Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

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The United States Eastern Range, on a barrier cape in Brevard County, Florida, and the busiest launch site in the world. Its geography is the reason it exists: at about 28.5° north it gains roughly 400 metres per second of free eastward velocity from the Earth's rotation, and every trajectory to the east crosses open Atlantic rather than populated land, so a failure falls into water. It is a Space Force installation distinct from the adjacent NASA Kennedy Space Center to its north, and it hosts commercially leased pads including Space Launch Complex 40, from which most Falcon 9 missions fly. Its two landing zones receive returning boosters, which is why a single site can both launch and recover on the same day. Range capacity — the scheduling, tracking and safety infrastructure shared across all users — has become a binding constraint on cadence in a way that pad availability alone is not.