Tag:aeroway:suborbital=spaceport
 aeroway:suborbital = spaceport
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| A spaceport for suborbital spacecraft |
| Group: aeroways |
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Status: in use
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The tag aeroway:suborbital=spaceport is used to map a ![[W]](/w/images/2/24/Wikipedia-16px.png "Wikipedia"){kind=small}
Spaceport for Sub-orbital_spaceflight. A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching Spacecraft (vehicles designed to fly in outer space), while a suborbital spaceport only launches above the Kármán_line (100 km), which is approximately half of the lowest possible low earth orbit (the launch reaches "space" just for a couple of minutes).
How to map
- Create a closed way around the extent of the spaceport area (often co-incident with a barrier of some kind).
- For complex boundaries create a relation:multipolygon and add the tags to the relation.
- If the area of the spaceport is not clear, use a node at the centre.
Add the tag aeroway:suborbital=spaceport and the name=*.
Related features
A spaceport area may contain one or more launch pads, landing pads, hangars and other features which should be mapped separately:
Suborbital launches
(may all have a launchpad)
Lifecycle prefix
There's an increasing number of spaceports announced, but construction may take time, be aborted etc., the status may be expressed by the lifecycle prefix. Also for disused infrastructure or different stages of decay.
Possible tagging mistakes
An aeroway=spaceport delivers cargo or astronauts to space (which stay there for more than a couple of minutes). For the necessity to differentiate the launchpad see the "suborbital launches" table above.
See also
- aeroway - overview
- aeroway:research=launchpad - for sounding rockets
- aeroway:balloon=launchpad - for balloons
- military=launchpad – for military purposes
- communication:space=* – infrastructure for space communication Category:Spacecraft communication
- Proposal to include spacecraft in aeroway key