The first launching sites was created in 1941 in USA – California, called Vandenberg Air Force Base,
it’s used by government and commercial satellite launches and ballistic missile tests. The second was
Flight Facility in Delmarva Peninsula in Virginia now operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
primarily for sub-orbital and small orbital launches, testing and research. In third was the Woomera
Launch Site in Australia in 1949 originally a joint between British and Australian government research
facility, used for missile testing and satellite launches.
The last launch site created was in South Korea, in 2009, intended for launches of unmanned satellites into
Earth orbit.
Nowadays there are 43 operational and 15 planned or proposed launchings sites.
