Ruimtehaven-kaart: waar raketten vandaan starten

The busiest launch site on Earth — SpaceX Falcon 9 & Falcon Heavy, ULA Vulcan & Atlas V, Blue Origin New Glenn and NASA crew and science missions.

Volgende lancering: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-95 — 30 jul 2026, 06:37 UTC

SpaceX's Starship — the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown — is built and test-flown here on the South Texas coast.

Volgende lancering: Starship | Flight 13 — 23 jul 2026, 22:45 UTC

America's West-Coast spaceport for polar and sun-synchronous orbits — SpaceX Starlink batches, national-security payloads and Firefly Alpha.

Volgende lancering: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-51 — 25 jul 2026, 14:00 UTC

NASA's Mid-Atlantic range — Rocket Lab Electron, Northrop Grumman Antares cargo runs to the ISS and a steady stream of sounding rockets.

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A remote high-latitude pad on Kodiak Island for small polar launchers and suborbital tests — Firefly Alpha and ABL among them.

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Europe's spaceport, just 5° from the equator — Arianespace Ariane 6 and Vega-C, with the equatorial boost prized for geostationary missions.

Volgende lancering: Ariane 62 | MTG-I2 — 27 aug 2026, 00:00 UTC

Continental Europe's first orbital spaceport, above the Arctic Circle — Isar Aerospace Spectrum flies polar orbits from here.

Volgende lancering: Spectrum | Onward and Upward — 6 aug 2026, 00:00 UTC

The UK's vertical-launch spaceport on the northern tip of Shetland — RFA One and other small polar launchers are preparing to fly.

Volgende lancering: RFA One | Maiden Flight — 31 aug 2026, 00:00 UTC

The world's oldest and largest spaceport — Sputnik and Gagarin flew from here, and Roscosmos still launches Soyuz crews and Proton from its pads.

Volgende lancering: Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P) — 9 sep 2026, 16:10 UTC

Russia's northern military cosmodrome — Soyuz-2 and the newer Angara fly high-inclination and defence payloads from the taiga.

Volgende lancering: Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 19 — 31 jul 2026, 00:00 UTC

Russia's newest cosmodrome in the Far East — Soyuz-2 and Angara loft government and commercial satellites over the Pacific.

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China's crewed-flight gateway in the Gobi desert — Shenzhou missions on Long March 2F, plus commercial rockets from Galactic Energy and LandSpace.

Volgende lancering: Kinetica 1 | Unknown Payload — 23 jul 2026, 23:30 UTC

China's high-orbit workhorse in Sichuan — Long March 3B lofts Beidou navigation and communications satellites to geostationary transfer.

Volgende lancering: Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload — 23 jul 2026, 12:00 UTC

China's polar and sun-synchronous site in Shanxi — Long March vehicles launch Earth-observation and weather satellites into high-inclination orbits.

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China's coastal heavy-lift port on Hainan — Long March 5, 7 and 8 fly Tiangong station modules, Tianwen probes and cargo from here.

Volgende lancering: Long March 7A | Unknown Payload — 29 jul 2026, 11:50 UTC

India's spaceport on the Bay of Bengal — ISRO flies PSLV, GSLV and the heavy LVM3, including Chandrayaan lunar and Gaganyaan crew missions.

Volgende lancering: GSLV Mk II | GISAT-1A (EOS-05) — 30 sep 2026, 00:00 UTC

Japan's main spaceport on a subtropical island — JAXA and Mitsubishi fly the new H3 rocket with HTV-X cargo and flagship science payloads.

Volgende lancering: H3-22 | Michibiki 7 (QZS-7) — 6 aug 2026, 19:30 UTC

Rocket Lab's private peninsula pad in New Zealand — the small Electron rocket launches smallsats to polar and sun-synchronous orbits.

Volgende lancering: Electron | LOXSAT 1 — 31 jul 2026, 00:00 UTC