Only at the beginning. Later (from 1962) USSR launches satellites there. Up to 1988 Kapustin Yar was specialized on small satellites and rockets. Later launch pad was suspended but temporarily re-activated for satellite deployment in 1998-99 and 2006 years.Balthagor wrote:Kapustin Yar is a missile research site, not a launch pad
"By 1980, there had been 70 orbital launches, mostly small Kosmos science satellites but, as work was switched to Plesetsk, the annual launch rate fell to an average of only one; however, the activity has been increasing since 2006: a Kosmos-3M launched six US Orbcomm satellites in June 2006 and there are plans to launch 20 more Orbcomm satellites from the site.The last orbital launch to occur at Kapustin Yar was on 28 April 1999, from launch complex 107, when ABRIXAS, a German X-ray astronomy satellite, was launched aboard a Kosmos 3-M rocket" (Jane's
Spaceport at X:1625 Y:264 should be named Tanegashima. Another Japan space center Uchinoura too close for build it...
Yes I missed it, should be placed to the north-west of Kourou, at X:551 Y:388.Balthagor wrote:IIRC we have the Guiana space centre.
New Russian spaceport Yasny (X:1144 Y:147), 4 success satellite deployment since 2006. (It placed near Dombarovsry but not the same!)
North Korean spaceport Tonghae at X:1577 Y:203
South Korean spaceport Naro at X:1589 Y:240
Pakistan spaceport Tilla at X:1272 Y:247
USA spaceport Wallops at X:442 Y:223
Sweden Mission Control (Sat) Esrange at X:912 Y:065