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Space cargo from Nairobi

East Africa's technology and air-freight centre. Residual launch capacity routed through Baikonur Cosmodrome, Cape Canaveral SLC-40 and 1 other site.

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Nairobi is East Africa's technology and logistics centre, with a national space agency, a well-developed perishables air-freight infrastructure and a growing Earth-observation applications sector.

Cargo leaving Nairobi for orbit consolidates at Jomo Kenyatta (NBO). From there it routes to Baikonur Cosmodrome, Cape Canaveral SLC-40 and 1 other site. Charterspace lists the residual capacity on flights that are already leaving, so what is open from these sites changes as providers release it.

Nothing on this page is a guaranteed service. Residual capacity is sporadic by nature — most of the time there is none open from any given site, and a leg listed today may be gone tomorrow. Payloads bound for orbit are subject to export control, hazardous-materials rules and the launch provider's own acceptance criteria, all of which are settled before anything is booked. If nothing here matches what you need to ship, tell us and we will look at the routes that are not listed.

Launch sites serving Nairobi

  • Baikonur CosmodromeAir freight to Almaty (ALA) or Astana (NQZ), then rail west to the cosmodrome.
  • Kourou – CSGAir freight to Cayenne (CAY), then road west to the Centre Spatial Guyanais.
  • Cape Canaveral SLC-40Air freight to Orlando (MCO) or Miami (MIA), then road to the Space Coast.

Open capacity from launch sites serving Nairobi

This list is filtered to legs departing from the launch sites Nairobi is served by, not everything on the platform.

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Listed capacity is not guaranteed: it can be de-manifested at any time at the launch operator’s sole discretion, and all capacity is subject to export control laws and regulations. Read the full Risk Disclosure, or tell us what you need to ship if your route is not listed.