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Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 1. INTERNATIONAL 00 Odyssey Launch Platform-Sea Launch 00 Sea Launch Facilities 00 The Sea Launch System 00 Odyssey Launches 00 2. AUSTRALIA 00 Asia Pacific Space Centre 00 Future Launch Operations 00 The Aurora Launch Vehicle 00 Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia 00 History of Woomera Rocket Range 00 WRESAT, Australia's First Satellite 00 ELDO, European Launcher Development Organization 00 Launch Areas and Facilities 00 Missiles Launched from Woomera 00 3. BRAZIL 00 Alcantara Launch Center (CLA) 00 History of Alcantara 00 Facilities at Alcantara 00 Explosion at Alcantara 00 Brazil's Successful Rocket Launch 00 4. CANADA 00 Churchill Rocket Research Range/Fort Churchill 00 History of the Range 00 Black Brant Rocket 00 5. CHINA 00 China Launch Centers 00 A Brief History of China's Launch Centers 00 Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center 00 Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center 00 Xichang Satellite Launch Center 00 China's Launch Vehicles 00 6. FRANCE 00 Centre InterArm¿es d'Essais d'Engins Sp¿ciaux (CIEES) (Inter-Arms Special Weapons Test Center) 00 History of CIEES 00 Centre Spatial Guyanais (Guiana Space Center) (CSG) 00 History of Europe's Spaceport 00 Guiana's New Payload Preparation Complex 00 The Ariane 5 Rocket 00 Vega: Europe's Small Launcher 00 Recent Ariane Launches 00 7. INDIA 00 Satish Dhawan Space Center (SHAR) 00 Before Satish Dhawan 00 Accomplishments and Future Launch Objectives 00 METSAT 00 Disaster at Satish Dhawan 00 Launches from Satish Dhawan 00 8. ISRAEL 00 Palmachim AFB 00 Palmachim History 00 The Shavit Launcher 00 The Arrow Missile 00 9. ITALY 00 Malindi Ground Station 00 Italy's Remote Ground Station 00 The Swift Observatory 00 Salto di Quirra 00 Salto di Quirra and Launches 00 San Marco Equatorial Range at San Marco, Kenya 00 The Range 00 The San Marco Project Research Center 00 10. JAPAN 000 Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) 000 The Most Beautiful Launch Site in the World 000 Launches from Tanegashima 000 Uchinoura Space Center (USC)/ Kagoshima Launch Center (KSC) 000 Space Center at Uchinoura 000 Recent Launches at Uchinoura 000 11. KAZAKHSTAN 000 Baikonur Cosmodrome 000 The World's Oldest Space Facility 000 Cosmodrome Regions and Facilities 000 Soyuz Launch Sites 000 Zenit Launch Areas 000 N1 and Energia-Buran Launch Sites 000 The Proton Rocket 000 The Nedelin Disaster 000 Recent Accidents at Baikonur 000 12. NORTH KOREA 000 Chiha-ri Taepodong Base 000 Musudan-ri Test Range 000 13. NORWAY 000 And¿ya Rocket Range 000 Northmost Home for Sounding Rockets 000 ALOMAR (Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research) 000 Svalrak 000 14. RUSSIA/USSR 000 Kapustin Yar Cosmodrome 000 Russia's First Rocket Center 000 A-4 Launches at Kapustin Yar 000 Plesetsk Cosmodrome 000 The World's First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Base 000 Launch Complexes at Plesetsk 000 Disasters at Plesetsk 000 Recent Launches at Plesetsk 000 Svobodny Cosmodrome 000 Russia's Newest Cosmodrome 000 The Start-1 Launch Vehicle 000 Facilities at Svobodny 000 Launches at Svobodny 000 15. SPAIN 000 El Arenosillo 000 Spain's Rocket Testing Range 000 Rockets Launched from CEDEA 000 Moron and Zaragoza Air Bases 000 Moron Air Base 000 Zaragoza Air Base 000 Moron and Zaragoza as Space Shuttle Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) Sites 000 16. SOUTH AFRICA 000 Overberg Test Range 000 History and Facilities 000 South Africa's RSA-3 000 17. SWEDEN 000 Esrange 000 Esrange Background 000 Recent Launch Campaigns 000 18. UNITED KINGDOM 000 Aberporth Range 000 DERA's Test Range 000 19. UNITED STATES: ALASKA and CALIFORNIA 000 SSI Commercial Spaceport 000 The United States' First Privately Owned Commercial Spaceport 000 Facility Infrastructure 000 Kodiak Launch Complex (KLC), Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation (AADC) 000 Alaska's Spaceport 000 Launch Support Facilities and Operations 000 Launch Complex Facilities 000 Launches at KLC 000 Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) 000 An Introduction to Vandenberg 000 Launches at Vandenberg 000 The Historic Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg 000 20. UNITED STATES: FLORIDA and ISLAND POSSESSIONS 000 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) 000 Beacon of the United States Manned and Unmanned Space Program 000 Historical Significance of CCAFS 000 Historical Facilities at CCAFS 000 Kennedy Space Center (KSC) 000 History of Kennedy Space Center 000 Early Missions: Mercury to Apollo-Soyuz 000 Space Shuttles 000 Propellants for the Shuttle 000 Facilities and Operations 000 Launch Complex 39, Pads A and B 000 Landing the Space Shuttle at KSC 000 Kwajalein Missile Range (KMR)/Reagan Test Site (RTS) 000 Range at Marshall Islands 000 Operations at the Ballistic Test Site 000 Patrick Air Force Base (PAFB) 000 The Long Range Proving Ground 000 Recent Launches at Patrick 000 Poker Flat Research Range 000 History and Facilities 000 Home of Sounding Rockets 000 Recent Launches at the Range 000 Spaceport Florida 000 The "Other" Florida Spaceport 000 Facilities at Spaceport Florida 000 21. UNITED STATES: NEW MEXICO 000 White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), Proving Grounds 000 The Corporal Program 000 The V-2 000 Trinity Site-Explosion of the First Atomic Bomb 000 The Bumper Project-America's First Two-Stage Rocket 000 WSMR Launch Facilities 000 The Space Shuttle at White Sands 000 Rockets and Missiles at White Sands 000 22. UNITED STATES: VIRGINIA 000 Dryden Flight Research Center 000 Dryden Spaceflight Support 000 Space Shuttle Flight Testing at Dryden 000 Virginia Space Flight Center (VSFC) and Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) 000 History of Virginia Space Flight Center and Wallops Flight Facility 000 Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) 000 23. United States FUTURE COMMERCIAL LAUNCH SITES: MIDWEST and WEST 000 Grant County Spaceport, Washington 000 Spaceport Washington 000 Mojave Spaceport, Mojave Desert, California 000 Spaceport in the Desert 000 Oklahoma Spaceport 000 Spaceport at Burns Flat 000 Rocketplane XP 000 Wisconsin Spaceport 000 The Spaceport at Sheboygan 000 Rockets for Schools 000 24. United States FUTURE COMMERCIAL LAUNCH SITES: SOUTHWEST 000 Gulf Coast Regional Spaceport, Texas 000 The Spaceport Near Houston 000 First Amateur Rocket to Reach Space 000 The STARS Program 000 Nevada Test Site/Nevada Spaceport 000 A Multi-Purpose Range 000 The Spaceport 000 Pecos County/West Texas Spaceport 000 Las Escaleras a las Estrellas 000 The V-Airship 000 South Texas Spaceport 000 South Texas History 000 25. Conclusion 000_ Appendix A: Cosmos Launch Tables 000 Appendix B: Fort Churchill/Churchill Range Launch Log 000 Appendix C: Guiana Milestones 000 Appendix D: Kennedy Space Center Launch Chronology 000 Early Manned Missions 000 U.S. Human Space Flight Log 000 Unmanned Space Missions: Notable Spacecraft Launches at Kennedy 000 Appendix E: White Sands Missile Range Chronology 000 Appendix F: White Sands Missile Range Launch Tables 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Launch complexes (Astronautics) -- Directories.