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A spaceport may also include [[runway]]s for takeoff and landing of aircraft to support spaceport operations, or to enable support of [[HTHL]] or [[HTVL]] winged launch vehicles.
 
A spaceport may also include [[runway]]s for takeoff and landing of aircraft to support spaceport operations, or to enable support of [[HTHL]] or [[HTVL]] winged launch vehicles.
  
==Spaceports with achieved human or satellite launches==
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==Spaceports with achieved satellite launches==
  
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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.  
|colspan="4"|'''Spaceports'''
 
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|'''Operator'''||'''Location'''||'''Spaceport'''||'''Longitude'''||'''Latitude'''
 
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|Australia||Australia||[[w:RAAF Woomera Range Comlex|RAAF Woomera Range Complex]]||136°31'56" E||30°57'19" S
 
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|rowspan="3"|China||rowspan="3"|China||[[w:Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center|Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center]]||100°17'54" E||40°57'38" N
 
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|[[w:Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center|Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center]]||111°36'29" E||38°50'57" N
 
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|[[w:Xichang Satellite Launch Center|Xichang Satellite Launch Center]]||102°1'35.6" E||28°14'45.66" N
 
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|rowspan="2"|France||Algeria||[[w:Hamaguir|Hammaguir]]||3°2' W||30°54' N
 
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|Guiana||[[w:Guiana Space Centre|Guiana Space Centre (Kourou)]]||52°46'25" W||5°13'20" N
 
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|India||India||[[w:Satish Dhawan Space Centre|Satish Dhawan Space Centre]]||80°13'49.53" E||13°43'11.78" N
 
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|Iran||Iran||[[w:Semnan Space Center|Semnan Space Center]]||53°55'20" E||35°14'5" N
 
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|Israel||Israel||[[w:Palmachim Airbase|Palmachim Airbase]]||34°41'26" E||31°53'52" N
 
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|Italy||Kenya||[[w:Broglio Space Center|Broglio Space Center and<br>San Marco Platform]]||40°12'45" E||2°56'18" S
 
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|rowspan="2"|Japan||rowspan="2"|Japan||[[w:Tanegashima Space Center|Tanegashima Space Center]]||130°58'12" E||30°24' N
 
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|[[w:Uchinoura Space Center|Uchinoura Space Center]]||131°4'55" E||31°15'7" N
 
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|North Korea||North Korea||[[w:Sohae Satellite Launching Station|Sohae Satellite Launching Station]]||124°42'18" E||39°39'36" N
 
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|rowspan="6"|Russia||Kazakhstan||[[w:Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur Cosmodrome]]||63°18'18" E||45°57'54" N
 
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|rowspan="5"|Russia||[[w:Kapustin Yar (air base)|Kapustin Yar]]||45°43'54 E||48°40'4" N
 
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|[[w:Plesetsk Cosmodrome|Plesetsk Cosmodrome]]||40°34'40" E||62°55'32" N
 
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|[[w:Svobodny Cosmodrome|Svobodny Cosmodrome]]||128° E||51°42' N
 
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|[[w:White Sea|White Sea]]||37°30' E||65°30' N
 
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|[[w:Dombarovsky Air Base|Dombarovsky Air Base (Yasny)]]||59°50'32" E||51°5'38" N
 
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|South Korea||South Korea||[[w:Naro Space Center|Naro Space Center]]||127°32'6" E||34°25'55" N
 
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|rowspan="8"|United States||Marshall Islands||[[w:Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site|Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile<br>Defense Test Site (Kwajalein)]]||167°44' E||8°43' N
 
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|rowspan="7"|United States||[[w:Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Canaveral Space Force Station]]||80°34'40" W||28°29'20" N
 
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|[[w:Kennedy Space Center|Kennedy Space Center]]||80°39'3" W||28°31'27" N
 
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|[[w:Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport|Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport]]||75°28'41" W||37°50'36" N
 
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|[[w:Odyssey (launch platform)|Odyssey (mobile launch platform)]]||||
 
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|[[w:Pacific Spaceport Complex - Alaska|Pacific Spaceport Complex (Kodiak)]]||152°20'16" W||57°26'9" N
 
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|[[w:Vandenberg Space Force Base|Vandenberg Space Force Base]]||120°34'5" W||34°43'58" N
 
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|[[w:Wallops Flight Facility|Wallops Flight Facility]]||75°27'26" W||37°56'19" N
 
|}
 
  
== See also ==
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*Baikonur Cosmodrome
[[Earth spaceports in Orbiter2016]]
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*Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA
 
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*Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA
[[Category: Articles]]
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*Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
[[Category:Real spaceports]]
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*Kapustin Yar Cosmodrome, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia
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*Hammaguir French Special Weapons Test Centre, Algeria
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*Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
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*San Marco platform, Broglio Space Centre, Malindi, Kenya
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*Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
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*Woomera Prohibited Area, South Australia
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*Uchinoura Space Center (Kagoshima), Japan
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*Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana
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*Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China
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*Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR), Andhra Pradesh, India
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*Xichang Satellite Launch Center, China
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*Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
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*Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China
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*Palmachim Air Force Base, Israel
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*Svobodny Cosmodrome, Amur Oblast, Russia
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*Delta class submarine, Barents Sea
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*Ocean Odyssey mobile platform, Pacific Ocean
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*Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, USA
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*Yasny Cosmodrome (Dombarovsky), Orenburg Oblast, Russia
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*Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), Virginia, USA
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*Omelek, Marshall Islands
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*Semnan, Iran
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*Sohae, North Korea

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