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Published online 30 January 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070129-6
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Spaceports spring up all over
Last week, Virgin Galactic announced plans to fly spaceships from Arctic Sweden. News@nature.com looks at where else you can reach for the stars.
What is a spaceport anyway?
Any facility that can launch craft into space, technically 100 km up. Traditionally, such places have been monopolized by the state — for example, Kennedy Space Centre in Florida or the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan — with a focus on heavy-lift, orbital rockets.
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