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U.S. Spaceport Snapshot
By Frank Sietzen
Special to space.com
posted: 03:41 pm ET
09 February 2000

Spaceport Snapshot

Existing U.S. Spaceports

-- Cape Canaveral, Florida

-- Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

-- Wallops Island, Virginia

-- Kodiak Island, Alaska

Federal Test Range

-- White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (propulsion testing, tracking, but not commercial launches)

Proposed U.S. Spaceports

-- Montana Spaceport

-- Nevada Test Site

-- Southwest Regional Spaceport, New Mexico

-- Texas Spaceport

-- Utah Spaceport

-- Woomera Rocket Range Australia (to be operated by U.S. firm, Kistler Aerospace)

-- Mojave Civilian Test Center, Mojave, California

Only the Woomera site has any form of existing rocket pads. These were left over from space launch projects of the 1960s and 1970s.

More than 12 sites are being proposed for locations of the Lockheed Martin VentureStar commercial launcher, but only two will be selected by Lockheed and none have applied for a spaceport license.

 

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