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| Attribute | Kennedy Space Center 🇺🇸 United States Active · Last updated 2026-06-01Trust: Agency-primaryⓘ Last verified Remove × | Tanegashima Space Center 🇯🇵 Japan Active · Last updated 2026-06-01Trust: Agency-primaryⓘ Last verified Remove × | |
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| Operator | ISC Kosmotras (defunct) / Russian Strategic Rocket Forces | NASA | JAXA |
| Ownership | Military | Government | Government |
| Region | 🇷🇺 Russia | 🇺🇸 United States | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Launch pads | — | 2 active (LC-39A, LC-39B)as of [1] ↑ Most pads | 2 (Yoshinobu Launch Complex: LP-1 H-IIA/B, LP-2 H3)as of [1] |
| Annual launches | 0 | ~40as of [1]Combined NASA + SpaceX cadence from LC-39A and LC-39B | 2–4as of [1] |
| Max payload (LEO) | — | 63,800 kg to LEO (Falcon Heavy expendable)as of [2] | 16,500 kg to LEO (H3-24L variant)as of [1]H3 first successful orbital flight February 2024 ↑ Highest capacity |
| First operational launch | 1999 | 1967-11-09as of [1]SA-501 Apollo 4 — first Saturn V launch from LC-39A | 1975-09-09as of [1]ETS-1 (Kiku) on N-I rocket — Japan's first domestically-launched satellite |
| Regulatory regime | Russian Ministry of Defence + Roscosmos; commercial operations ceased after Russia-Ukraine cooperation collapse 2014/2022 | NASA range safety + FAA-AST Part 450 for commercial users; co-managed with Eastern Range | MEXT / Cabinet Office Space Activities Act (2018, amended 2023) |
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