Why Are Satellite Launch Pads Located on East Coast?

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I have a question... it may seem like a very basic one, but still I am not able to answer this.

"Why all satellite launch pads are located on east coast"?

I can understand why satellite neeeds to be launhed in eastward direction, but when I tried to correlate these two together, I was told that still something is missing. :rolleyes:

May be someone of you here can tell the correct answer.

Thanks.
 
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I'm not sure if they launch satellites from White Sands or not, but anyway, the reason NASA's launch facility is on the east coast of Florida is safety: the rockets fly out over the ocean instead of over populated areas.
 

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