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Rocket launch site - Definition |
| Related Words: Asp, Atlas, Bullpup, Cajun, Corporal, Corvus, Crossbow, Dart, Deacon, Delta, Diamant, Dove, Falcon, Genie, Hawk |
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A rocket launch site is a facility for the launch of rockets. It has usually one or more launchpads or suitable sites to mount a transportable launchpad. For rockets with liquid propellant, suitable storage facilities and in some cases for the production are necessary.
A rocket launch site is built as far as possible away from settlements in order to keep the dangers for people as low as possible, if a rocket explodes. In most cases a rocket launch site is close to the sea, because the sea is a very good watchable area for the undangerous drop of rocket parts.
Rocket launch sites for he launch of satellites and interplanetary probes are called spaceports. The best known spaceports are Cape Canaveral in the USA, Baikonur in Russia and Kourou in French Guyana.
In Europe there are only launch sites for suborbital rockets. Esrange and Salto di Quirra are the most important.
Germany has nowadays no rocket launch site, but had after 1936 three times a rocket launch site. These were from 1936 to 1945 Peenemünde (inclusive the Greifswalder Oie) for testing (but not for military use!) of the A4-rocket, from 1957 to 1964 the mud-flats near Cuxhaven , where the Hermann Oberth society and the Berthold-Seliger-Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft launched many rocket types as the Kumulus and the Cirrus and in Zingst, where there was from 1988 to 1992 a launch site for Russian rockets of the type MMR06-M
Poland launched in the 70ies soundng rockets of the type Meteor from military training camps near Leba and Ustka.
Launch sites for orbital rockets
Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Europe
Abandonded launch sites in Europe
Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Asia
Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Africa
Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Australia
Launch sites for suborbital rockets in North America
Launch sites for suborbital rockets in South America
Launch sites for suborbital rockets in Antarctica and island far away from continents
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Example Usage of Rocket |
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