# Spadeadam

*Test range*

RAF Spadeadam, Blue Streak test site

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 55.0500° N, 2.5500° W |
| State | UK |
| What is done there | rocket engine test site |
| Still working | no |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

RAF Spadeadam (IATA: N/A, ICAO: EGOM) is a Royal Air Force station in Cumbria, England, close to the border with Northumberland. It is the home of the 9,000 acre (36 km2) electronic warfare (EW) tactics range, making it the largest (by area) RAF base in the United Kingdom.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=55.05,-2.55
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Spadeadam
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.