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Loading contentThe pads and complexes where rockets lift off, grouped under their launch sites.
The Baikonur complex built for the Zenit launch vehicle.
A Baikonur complex used for Proton heavy-lift launches.
The first Ariane launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre, used by the early Ariane 1–3 vehicles.
The Guiana Space Centre complex that launched every Ariane 5 mission.
The Guiana Space Centre complex built as the new launch pad for Ariane 6.
The first ISRO pad at Sriharikota, used for the PSLV and SSLV.
The historic Baikonur pad that launched Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin, and for decades the departure point for Soyuz crews to orbit.
The Jiuquan complex for China's human-rated Long March 2F, launching Shenzhou crews to the Tiangong station.
The historic Kennedy Space Center pad that launched the Apollo 11 Saturn V and many Space Shuttle flights, now leased to SpaceX for Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship operations.
A Kennedy Space Center pad used for Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle launches and rebuilt as a clean-pad for NASA's Space Launch System.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport pad at Wallops used by Northrop Grumman's Antares to launch Cygnus cargo missions.
SpaceX's orbital launch and catch complex at Starbase for the fully reusable Starship and Super Heavy.
The Plesetsk complex used for Angara launches in northern Russia.
The second ISRO pad at Sriharikota, used for the GSLV and LVM3, including the Chandrayaan and Gaganyaan missions.
A Cape Canaveral complex long used by the Delta family, including the Delta II that launched NASA's Mars rovers.
A Cape Canaveral complex that launched Saturn IB flights and later served the Delta IV and Delta IV Heavy.
SpaceX's primary Falcon 9 pad at Cape Canaveral — the workhorse complex for most Falcon 9 launches.
A Cape Canaveral complex used for Titan launches and now the home pad of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V and Vulcan Centaur.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 pad at Vandenberg for polar and Sun-synchronous launches on the U.S. West Coast.
The Guiana Space Centre complex for the Vega and Vega-C small launchers, on the site of the former Ariane 1 pad.
The coastal Wenchang complex for the heavy-lift Long March 5.
The Wenchang complex for the Long March 7, which launches Tianzhou cargo missions.
A Xichang complex widely used for Long March 3B launches to geostationary transfer orbit.
The Tanegashima complex for Japan's large liquid launch vehicles — the H-II, H-IIA/H-IIB, and H3.