Talk:Spaceport

Early discussions

Needs to be rewritten. Parts of the Kennedy Space Center are open to the public and a major tourist attraction. Parts of it are off limits, but so are parts of airports.

At the current state of the art, a spaceport is a heavily secured government facility not open to the general public. Observation of space launches is only permitted from specific areas under heavy security. This is to prevent sabotage and terrorism.

--User:Roadrunner

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This isn't true as far as I know.

Military spaceports are often hardened against nuclear warfare with buried silos supplementing exposed launch facilities.

Vandenberg and Canaveral don't have siloed launch sites, neither do the Russian or Chinese spaceport.

ICBM's are siloed, but those aren't for space launches.

-- User:Roadrunner

Strictly true, but if Orbital starts using Peacekeepers for satellite launches, then it will not be. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 14:36, 2005 Feb 1 (UTC)

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Is it ok to list places that call themselves spaceports but haven't actually had a launch to space yet? I added the Oklahoma Spaceport. It was licensed by the FFA in 2001. Armadillo Aerospace has done some test flights there.

Complete(?) list of rockets launch sites, see rocket launch site

Palmachim?

Would it be proper to include Palmachim here? It is confirmed by Israel that it is used for launching orbital satellites.--Amir E. Aharoni 07:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

User:Mrld

Amire80 is right leave Palmachim on the list. They do launch satellites from the air force base there. User:Mrld

needs a proper table

• name
• country
• altitude
• latitude
• largest vehicles that can be launched
• date of next planned launch
• date of most recent launch

AlbertCahalan 02:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

This list of table columns looks good to me. I would substitute "largest vehicle launched" for "that can be launched", as one is more open to interpretation (and thus disagreement ;-) than the other. (Sdsds - Talk) 04:37, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Need better image

Currently the article uses an image of Bumper 8 taking off from Cape Canaveral. The trouble with this is that Bumper 8 was not a spaceflight. (It was an atmospheric rocket mission.) We could instead use one of the fine images of a spaceflight launch like the one shown at right. But does anyone have thoughts on where to find an image that shows a spaceport? Is there a modern photo that shows both LC-39 and the shuttle landing facility, hopefully with plenty of missile row in the background? (sdsds - talk) 01:44, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Definition

Can the article mention that it is a port for launching or receiving spaceships ? At the moment, only the launching is discussed; receiving spaceships is done at places as the International space station. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.88.169 (talk) 16:19, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Done/216Kleopatra (talk) 10:45, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Future spaceports

Here's a BBC link to a piece on the proposed spaceport in Scotland. Scotland battles Sweden to get European spaceport, BBC News, 14 Feb 2011.

And here is an recent update on Spaceport Sweden. Cheers. N2e (talk) 13:53, 16 February 2012 (UTC)