🇺🇸United States · 11 pads
Air launch to orbit
52 launches have flown from the 11 pads here, the first in April 1990.
Pads
11 11 active
Launches
52
Success rate
90.4% 47/52
First flight
1990-04-05
Latest flight
2026-07-03
Location
Pads
| Pad | Status | Launches | Success | First | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vandenberg Space Force Base | Active | 22 | 90.9% | 1994-06-27 | 2021-06-13 |
| Cape Canaveral | Active | 7 | 100.0% | 1993-02-09 | 2019-10-11 |
| Wallops Flight Facility | Active | 6 | 83.3% | 1996-11-04 | 1999-12-04 |
| Edwards Air Force Base | Active | 5 | 100.0% | 1990-04-05 | 1994-08-03 |
| Kwajalein Atoll | Active | 5 | 100.0% | 2000-10-09 | 2026-07-03 |
| Mojave Air and Space Port | Active | 5 | 80.0% | 2020-05-25 | 2022-07-02 |
| Gran Canaria | Active | 1 | 100.0% | 1997-04-21 | 1997-04-21 |
| Spaceport Cornwall | Active | 1 | 0.0% | 2023-01-09 | 2023-01-09 |
| Andersen Air Force Base | Active | 0 | – | – | – |
| Cecil Air and Space Port | Active | 0 | – | – | – |
| Guam International Airport | Active | 0 | – | – | – |
Who launches from here
2 operatorsVehicles flown
6 typesLaunch cadence
decided flights per year1990Peak 1998, 6 launches2026
Site record
- Country
- United States
- Coordinates
- 34.7328° N, 120.5681° W
- Pads
- 11 (11 active)
- Pad operators
- Orbital Sciences Corporation, Virgin Orbit
- Top orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (10)
Recent flights
52 flights| Date | Mission | Pad | Vehicle | Operator | Orbit | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | Pegasus XL | Swift Boost Mission | Kwajalein Atoll | Pegasus XL | – | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2023-01-09 | LauncherOne | Start Me Up | Spaceport Cornwall | LauncherOne | Virgin Orbit | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 2022-07-02 | LauncherOne | Straight Up | Mojave Air and Space Port | LauncherOne | Virgin Orbit | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2022-01-13 | LauncherOne | Above the Clouds | Mojave Air and Space Port | LauncherOne | Virgin Orbit | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2021-06-30 | LauncherOne | Tubular Bells, Part One | Mojave Air and Space Port | LauncherOne | Virgin Orbit | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2021-06-13 | Pegasus XL | Odyssey (TacRL-2) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Success |
| 2021-01-17 | LauncherOne | Launch Demo 2 | Mojave Air and Space Port | LauncherOne | Virgin Orbit | Polar Orbit | Success |
| 2020-05-25 | LauncherOne | Launch Demo | Mojave Air and Space Port | LauncherOne | Virgin Orbit | Low Earth Orbit | Failure |
| 2019-10-11 | Pegasus XL | Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) | Cape Canaveral | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2016-12-15 | Pegasus XL | 8 x CYGNSS | Cape Canaveral | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2013-06-28 | Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Sun-Synchronous Orbit | Success |
| 2012-06-13 | Pegasus XL | Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) | Kwajalein Atoll | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2008-10-19 | Pegasus XL | Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) | Kwajalein Atoll | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2008-04-16 | Pegasus XL | Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) | Kwajalein Atoll | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2007-04-25 | Pegasus XL | Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2006-03-28 | Pegasus XL | Space Technology 5 (ST-5) (3x microsats) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2006-03-22 | Pegasus XL | ST-5 FWD | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | Low Earth Orbit | Success |
| 2005-04-15 | Pegasus XL | Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2003-08-13 | Pegasus XL | SCISAT-1 | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2003-06-26 | Pegasus XL | OrbView-3 | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2003-04-28 | Pegasus XL | Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) | Cape Canaveral | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2003-01-25 | Pegasus XL | Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) | Cape Canaveral | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2002-02-05 | Pegasus XL | Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) | Cape Canaveral | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2000-10-09 | Pegasus Hybrid | High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2) | Kwajalein Atoll | Pegasus Hybrid | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 2000-06-07 | Pegasus XL | Tri-Services Experiments Platform-5 (TSX-5) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1999-12-04 | Pegasus XL HAPS | Orbcomm-D2 - D8 | Wallops Flight Facility | Pegasus XL HAPS | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1999-05-18 | Pegasus XL HAPS | MUBLCOM & TERRIERS | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL HAPS | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1999-03-05 | Pegasus XL | Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1998-12-06 | Pegasus XL | Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) | Vandenberg Space Force Base | Pegasus XL | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
| 1998-10-23 | Pegasus Hybrid | Satélite de Coleta de Dados-2 (SCD-2) | Cape Canaveral | Pegasus Hybrid | Northrop Grumman | – | Success |
Each pad's full history is on its own page.
Pad records from Launch Library 2. Flights and company identity fromSpace Index. How the numbers are derived.