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launch pad
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched [syn: launching pad , launchpad , launch area , pad ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A launch pad is an above-ground platform from which rocket- missiles or space launch vehicles take off vertically. Launch pad may also refer to the following:
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. The surface or structure from which a launch is made. n. The surface or structure from which a launch is made.
Usage examples of launch pad.
And when he reported to the launch pad at Canaveral and saw the sleek, powerful rocket with the rather small spacecraft perched atop, he wondered at the skill of his associates in building a device which could transmit photographs over a vast distance.
Not until recently, when I was busy lining up microwave dishes aimed at Conquistador's launch pad, did he begin to suspect something.
Passing the launch pad, she saw the gantry inching back on its railroad tracks, ready for take-off.
A soldier shuts the door behind him, and a moment later the vehicle rises from the ground, turns away from the camera, and skims down the road leading to the launch pad.
Just to reach Muroroa, in fact, Roberta had needed to teleport to another island, several miles south of this one, then brave the treacherous currents and coral reefs in an outrigger canoe until she came close enough to the forbidden atoll to jump overboard and scuba-dive the rest of the way, dodging sharks, moray eels, and poisonous jellyfish as she swam to shore not far from the rocket launch pad.
Frank Turtle, the strange little guy from the bowels of NASA who had done so much to return humans to the Moon, had lost his life when one of those big old Energia clones had dropped back to the launch pad on Sri Lanka and blown apart, taking half the island with it.
The Chinese have one on the launch pad but they won't be ready for launch for at least another seven hours or so.
After the high-eighties scorch of the launch pad outside the RSS, it was a welcome chill.
Narrow Leg said as he pointed out features of the slender ship on the launch pad.
Another F-1M rocket booster was sitting on a launch pad of the Baikonur Kosmodrome Complex.
The weight of the rocket on the launch pad had been 260,000 pounds, most of it oxidizer and fuel, the liquid oxygen and RP-1 fuel.
Keene did a quick mental calculation, then added several hours for storming a launch pad, taking up a shuttle that had been readied in hope of arriving emigrants, making orbit, and maneuvering into position.
White smoke burst around the launch pad and the rumble from the engines rattled glass twelve miles away.
One wall of Gavin's office was covered with framed photographs: a Saturn V rocket spotlighted at night on its mobile launch pad, the Peregrine command module with the bright limb of the moon beneath it, a group portrait of the crew in their spacesuits, a shot of the LM Discovery beginning its descent, and an autographed picture of Richard Nixon shaking Tom's hand in a Rose Garden ceremony.