28 spaceports and launch sites worldwide

FAA-licensed horizontal launch spaceport at Cecil Airport, Jacksonville, Florida, operated by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority (LSO 09-012).

County-owned airport near Watkins, Colorado, holding an FAA launch site operator licence (LSO 18-017) for horizontal launch and suborbital recovery.

FAA-licensed horizontal launch spaceport at Space Coast Regional Airport, Titusville, Florida, operated by the Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority (LSO 20-019).

FAA-licensed commercial spaceport at Ellington Airport, Houston — hosts Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines and Collins Aerospace facilities.

US commercial airport and FAA-licensed orbital reentry site (RSO 22-001, 2022) — first commercial airport approved to land returning spacecraft such as Dream Chaser.

State-owned spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia — operates launch pads used by Rocket Lab, Northrop Grumman and Firefly next to NASA Wallops.

City of Midland airport in Texas licensed by the FAA as a horizontal launch spaceport (LSO 14-015) — first spaceport co-located with a Part 139 commercial airport.

FAA-licensed spaceport and airport in California's Mojave Desert — hosts flight test and rocket development firms such as Scaled Composites.

Oklahoma state authority — operates the FAA-licensed Oklahoma Air & Space Port at Clinton-Sherman Airport in Burns Flat.

US Navy instrumented test range on Kauaʻi supporting surface, air and space operations, including sounding-rocket and orbital launch campaigns.

State-owned Alaskan spaceport on Kodiak Island — provides orbital and suborbital launch and missile test range services to commercial and defence users.

High-latitude sounding rocket range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, owned by the UAF Geophysical Institute and operated under contract with NASA Wallops.

State-owned commercial spaceport in New Mexico — hosts Virgin Galactic suborbital flights and vertical launch tenants in Sierra County.

US offshore spaceport developer — builds mobile sea-based launch and reentry platforms; flew the first commercial rocket launches from US territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexic…

Scottish spaceport on Unst, Shetland — vertical launch site on the Lamba Ness peninsula, formerly Shetland Space Centre (renamed 2021).

Welsh aerospace test site at Llanbedr airfield — designated candidate UK horizontal launch spaceport with its own restricted airspace for flight trials.

UK horizontal-launch spaceport at Cornwall Airport Newquay — first UK spaceport licensee (2022), hosting space and drone operations.

Brazilian Air Force rocket launch centre near Natal — launches sounding rockets and provides tracking support for Alcântara and foreign launches.

Brazilian Air Force spaceport near the equator in Maranhão — hosts sounding rocket campaigns and commercial launches such as Innospace's HANBIT-Nano.

Argentine Air Force rocket range on the Atlantic coast north of Mar del Plata — launch site for national sounding rockets, used for MET-series launches in 2025.

Australian commercial spaceport company — owns and operates the Arnhem Space Centre near Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, which hosted NASA sounding rocket launches in 2022.

Canadian commercial launch site developer — building and operating Spaceport Nova Scotia near Canso for orbital and suborbital launches.

German spaceport company — planned sea-based launch platform in the North Sea for small launchers, with preparation area in Bremerhaven; no launches yet.

Italian horizontal spaceport at Taranto-Grottaglie airport — designated in 2018 for suborbital flights and managed by Aeroporti di Puglia.

Japanese commercial spaceport in Taiki, Hokkaido — built by Taiki town and operated by SPACE COTAN for orbital and suborbital launches.

New Zealand aerospace test site at Kaitorete — Crown and rūnanga joint venture with a 1 km runway hosting horizontal space launch and stratospheric flight tests.

Commercial spaceport near Duqm Special Economic Zone — supports suborbital and orbital launches, rocket testing and space research; backed by NASCOM and Omantel.

Portuguese spaceport consortium — holds Portugal's first spaceport licence for the Malbusca Launch Centre on Santa Maria, Azores.