GLOBAL AEROSPACE INFRASTRUCTURE REGISTRY
ORBIT maps strategic aerospace facilities — spaceports, launch ranges, deep-space tracking stations and observatories — and computes your bearing and range to each of them in real time.
Ranking the nearest aerospace facilities to your position…
Publicly documented sites. Your position, once shared, is plotted in amber.
Coordinates are approximate site centroids from open sources.
| # | Facility | Country | Type | Lat | Lon | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kennedy Space Center (LC-39) | USA | Orbital launch complex | 28.6084 | -80.6043 | — |
| 2 | Cape Canaveral SFS | USA | Space Force launch range | 28.4889 | -80.5778 | — |
| 3 | Vandenberg SFB | USA | Polar-orbit launch range | 34.7420 | -120.5724 | — |
| 4 | Baikonur Cosmodrome | Kazakhstan | Crewed launch complex | 45.9650 | 63.3050 | — |
| 5 | Guiana Space Centre (Kourou) | France | ESA equatorial spaceport | 5.2390 | -52.7683 | — |
| 6 | Jiuquan SLC | China | Crewed launch centre | 40.9606 | 100.2986 | — |
| 7 | Satish Dhawan (Sriharikota) | India | ISRO spaceport | 13.7199 | 80.2304 | — |
| 8 | Tanegashima Space Center | Japan | JAXA launch site | 30.4000 | 130.9700 | — |
| 9 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | Russia | High-inclination launch site | 62.9270 | 40.5777 | — |
| 10 | Goldstone DSN Complex | USA | Deep Space Network antenna | 35.4267 | -116.8900 | — |
| 11 | Arecibo (former) | Puerto Rico | Radio telescope site | 18.3442 | -66.7528 | — |
| 12 | Very Large Array | USA | Radio observatory | 34.0784 | -107.6184 | — |
| 13 | Mauna Kea Observatories | USA | Optical/IR observatory | 19.8207 | -155.4681 | — |
| 14 | Paranal (VLT) | Chile | ESO observatory | -24.6275 | -70.4044 | — |
| 15 | Svalbard SvalSat | Norway | Polar ground station | 78.2297 | 15.3897 | — |