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n. (plural of launch pad English)
Usage examples of "launch pads".
There were just three launch pads set in a rough triangle a few hundred yards apart.
Past the landing field, the river curved south, marking the perimeter of the two-mile safety zone around the launch pads.
Henry could see how the rail links and roads and scattered buildings and launch pads of the complex stretched for miles across this immense plain.
In the growing dusk, wandering around his Elektron launch facility-now, by Stavka decree, unquestionably his--he preferred solitude as he observed his workers scurrying around the launch pads.
And, as usual, at least six of the dozens of launch pads had boosters on them.
From this elevated vantage Malenfant could see a sweep of lowland speckled with concrete splashes linked by roadways: launch pads, many of them decommissioned.
There were three compartments: an instrumentation room, which ran the width of the building, and two firing rooms, A on the left and B on the right, angled towards the two launch pads served by this blockhouse.
Hittite glyphs, for example, showed - against a background of starry heavens - cruising missiles, rockets mounted on launch pads, and a god inside u radiating chamber.
The taller buildings resembled outsize rocketships that had never left their launch pads, or the wind-eroded lava tors of long-dead volcanoes.
The L-l directive ordered all missile batteries to quickly march to preselected launch pads, anywhere from two to fifty miles away, set up, and prepare to launch.
A new booster was being fueled hurriedly out on one of Tyuratam's eighty working launch pads.
Stranded at the heart of a chill, treeless steppe, connected to the Russian border by a single antique rail line, it was like a run-down military base, dotted with hangars and launch pads and fuel tanks.
It came to serious money, too, enough to bribe the Floridian authorities who controlled the launch pads at the Cape, to hire pilots, to fight the Feds' lawyers through the courts until, reluctantly, they did give in and provide a launch vehicle for her.
It came to serious money, too, enough to bribe the Floridian authorities who controlled the launch pads at the Cape, to hire pilots, to fight the Feds’.