WHERE ARE THE WORLD’S SPACEPORTS?
Spaceports are dotted all over the world in locations where you’re most likely to find functioning private or state-run space programs. Since they were first developed, 28 spaceports have been used to launch satellites into orbit, with 22 active today.
The Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida, is probably the world’s best known spaceport, The privately operated Rocket Lab Launch Complex One in New Zealand serves as a commercial launch site. The European Space Agency’s Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, The Jiu Quan Satellite Launch Center, China, and the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are among the other best known ones.