Kepler Launch Site is a site for the launch of low and medium power model rockets south of Weil der Stadt in Germany at (48°44′23″N8°51′44″E). Kepler Launch Site, which is named in honor of the astronomer Johannes Kepler born in 1571 in Weil der Stadt, was founded in 2001 on the area of a former site of midsummer fire celebrations, which was abandoned a few years ago.