Baikonur
The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan. Located in the Kazakh city of Baikonur, it is the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area.
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- Description: cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, used by Russia
- Also known as: “5 GIK”, “Baikonoer Kosmodroom”, “Baikonur Cosmodrome”, “Baikonur cosmodrone”, “Baikonur Kosmodrom”, “Baikonuri kosmodroom”, “Baikonurin kosmodrom”, “Baikonurin kosmodromi”, “Bajkanur”, “Bajkonur Kosmodrom”, “Bajkonur Kosmodromen”, “Bajkonur-kosmodrom”, “Bajkonuro”, “Base de lancement de Baïkonour”, “Baykonur”, “Baykonur Cosmodrome”, “Baykonur uzay fırlatma üssü”, “Bayqongyr (uthyrt område)”, “Centre de lancement de Baikonour”, “Centro de Lançamento de Baikonur”, “Cosmódrom de Baikonur”, “cosmòdrom de Baiqoñyr”, “Cosmodrome de Baikonour”, “Cosmodrome de baïkonour”, “Cosmódromo Baikonur”, “Cosmodromo de Baikonur”, “cosmodromo di Baikonur”, “GIK-5”, “Kosmické středisko Bajkonur”, “Kosmodrom Tiuratam”, “Kosmodromen”, “Sân bay vũ trụ Baikonur”, “State Test Range No. 5”, “Tyuratam”, “Διαστημικό Κέντρο Μπαϊκονούρ”, “Μπαϊκονούρ”, “Байконур космодромы”, “Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы”, “Касмадром Байканур”, “Космодром Байконур”, “Космодрума Байконур”, “Ленинск”, “مركز بيكاونور الفضائي”, “مركز بيكونور الفضائي”, “เตอเรียตัม”, “바이코누르 기지”, “바이코누르 우주기지”, “バイコヌール基地”, “拜科努尔发射场”, “拜科努尔太空中心”, “拜科努尔航天中心”, “拜科努爾太空中心”, “拜科努爾發射場”, “拜科努爾航天中心”, and “白寇奴爾”
Baikonur
- Categories: spaceport, Moonport, and condominium
- Location: Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
45.8333° or 45° 50′ north
Longitude
63.25° or 63° 15′ east
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
Open location code
8JQ5R7M2+82
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baikonur” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Baikonoer”
- Arabic: “مركز بايكونور الفضائي”
- Arabic: “ميناء بايكونور الفضائي”
- Armenian: “Բայկոնուր տիեզերակայան”
- Armenian: “Բայկոնուր”
- Asturian: “cosmódromu de Baikonur”
- Asturian: “Cosmódromu de Baikonur”
- Azerbaijani: “Baykonur kosmodromu”
- Bashkir: “Байконур”
- Basque: “Baikonurreko kosmodromoa”
- Belarusian: “Байканур”
- Bengali: “বাইকনুর কসমাদ্রোম”
- Bosnian: “Bajkonur”
- Bulgarian: “Байконур”
- Catalan: “cosmòdrom de Baikonur”
- Catalan: “Cosmòdrom de Baikonur”
- Cebuano: “Bayqongyr (abang nga dapit)”
- Cebuano: “Bayqongyr”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوەندی بۆشاییی بایکۆنور”
- Chinese: “拜科努尔航天发射场”
- Chinese: “拜科努爾航天發射場”
- Chinese: “白寇奴爾太空發射場”
- Chuvash: “Байконур”
- Croatian: “Bajkonur”
- Czech: “Kosmodrom Bajkonur”
- Danish: “Bajkonur-kosmodromen”
- Dutch: “Kosmodroom Bajkonoer”
- Esperanto: “Kosmodromo Bajkonur”
- Estonian: “Bajkongõri kosmodroom”
- Finnish: “Baikonurin avaruuskeskus”
- French: “Baïkonour”
- French: “Cosmodrome de Baïkonour”
- Galician: “Cosmódromo de Baikonur”
- Georgian: “ბაიკონურის კოსმოდრომი”
- German: “Kosmodrom Baikonur”
- Greek: “Κοσμοδρόμιο του Μπαϊκονούρ”
- Gujarati: “બેકોનુર કોસમોડ્રોમ”
- Hebrew: “קוסמודרום בייקונור”
- Hindi: “बायकोनूर कॉसमोड्रोम”
- Hungarian: “Bajkonuri űrrepülőtér”
- Ido: “Kosmodromo Baikonur”
- Indonesian: “Kosmodrom Baikonur”
- Indonesian: “Kosmodrom Bayqoñır”
- Irish: “Cosmadróm Baikonur”
- Italian: “cosmodromo di Bajkonur”
- Italian: “Cosmodromo di Bajkonur”
- Japanese: “バイコヌール宇宙基地”
- Kannada: “ಬೈಕೊನೂರ್ ಕಾಸ್ಮೋಡ್ರೋಮ್”
- Kazakh: “Байқоңыр”
- Kirghiz: “Байкоңур”
- Korean: “바이코누르 우주 기지”
- Ladino: “Kosmodrom de Baikonur”
- Latin: “Baikonur”
- Latvian: “Baikonuras kosmodroms”
- Lithuanian: “Baikonuro kosmodromas”
- Macedonian: “Бајконур”
- Malay: “Kosmodrom Baikonur”
- Malayalam: “ബയ്ക്കനൂർ കോസ്മോഡ്രോം”
- Marathi: “बिकॉनुर कॉस्मोड्रोम”
- Mongolian: “Байконур сансрын нислэгийн төв”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bajkonur kosmodrom”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kosmodrom Bajkonur”
- Norwegian: “Bajkonur kosmodrom”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cosmodròm de Baikonor”
- Ossetian: “Байконур”
- Persian: “پایگاه فضایی بایکونور”
- Piemontese: “Cosmodrom ëd Baikonur”
- Polish: “Bajkonur”
- Portuguese: “Cosmódromo de Baikonur”
- Pushto: “بایکانور الوتځای”
- Romanian: “Cosmodromul Baikonur”
- Russian: “Байконур”
- Scots: “Baikonur Cosmodrome”
- Serbian: “Kosmodrom Bajkonur”
- Serbian: “Космодром Бајконур”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bajkonur”
- Sicilian: “Cosmòdrumu di Baikonur”
- Sinhala: “බයිකොනුර් කොස්මොඩ්රොම්”
- Sinhala: “බයිකොනූර් කොස්මොඩ්රෝමය”
- Slovak: “Bajkonur”
- Slovak: “Kozmodróm Bajkonúr”
- Slovenian: “Kozmodrom Bajkonur”
- South Azerbaijani: “بایکونور اوزای سایتی”
- Spanish: “Cosmódromo de Baikonur”
- Swedish: “Kosmodromen i Bajkonur”
- Tajik: “Байконур”
- Tamil: “பைக்கனூர் விண்வெளி ஏவுதளம்”
- Tamil: “பைக்கனூர் விண்வெளி நிலையம்”
- Tatar: “Bayqoñğır ğäläm alanı”
- Tatar: “Байкоңгыр галәм аланы”
- Telugu: “బైకోనూర్ కాస్మోడ్రోమ్”
- Thai: “ท่าอวกาศยานบัยโกเงอร์”
- Turkish: “Baykonur Uzay Üssü”
- Tuvinian: “Байконур космодрому”
- Ukrainian: “Байконур”
- Urdu: “بیکونور کوسمودرومی”
- Uzbek: “Boyqoʻngʻir”
- Vietnamese: “Sân bay vũ trụ Baykonur”
- Walloon: “Cosmodrome di Baykonour”
- Western Panjabi: “بیکانور خلائی اڈا”
- Wu Chinese: “拜科努尔航天发射场”
- Yue Chinese: “拜哥努勒航天發射場”
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