the Mercury missions. Today dozens of pads host Falcon 9, Atl...
Guiana Space Centre (Kourou)
The European gateway to space at 5 degrees north, ideal for eastward launches to geostationary orbit. Ariane rockets flew from 197...
Starbase
The SpaceX build and launch complex at Boca Chica, Texas, where Starship prototypes are welded in giant rings, tested, and flown. ...
Vandenberg Space Force Base
The West Coast polar launch base, first to orbit a satellite over the poles with Discoverer 1 in 1959. Rockets fly south over the ...
Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
The coastal Hainan spaceport, opened in 2016 for the huge Long March 5. Space station modules, Moon and Mars probes, and the heavi...
Peenemunde
The birthplace of spaceflight and of the missile age. The army team under von Braun developed the V-2, first flown successfully in...
Rocket Lab LC-1 (Mahia)
The first private orbital launch site in the Southern Hemisphere, on a remote peninsula north of Gisborne. Electron first flew in ...
Plesetsk Cosmodrome
A secret ICBM base turned busiest launch complex in history. Since its first space shot in 1966, Plesetsk has flown more orbital l...