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United States: Goddard Test Site, Auburn, Massachusetts: 1925–1930 5 Open field chosen as rocket test site in 1925; launch site of Robert H. Goddard's first liquid fuel rockets beginning on 16 March 1926. [60]: 143 United States
Falcon 9, Flight 3, above SpaceX Cape Canaveral launch complex, May 2012. In 2007, the US Air Force leased Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 to SpaceX to launch the Falcon 9 rocket. [8] During April 2008, construction started on the ground facilities necessary to support the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
As of 2019, SpaceX leased three US government-owned launch sites: Vandenberg SLC 4 in California, and Cape Canaveral SLC-40 and Kennedy Space Center LC39A both in Florida. The launch site is in Cameron County, Texas, [42] approximately 17 miles (27 km) east of Brownsville, with launch flyover range over the Gulf of Mexico. [3]
SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is launched on its sixth test at the company's Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024.
Corn Ranch, commonly referred to as Launch Site One (LSO), is a spaceport owned and operated by Blue Origin which is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of the town of Van Horn, Texas, United States. The 165,000-acre (670 km 2) plot of land was purchased by Jeff Bezos in 2004.
The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.The facility was 24,000 m 2 (260,000 sq ft) in size in early 2015, [3] growing to 28,000 m 2 (300,000 sq ft) by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings.
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Launch complexes of the United States Space Force (3 C, 30 P) SpaceX facilities (15 P) Pages in category "Rocket launch sites in the United States"