Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!eder From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: launch sites Message-ID: <265@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 15:23:56 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.265 Posted: Wed Dec 12 15:23:56 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 06:40:18 EST References: <4326@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 75 > I have often wondered how many launch-to-earth-orbit capable facilities > there are in the world. How many Eastern Block, Western Block, and > non aligned? It would really be interesting to develop a list of > these facilities along with their locations and launch capable > descriptions. Maybe we could expand this to include support facilities > for research, development, control, etc. > Launch Sites: US Kennedy Space Center/ Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near Titusville, Florida Space Shuttle Titan III Atlas Delta Pershing (missile) Trident (missile) Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Lompoc, California Minuteman III (missile) Titan II Delta Atlas Scout Space Shuttle (completion 1985) Wallops Station, Virginia Scout USSR Baikonur Cosmodrome (46 N 63 E) Soyuz Proton Heavy Lift? Volgograd Station ( 48 30 N 46 E) SS-5/C-1 Northern Cosmodrome ( 63 N 40 E) A-1 A-2 A-2-e B-1 C-1 F-1-m F-2 China East Wind Center ( 41 N 100 E) CSL-1 CSL-2 CSL-X3 Italy San Marco Platform ( 3 S 40 E) Scout France Guiana Space Center ( 5 N 52 W) Diamant Ariane Japan Kagoshima Space Center ( 31 N 131 E) Mu Osaki Launch Site ( 30 N 131 E) N-1 N-2 H-1 (scheduled 1985) India Sriharikota Launching Range ( 14 N 80 E) SLV-3 Landing Sites: Space Shuttle Lat Long Runway Size(ft) Edwards Air Force Base, Cal. 117.8W 34.9N 26500x300 Northrup Strip, New Mexico 106.4W 32.9N 15000x300 Kennedy Space Center, Florida 80.7W 28.6N 15000x300 Rota Naval Station, Spain 6.4W 36.6N 12100x200 Kadena Air Base, Okinawa 127.8E 26.3N 12000x300 Hickham Air Force Base, Hawaii 158.0W 21.3N 12000x200 Yoff Intl., Dakar, Senegal 17.4W 14.7N 11450x148 Dani Eder / Boeing Aerospace Company / ssc-vax!eder / (206)773-4545