Cape Canaveral SFS
The busiest launch site on Earth. This US Space Force station on Florida's Atlantic coast flies most Falcon 9 missions from SLC-40, Atlas V and Vulcan from SLC-41 and New Glenn from LC-36, and has been active since 1950.
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Every spaceport on the T-Rocket map: 32 launch sites in 18 countries, what flies from each of them, and which liftoff is scheduled next. See them all on the interactive map, or as one list in the launch schedule.
Which spaceport launches next?
Grouped by launch site, earliest liftoff first. Times are UTC on the server and are converted to your local time by your browser.
| SPACEPORT | NEXT LIFTOFF | ROCKET · MISSION | PROVIDER | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA Space Launch Complex 4E 3 more scheduled | 01 Aug 03:08 UTC | Falcon 9 Block 5 Starlink Group 17-52 | SpX | SUCCESS |
| Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China Commercial LC-1 3 more scheduled | 04 Aug 08:50 UTC | Long March 8A Unknown Payload | CASC | GO |
| Haiyang Oriental Spaceport Haiyang offshore launch location | 05 Aug 02:35 UTC | Smart Dragon 3 Unknown Payload | CHNR | GO |
| Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Space Launch Complex 40 3 more scheduled | 05 Aug 07:42 UTC | Falcon 9 Block 5 BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8) | SpX | GO |
| Andøya Spaceport Orbital Launch Pad | 06 Aug 00:00 UTC | Spectrum Onward and Upward | ISAR | TBD |
| Tanegashima Space Center, Japan Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 | 06 Aug 19:30 UTC | H3-22 Michibiki 7 (QZS-7) | MHI | GO |
| Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana Ariane Launch Area 4 1 more scheduled | 27 Aug 00:00 UTC | Ariane 62 MTG-I2 | ASA | TBD |
| Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Launch Complex 39A | 30 Aug 11:26 UTC | Falcon Heavy Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope | SpX | GO |
| Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand Unknown Pad 2 more scheduled | 31 Aug 00:00 UTC | Electron LOXSAT 1 | RL | TBD |
| Sea Launch ADD Offshore launch platform | 31 Aug 00:00 UTC | Mir Demo Flight | ADD | TBD |
| Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China Launch Area 96B | 31 Aug 00:00 UTC | Zhuque-3 Flight 2 | LS | TBD |
| Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan 31/6 | 09 Sep 16:10 UTC | Soyuz 2.1b Progress MS-35 (96P) | RFSA | TBC |
Last updated 01 Aug 2026 09:20 UTC · a launch is scheduled at 12 of the spaceports listed below.
ALL LAUNCH SITES ON THE MAP
These are the 32 spaceports T-Rocket shows as fixed markers. A site appears here whether or not it has a launch on the books right now, so the list stays the same in quiet weeks. Sea launch platforms move, and are listed under the port they operate from.
United States · 6 sites
Kennedy Space Center
NASA's historic Florida spaceport. Pad 39A, used for Apollo and the Space Shuttle, is leased by SpaceX for crewed Dragon and Falcon Heavy launches; a Starship pad is under construction.
Vandenberg SFB
US west-coast Space Force base in California. Its geography allows launches straight south into polar and sun-synchronous orbits. Starlink polar shells and many Earth-observation missions fly from here.
Starbase
SpaceX's own spaceport and factory at Boca Chica, Texas, home of the fully reusable Starship/Super Heavy. Roads are closed before each test; the site is being expanded for orbital flights.
Wallops / MARS
NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, home to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS). Launches Antares/Cygnus cargo missions to the ISS and Rocket Lab's US Electron flights.
Kodiak PSCA
Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska: a commercial pad for small polar launches (Astra, ABL) and suborbital missile tests, run by Alaska Aerospace.
Russia and Kazakhstan · 4 sites
Baikonur
The world's first and largest spaceport, in the Kazakh steppe, leased by Russia. Sputnik, Gagarin and every crewed Soyuz to the ISS launched here since 1957.
Plesetsk
Russia's northern military cosmodrome, south of Arkhangelsk. The world's busiest launch site during the Cold War; today it flies Soyuz and Angara for military and polar missions.
Vostochny
Russia's newest cosmodrome in the far-eastern Amur region, opened 2016 to reduce dependence on Baikonur. Launches Soyuz-2 and, increasingly, Angara rockets.
Kapustin Yar
Historic Russian missile and rocket range near the Volga, active since 1947. Used for small satellite launches and military test flights.
China · 5 sites
Jiuquan
China's oldest launch centre, in the Gobi Desert. All Chinese crewed Shenzhou missions launch here, plus many Long March and commercial rockets.
Taiyuan
Chinese launch centre in Shanxi province, specialised in polar and sun-synchronous orbits: weather, remote-sensing and Starlink-style constellation satellites.
Xichang
Chinese centre in Sichuan for geostationary missions: communications and BeiDou navigation satellites on Long March 3 rockets.
Wenchang
China's newest coastal spaceport on Hainan island. Its low latitude and sea access allow the heavy Long March 5, used for lunar, Mars and space-station-module launches.
Haiyang (sea)
Chinese sea-launch port in Shandong. Rockets are shipped out and launched from a barge in the Yellow Sea, allowing flexible orbits without overflying land.
Japan · 3 sites
Tanegashima
Japan's main spaceport on a southern island, often called the most beautiful in the world. Launches the H-IIA/H3 rockets with science, cargo and reconnaissance payloads.
Uchinoura
Japanese science launch site in Kagoshima, used for solid-fuel Epsilon rockets and scientific and planetary probes.
Taiki
Hokkaido Spaceport in northern Japan, base of private company Interstellar Technologies and its MOMO/ZERO rockets, Japan's commercial New Space hub.
India · 2 sites
Sriharikota SDSC
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India's primary spaceport on an island off Andhra Pradesh. ISRO launches PSLV, GSLV and the new SSLV from here, including Chandrayaan and Mars missions.
Kulasekarapattinam
New second Indian spaceport of ISRO / IN-SPACe in Tamil Nadu, dedicated to small launch vehicles (SSLV) heading to sun-synchronous orbits. Under construction since 2024. No launch records under this name in Launch Library 2 yet.
Europe · 5 sites
Kourou CSG
Europe's Guiana Space Centre, near the equator in French Guiana. The low latitude boosts payload to geostationary orbit. Home of Ariane 6 and Vega rockets (ESA/Arianespace).
Esrange
Swedish space centre above the Arctic Circle near Kiruna, long used for sounding rockets and balloons, now being developed for small orbital launches.
Andøya
Norwegian spaceport on an Arctic island, Europe's first operational mainland orbital launch site, flying small rockets into polar orbits.
SaxaVord
UK spaceport on Unst in the Shetland Islands, Britain's first licensed vertical orbital launch site, for small polar-orbit rockets.
El Arenosillo
Spanish test range on the Atlantic coast near Huelva, used by PLD Space for its MIURA suborbital and small-launch rockets.
Rest of the world · 7 sites
Mahia LC-1
Rocket Lab's private Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, the world's first fully private orbital launch site, flying the small Electron rocket.
Semnan
Iran's national spaceport (Imam Khomeini Space Centre) in the northern desert, used for Simorgh and Qased satellite-launch vehicles.
Sohae
North Korea's Sohae Satellite Launching Station near the Chinese border, used for Chollima/Unha rockets carrying reconnaissance satellites.
Naro
South Korea's Naro Space Center on the south coast, home of the domestically built Nuri (KSLV-II) rocket.
Palmachim
Israeli airbase south of Tel Aviv. Israel launches Shavit rockets westward over the Mediterranean, a rare retrograde orbit chosen to avoid overflying neighbours.
Alcântara
Brazil's equatorial spaceport on the Atlantic coast. Its near-equator location is ideal for efficient launches; now opening to commercial small-launch operators.
Bowen
Australian commercial spaceport in Queensland, base for Gilmour Space and its Eris rocket, Australia's bid to launch its own satellites.
LAUNCH SITES, EXPLAINED
Why do so many rockets launch from Florida?
Two reasons, and both are geography. The closer a pad sits to the equator, the more speed a rocket gets for free from the rotation of the Earth, which means more payload for the same vehicle. And a pad on an east coast can fly east over open ocean, so nothing falls on anyone if a flight goes wrong. Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center have both, which is why the United States put its main range there in the 1950s and why most Falcon 9 flights still start from that stretch of coast.
Why does Vandenberg launch to the south instead?
Because it is aiming at a different kind of orbit. Polar and sun-synchronous orbits pass over both poles, so a rocket has to fly north or south rather than east. From the Californian coast a rocket can fly straight south over the Pacific without crossing populated land. That is the whole reason a second American range exists on the west coast, and it is why Earth-observation and radar satellites lift off from Vandenberg rather than Florida.
What is a sea launch platform?
A converted ship or barge that carries the rocket out to sea and launches it there. It buys the same advantage as an equatorial site without needing land: the platform can be moved to the latitude that suits the target orbit, and the drop zones are open water. China operates this way from Haiyang on the Shandong coast, and such launches appear in the data under the port, not under a fixed pad.
Which sites can the public visit?
That differs from site to site, and it changes. Some ranges are active military bases with no public access at all, some have a visitor complex with paid tickets, and some allow viewing only from public roads and beaches nearby. T-Rocket does not publish visiting advice it has not verified against the operator, so check the official site of the operator before travelling.
Where do the launch times on this page come from?
From Launch Library 2, refetched by the server every five minutes and written into this page as plain HTML, so it reads the same for people and for machines. The descriptions of the sites are written by T-Rocket. What every value means and how fresh it is, is spelled out under data sources.
Launch data: Launch Library 2 · The Space Devs,
refreshed about every five minutes. Site descriptions and coordinates by T-Rocket. All information
without guarantee: launch times change frequently, and only the launch provider can confirm a launch.
Last reviewed 2026-08-01.
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