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The Churchill Rocket Research Range is a Canadian former rocket launch site located 23 kilometres (14 mi) [1] outside Churchill, Manitoba. [2] The facility was used by Canada and the United States beginning in 1954 for sub-orbital launches of sounding rockets to study the upper atmosphere. The site was scientifically beneficial due to lying in ...
Overview of rocket launch sites worldwide – astronautix.com. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral – nasa.gov. Description and map of Cape Canaveral – astronautix.com. Missile Range Tool – Carlos Labs. Baikonur – russianspaceweb.com. Description and map of Baikonur – astronautix.com. Description and map of Kourou – astronautix.com.
Launch site Serial Mission Outcome Apogee Remarks September 1959 BB-I Churchill: PTV-1 Test flight Success 100 kilometres (62 mi) Maiden flight of Black Brant I 12 October 1960 BB-II Churchill: CC-2A-13 Auroral research Success 100 kilometres (62 mi) Maiden flight of Black Brant II 12 October 1960 BB-II Churchill: CC-2A-14 Auroral research Success
The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde, [a] HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office (Heereswaffenamt). [3]: 85 Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket.
Orbital rocket launch. Website. www.maritimelaunch.com. Maritime Launch Services (MLS) is a Canadian space transport services company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nova Scotia, Canada. MLS will rely on Ukrainian Cyclone-4M rockets by Pivdenne Design Office to launch polar and Sun-synchronous orbit from Canso, Nova Scotia.
v. t. e. The Eastern Range (ER) is an American rocket range (Spaceport) that supports missile and rocket launches from the two major launch heads located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida. [1]: 5 [2] The range has also supported Ariane launches from the Guiana Space Centre as well as launches from ...
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 (also known as Mahia Launch Complex or Spaceport) is a commercial spaceport located close to Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of Māhia Peninsula, on the east coast of New Zealand 's North Island. It is owned and operated by private spaceflight company Rocket Lab and supports launches of the company's Electron ...
Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) (IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL, FAA LID: WAL) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland ...