Alcântara, Maranhão, Brazil

Equinox Launch Complex

Two degrees south of the equator, so the Earth's spin gives every launch a free 460 m/s. It's our home for orbital and lunar missions.

Facilities

Equatorial and humid, with afternoon storms in the March–May rainy season. Morning windows are favoured.

suborbital

4.8

Straddle both hemispheres at once.

From

$430K

orbital

4.9

Three days. Forty-eight sunrises.

From

$3.2M

orbital

5.0

Long enough for space to feel like home.

From

$6.8M

lunar

5.0

Around the Moon and home again, on gravity alone.

From

$85M

lunar

5.0

150 km above a side of the Moon few have ever seen.

From

$92M