Astronomy:List of launch complexes

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This is a list of launch complexes where a Launch complex is a facility from which different types of launch vehicles are launched. It may contain one or more launch pads or suitable sites to mount a transportable launch pad.

  • Ariane Launch Complex (1970—)
  • Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch Complex 1 (1957—)
  • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 1 (1955—1960), used during development of the SM-62 Snark Intercontinental Cruise Missile
  • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 (1961—1968), used by the Apollo program
  • Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 (1962—2005), leased by Blue Origin since 2015 and under reconstruction as a New Glenn launch site
  • Green River Launch Complex (1964—1975) in Utah for Athena/ABRES testing of reentry vehicles to White Sands
  • Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39
  • Osaki Launch Complex (1975—1992)
  • Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (1998—)
  • Point Arguello Launch Complex A (1959—1966) and B (1960—1963) launch facilities for sounding rockets
  • Satish Dhawan Space Centre (1979—)
  • Snark Missile Launch Complex (1959—1961) at the Presque Isle Air Force Base, the SM-62 Snark's only operational launch complex
  • Soyuz Launch Complex (2011—) at the French Guiana Space Centre
  • Taiyuan Launch Complex 1 (1988—2009) for Long March rockets
  • Titan II ICBM Launch Complex 374-7
  • Vandenberg AFB Probe Launch Complex C (1971—1975), sounding rockets launch facility
  • Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 (1960—) Atlas V launch site for high-inclination orbits such as polar or Sun-synchronous ones
  • White Sands Launch Complex 33 (1971—1975), a post-World War II launching site for V-2 rockets listed on the US National Register of Historic Places
  • White Sands Launch Complex 36 (1958—2008), the Cold War site for Black Brant IX and 9CM1 launches, later used for NASA's sounding rockets program
  • White Sands Launch Complex 37 (1964—1992), the Cold War site for Nike Hercules rockets
  • White Sands Launch Complex 38 (1960-1963), the Cold War site for Nike Zeus testing
  • Yoshinobu Launch Complex (1994—)
  • Xichang Launch Complex 2 (1990—)

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