Research Article
Relationship of Worldwide Rocket Launch Crashes with Geophysical Parameters
Table 1
Main world space ports.
| Space port | State owned | Lat.° | Long.° | Period of operation | # of launches | # of crashes |
| (1) Plesetsk | USSR/Russia | 63N | 41E | 1966–present | 1558 | 66 | (2) Baikonur | USSR/Russia | 46N | 62E | 1957–present | 1288 | 109 | (3) Cape Canaveral | USA | 28N | 80W | 1957–present | 638 | 62 | (4) Vandenberg AFB | USA | 34N | 120W | 1959–present | 586 | 50 | (5) Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou | Guyane Francaise | 05N | 52W | 1968–present | 189 | 14 | (6) Kapustin Jar | USSR/Russia | 48N | 45E | 1961–1999 | 100 | 16 | (7) Xichang Space Center | China | 28N | 102E | 1984–present | 47 | 4 | (8) Tanegashima | Japan | 30N | 130E | 1975–present | 44 | 2 | (9) Naval Missile Facility, Point Arguello | USA | 34N | 120W | 1986–present | 44 | 12 | (10) Wallops Flight Facility | USA | 38N | 75W | 1960–present | 42 | 3 | (11) Jiuquan | China | 40N | 100E | 1970–present | 42 | 5 | (12) Kagoshima | Japan | 31N | 130E | 1966–2006 | 35 | 8 | (13) Taiyuan | China | 37N | 112E | 1988–2006 | 23 | 2 | (14) Sea Launch, Platform Odyssey | USA, Russia, Ukraine, Norway | 0 | 154W | 1999–present | 24 | 2 | Others | | — | — | 1957–present | 229 | 29 |
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