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    coordinates) Andøya Space, also named Andøya Space Center and formerly Andøya Rocket Range, is a rocket launch site, rocket range, and spaceport on Andøya...
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    framework. Andøya Space Center in Norway operates two sounding rocket launch sites, one at Andøya and one at Svalbard. Has launched sounding rockets since 1962...
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    Esrange (redirect from Esrange Space Center)
    name over the years has been European Space and Sounding Rocket Range, and European Space Range. There had been Swedish rocket activities previously, mainly...
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    The Svalbard Rocket Range or SvalRak as it is named, is a launch site for sounding rockets at Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard, Norway. The site has been in use...
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  • formed European Space Research Organisation. The first two ESRO sounding rockets were launches from the Salto di Quirra range in Sardinia on 6 and 8 July...
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    century, due to improvements in the power and range of conventional artillery, the use of early military rockets declined; they were finally used on a small...
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  • artificial satellite into space. At the time, Canada only possessed upper atmospheric launch capabilities (sounding rockets), therefore, Alouette 1 was...
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    X-15 and SpaceShipTwo, and uncrewed ones, such as ICBMs and sounding rockets. Flights which attain sufficient velocity to go into low Earth orbit, and then...
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    Skylark was a family of British sounding rockets. It was operational between 1957 and 2005. Development of the Skylark begun during the early 1950s at...
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  • article constitutes a list of rocket launch sites. Some of these sites are known as spaceports or cosmodromes. A single rocket launch is sufficient for inclusion...
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