Spaceports With Achieved Satellite Launches
The following is a table of spaceports with a documented achieved launch to orbit. The table is sorted according to the time of the first launch that achieved satellite orbit insertion. The first column gives the geographical location. Operations from a different country are indicated in the last column. A launch is counted as one also in cases where the payload consists of multiple satellites.
| Spaceport | Years (orbital) |
Launches to orbit or inter- planetary |
Launch vehicles (operators) |
Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baikonur Cosmodrome, Baikonur/Tyuratam, Kazakhstan | 1957- | >1000 | R-7/Soyuz, Kosmos, Proton, Zenit, Energia | |
| Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA | 1958- | >400 | Delta, Scout, Atlas, Titan, Saturn, Athena, Falcon 9 | |
| Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA | 1959- | >500 | Delta, Scout, Atlas, Titan, Taurus, Athena, Minotaur | |
| Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA | 1961-1985 | 19 | Scout | 6, 13 |
| Kapustin Yar Cosmodrome, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia | 1962- | >100 | Kosmos | |
| Hammaguir French Special Weapons Test Centre, Algeria | 1965–1967 | 4 | Diamant A (France) | Diamant |
| Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia | 1966- | >1500 | Soyuz, Kosmos | |
| San Marco platform, Broglio Space Centre, Malindi, Kenya | 1967–1988 | 9 | Scout (ASI and Sapienza, Italy) | Broglio |
| Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA | 1967- | 151 | 17 Saturn, 134 Space Shuttle | Saturn, STS |
| Woomera Prohibited Area, South Australia | 1967, 1971 | 2 | Redstone (Wresat), Black Arrow (UK Prospero X-3) | Wresat, X-3 |
| Uchinoura Space Center (Kagoshima), Japan | 1970–2006 | 27 | Mu | |
| Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana | 1970- | 210 | 7 Diamant, 199 Ariane, 3 Soyuz-2, 1 Vega | see 4 rockets |
| Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China | 1970- | 49 | Long March | List LM |
| Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR), Andhra Pradesh, India | 1980- | 27 | 3 SLV, 2 ASLV, 19 PSLV, 3 GSLV | see 4 rockets |
| Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China | 1984- | 71 | Long March | List LM |
| Tanegashima Space Center, Japan | 1986- | 34 | 9 H-I, 5 H-II, 20 H-IIA | see 3 rockets |
| Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China | 1988- | 39 | Long March | List LM |
| Palmachim Air Force Base, Israel | 1988- | 6 | Shavit | Shavit |
| Various airport runways (B52, Stargazer) | 1990- | 35 | Pegasus (Orbital Sciences Corporation) | Pegasus |
| Svobodny Cosmodrome, Amur Oblast, Russia | 1997–2006 | 5 | Start-1 | |
| Delta class submarine, Barents Sea | 1998- | 2 | Shtil' (Russia) | Shtil' |
| Ocean Odyssey mobile platform, Pacific Ocean | 1999– | 30 | Zenit-3SL (Sea Launch) | Sea Launch |
| Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA | 2001- | 3 | 1 Athena, 2 Minotaur IV | Kodiak |
| Yasny Cosmodrome (Dombarovsky), Orenburg Oblast, Russia | 2006- | 5 | Dnepr-1 | Dnepr-1 |
| Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Virginia, USA | 2006- | 4 | Minotaur I | MARS |
| Omelek, Marshall Islands | 2008- | 2 | Falcon 1 | Falcon 1 |
| Semnan, Iran | 2009- | 3 | Safir | Safir |
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