Commercial Launch Sites
22 sites
Starbase
The SpaceX build and launch complex at Boca Chica, Texas, where Starship prototypes are welded in giant rings, tested, and flown. ...
Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak
A commercial launch site on Narrow Cape, Kodiak Island, suited to polar and sun synchronous orbits. Its first orbital launch in 20...
Mojave Air and Space Port
The first facility licensed for horizontal takeoff spaceflight. SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X Prize here in 2004 as the first priv...
Corn Ranch
The private West Texas launch site of Blue Origin, bought by Jeff Bezos in the early 2000s. New Shepard made its first flight in 2...
Spaceport America
The first purpose built commercial spaceport in the world, a striking terminal beside a mountain runway. Virgin Galactic flew its ...
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 ...
Hokkaido Spaceport (Taiki)
A small coastal runway and launch site at Taiki in eastern Hokkaido. Interstellar Technologies flew its MOMO rocket repeatedly and...
Hainan International Commercial Space Launch Site
The first spaceport dedicated to commercial rockets in China, beside Wenchang. Its maiden launch in November 2024 also marked the ...
SaxaVord Spaceport
On Unst, the northernmost Shetland island, the first spaceport in the United Kingdom licensed for vertical launch. German and Brit...
Arnhem Space Centre
On the Gove peninsula in the Northern Territory, the closest Australian site to the equator. NASA launched three sounding rockets ...
Koonibba Test Range
A rocket test range on the lands of the Koonibba Aboriginal community near Ceduna, South Australia, firing suborbital rockets and ...
Space Launch Complex 40
Originally built for the Titan III, SLC-40 sent Mars Observer and the Cassini probe on their way before the Titan family retired. ...
Space Launch Complex 41
Built beside SLC-40 for the Titan III, SLC-41 launched the Viking landers to Mars and both Voyager probes in the 1970s. Rebuilt fo...
Launch Complex 36
Atlas Centaur rockets flew from LC-36 for decades, launching the Surveyor Moon landers and Pioneer 10 toward Jupiter. After its ol...
Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4
Built for Atlas Agena and Titan rockets carrying reconnaissance satellites, SLC-4 East later launched the Titan IV until 2005. Spa...
Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 3
Originally built for Atlas Agena launches of early reconnaissance satellites, SLC-3 East was rebuilt for the Atlas V, which first ...
Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
A port on the Yellow Sea in Shandong province that serves as home base for Chinese sea launches. Rockets are prepared at Haiyang a...
Space Port Kii
The first private spaceport in Japan, on the Kii peninsula in Wakayama prefecture, built by Space One for its Kairos solid fuel ro...
Bowen Orbital Spaceport
Built at Abbot Point near Bowen in Queensland as the launch site for the Eris rocket of Gilmour Space Technologies. Eris made the ...
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
The commercial spaceport within Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coast. Its Pad 0A has launched the Antares rocket carrying...
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2
The Electron launch pad of Rocket Lab within the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. Its first orbital la...
SpaceX McGregor Test Site
The SpaceX rocket development and test facility in McGregor, Texas, where Merlin and Raptor engines are test fired. The Grasshoppe...