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List of launch sites by country

United States of America

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Active and Planned
  • SLC-11
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • New Glenn (Combined with SLC-12 and SLC-36)
  • SLC-12
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • Atlas-Able (Historically)
    • Atlas-Agena (Historically)
    • New Glenn (Combined with SLC-11 and SLC-36)
  • SLC-13
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • Atlas-Agena (Historically)
    • SpaceX LZ-1
    • SpaceX LZ-2
    • Daytona I (Planned)
    • Dauntless (Planned)
  • SLC-14
    • Atlas (Historically)
    • Mercury-Atlas (Historically)
    • Atlas-Agena (Historically)
    • Nova (Planned)
  • SLC-16
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan II (Historically)
    • Pershing 1a (Historically)
    • Pershing II (Historically)
    • Terran 1 (Historically)
    • Terran R (Planned)
  • SLC-20
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan III (Historically)
    • Alpha (Planned)
    • Medium Launch Vehicle (Planned)
  • LC-36
    • Demolished Sites
      • SLC-36A
        • Atlas-Centaur (Historically)
        • Atlas II (Historically)
      • SLC-36B
        • Atlas-Centaur (Historically)
        • Atlas I (Historically)
        • Atlas II (Historically)
        • Atlas III (Historically)
    • Combined Site
      • New Glenn (Combined with SLC-11 and 12)
  • SLC-40
    • Titan III (Historically)
    • Titan IV (Historically)
    • Falcon 9
  • SLC-41
    • Titan III (Historically)
    • Titan IV (Historically)
    • Atlas V
    • Vulcan
  • SLC-46
    • Trident II (Historically)
    • Athena I (Historically)
    • Athena II (Historically)
    • Minotaur IV (Historically)
    • Rocket 3 (Historically)
    • Future Astra Rocket (Planned)
Inactive
  • SLC-1
    • Snark (Historically)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Aerosat (Historically)
  • SLC-2
    • Snark (Historically)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Aerosat (Historically)
  • SLC-3
    • Bumper-WAC (Historically)
    • BOMARC (Historically)
    • Polaris (Historically)
    • X-17 (Historically)
  • SLC-4
    • SLC-4A (Second pad)
      • BOMARC (Historically)
    • BOMARC (Historically)
    • Redstone (Historically)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Jason (Historically)
    • Draco (Historically)
  • SLC-5
    • Jupiter-C (Historically)
    • Mercury (Historically)
    • Mercury-Redstone (Historically)
  • SLC-6
    • Redstone (Historically)
    • Jupiter (Historically)
  • SLC-9
    • Navaho (Historically)
  • SLC-15
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan II (Historically)
    • RS1 (Cancelled)
  • SLC-18
    • Viking (Historically)
    • Vanguard (Historically)
    • Thor (Historically)
    • Blue Scout Junior (Historically)
    • Blue Scout (Historically)
  • SLC-19
    • Titan I (Historically)
    • Titan II – Gemini
  • SLC-21
    • Goose (Historically)
    • Mace (Historically)
  • SLC-22
    • Goose (Historically)
    • Mace (Historically)
  • SLC-23/24
    • Triton (Historically)
    • Snark (Historically)
  • SLC-25
    • Polaris (Historically)
    • X-17 (Historically)
    • Poseidon (Historically)
    • Trident I (Historically)
  • SLC-26
    • Redstone (Historically)
      • Explorer 1 launch site
    • Jupiter (Historically)
  • SLC-29
    • Polaris (Historically)
  • SLC-30A
    • Pershing 1 (Historically)
  • SLC-31
    • Minuteman (Historically)
    • Pershing 1a (Historically)
    • Burial of Challenger remains
  • SLC-32
    • Minuteman (Historically)
  • SLC-34
    • Saturn 1 (Historically)
    • Saturn 1B (Historically)
      • Site of Apollo 1 fire
  • SLC-37B
    • Saturn 1 (Historically)
    • Saturn 1B (Historically)
    • Delta IV (Historically)
    • Delta IV Heavy ((Historically)
  • SLC-44
    • Sounding Rockets (Historically)
    • Super Loki ((Historically)
    • Super Loki Lite Star (Historically)
    • LOFT-1 (Historically)
Demolished
  • Launch Complex A (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Matador (Historically)
    • Launch Complex B (Replaced with SLC-46)
      • Matador (Historically)
  • Launch Complex C (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Matador (Historically)
  • Launch Complex D (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Matador (Historically)
  • SLC-10 (Replaced with SLC-31 and 32)
    • Jason (Historically)
    • Draco (Historically)
    • Nike Tomahawk (Historically)
  • SLC-17A
    • Thor (Historically)
    • Thor-Able (Historically)
    • Thor-Ablestar (Historically)
    • Thor-Delta (Historically)
    • Delta II (Historically)
  • SLC-17B
    • Thor (Historically)
    • Thor-Ablestar (Historically)
    • Thor-Delta (Historically)
    • Delta II (Historically)
    • Delta III (Historically)
  • SLC-37A (Taken over by SLC-37B)
    • Saturn 1 (Historically)
    • Saturn 1B (Unused)
  • SLC-43 (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Super Loki ((Historically)
  • SLC-44 (Replaced with submarine turning basin)
    • Dragon (Missile) ((Historically)
  • SLC-45 (Replaced with SLC-46)
    • Roland (Cancelled)

Kennedy Space Center

  • LC-39A
    • Saturn V (Historically)
    • Space Shuttle (Historically)
    • Ares V (Canceled)
    • Falcon 9
    • Falcon Heavy
    • Starship (In Development)
  • LC-39B
    • Saturn V (Historically)
    • Saturn IB (Historically)
    • Space Shuttle (Historically)
    • Ares I-X (Historically)
    • Space Launch System
  • LC-39C (Canceled)
  • LC-48
    • No tenants
  • LC-49 (Planned)

Pacific Spaceport Complex – Kodiak

Vandenberg Space Force Base

Wallops Flight Facility

Falcon Heavy flies again; Dual-booster landing from USSF-44 sends sonic booms across the space coast

Avatar for Michael Grimes Nov 1 2022 - 7:20 am PT
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Three years after its last flight, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy has returned to flight on this cloudy Florida morning. The primary payload of this launch is the classified USSF-44 satellite, with two other satellites co-manifested. The launch occurred on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. Eastern Time, successfully delivering the satellites to their targeted geosynchronous orbit.

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Launch Spotlight: Artemis 1 – NASA set to launch the Orion capsule to the Moon

Avatar for Jared Locke Aug 17 2022 - 9:34 am PT
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NASA is set to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the first time from LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 29, 2022, with the two-hour launch window opening at 8:33 a.m. EDT. This launch will carry the Orion capsule on the Artemis 1 mission to a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon for a full, uncrewed test.

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Launch Spotlight: SBIRS GEO-6 – ULA set to launch new missile detection satellite

Avatar for Jared Locke Aug 4 2022 - 3:29 am PT
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 421 rocket will launch the sixth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-6) mission for the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command to a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The target liftoff time is no earlier than 6:29 a.m. EDT on August 4, 2022, from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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Launch Spotlight: CRS-25 – SpaceX set to launch the 25th space station resupply mission

Avatar for Jared Locke Jul 11 2022 - 4:55 pm PT
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SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022, at 8:44 p.m. EDT. This launch will carry a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station carrying food, science, and other supplies for the Commercial Resupply Services 25 (CRS-25) mission.

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NASA CAPSTONE: Rocket Lab launches first official Artemis mission to the Moon – Launch Spotlight

Avatar for Seth Kurkowski Jun 28 2022 - 2:55 am PT
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Rocket Lab launched NASA’s CAPSTONE mission to the Moon Tuesday, June 28 at 5:55 a.m. EDT. The mission was originally planned to launch from Rocket Lab’s Wallops Island but due to the pad not being ready for service the mission was moved to LC-1 at the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.

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Launch Spotlight: USSF-12 ULA set to launch U.S. National Security mission aboard an Atlas V 541

Avatar for Jared Locke Jun 26 2022 - 1:23 pm PT
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket will launch the USSF-12 mission for the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command to a Geosynchronous Orbit. The target liftoff time is no earlier than 6 p.m. EDT on June 30, 2022, from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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Launch Spotlight: Starliner OFT-2 – CST-100 Starliner’s second test flight to the ISS

Avatar for Jared Locke May 19 2022 - 3:54 pm PT
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V N22 rocket will launch the Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station for its second test flight. The target liftoff time is 6:54 PM EDT on May 19, 2022, from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

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