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The Space race
- USA:
- Russian:
- German engineers in Russia.
- A4/V2 launches -
- R missiles
- UK: Operation Backfire V-2
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Winged rocket planes
Suborbital - Sounding Rockets
- USA:
- Russian:
- Suborbital/Sounding rockets: R-1 till R-11
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Orbital - Launch Rockets
World Launch vehicles overview -
Comparison of orbital launch systems.
- Russian:
- USA:
- Rockets Upper Stages (Ref:#124)
- Commercial rocket launches: NEW UPDATED
- Rockets from other countries: NEW UPDATED
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Military Missiles & Defense Rockets
Launch Sites
- Location launchbases
Australia: Christmas Island
Brazil: Alcantara - Barreira do Inferno
Canada: Fort Churchill
China: Jingyu - Jiuquan - Taiyuan -
Wuzhai - Xichang
France/Algeria: Hammaguir-Colomb Bechar-Reggane - Hammaguir
France/Guyana: Kourou
Germany: Kummersdorf - Peenemunde
India: Sriharikota
Iran: Semnan
Iraq: Al Anbar
Israel: Palmachim
Italy: San Marco
Japan: Kagoshima - Tanegashima
Korea Nord: Musudan
Korea South: Naro Space Center
Russia: Baikonur - Barents Sea - Kapustin Yar -
Plesetsk - Svobodniy
Spain: Gran Canaria
UK-Australia: Woomera
USA: Cape Canaveral - China Lake - Edwards -
Inyukern - Kodiak Launch Complex - KSC
Matagorda Island - Point Arguello - Point Mugu -
Sea Launch - Vandenberg
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Wallops Island -
White Sands
USAF Silo bases: Walker AFB - Altus AFB
- Operating Launch sites:
- Ba = Baikonur (Tyuratam, NIIP-5, GIK-5), Tyuratam, Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
- CC = Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA USA
- CCK = NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA USA
- Jq = Jiuquan Space Center, Inner Mongolia, China China
- Ka = Kagoshima Space Center / Uchinoura Space Center, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan Japan
- Ko = Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), Kourou, French Guiana French Guiana
- Kw = Kwajalein Atoll
- Mo = Mojave Air and Space Port, Mojave, California, USA USA
- OnS = Onenui Station, Mahia, Wairoa, North Island, New Zealand New Zealand
- Pl = Plesetsk (NIIP-53, GIK-1, GNIIP), Russia Russia
- Sem = Semnan Satellite Launch Center, Semnan province, Iran Iran
- Sr = Satish Dhawan Space Center (Sriharikota Space Center), Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India India
- Ta = Tanegashima Space Center, Tanegashima, Japan Japan
- TY = Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC), Wuzhai, Shanxi, China China
- Va = Vandenberg AFB, California, USA USA
- Vo = Vostochniy, Amurskaya Oblast', Russia Russia
- We = Wenchang Space Launch Center (WSLC), Hainan, China China
- WI = Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, USA USA
- Xi = Xichang Space Center (Songlin), Sichuan, China
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References -
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