Launch Sites & Infrastructure
16,000 Launches Pack a Wallops
Still working Virginia's Eastern Shore has been a center of aerospace research for decades.
Read MoreArianespace Building For The Future With Soyuz Ops Base At Europe’s Spaceport
The preparation of Soyuz’ new operating base is continuing in French Guiana, where the ground-based infrastructure continues to take shape on its launch pad and inside the support facilities at Europe’s Spaceport.
Read MoreAll-Important Integration Finds Herschel + Planck SYLDA’d Into Place
The payload "stack" build-up for Ariane 5's second mission of 2009 marked another milestone with the encapsulation of its lower passenger — the Planck space observatory — in the SYLDA dispenser system.
Read MoreSpaceport America’s First Annual Educational Launch
Spaceport America and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium will conduct their first joint annual educational launch from Spaceport America on May 2nd.
Read MorePlanck Comes Clean After the Flood
The past four weeks have been dedicated to the final Planck spacecraft preparations in the S1B clean room, and is now ready to move to the S5A building for fueling at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou.
Read MoreTrio Of Launch Vehicles Now Residing At Spaceport In French Guiana
Another Ariane 5 launch vehicle has been delivered to French Guiana, underscoring Arianespace's ability to support a sustained mission pace with its workhorse heavy-lift launcher.
Read MoreESA and CNES Sign for Family of Launchers at Guiana Space Centre
It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it! And so the ESA and CNES, the French Space Agency, signed a 435 million Euro contract assuring the availability of the CSG launch range for ESA programs and activities and for the exploitation of Ariane, Vega and Soyuz launchers over the period 2009 to 2013 in beautiful Kourou, French Guiana.
Read MoreWenchang To Welcome New Chinese Launch Center
China construct a new space launch center in the southernmost Hainan Province in the near future, according to military sources.
Read MoreNew Mexico + Sweden Now Have Space In Common
Officials from the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Spaceport Sweden to align with Spaceport America as ‘Sister Spaceports’.
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