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launching site

n. a place for launching pads

Usage examples of "launching site".

As they watched, a red flag was broken out above the dome of the launching site and two RAF crash-wagons with red crosses on their sides rolled out of the trees to the edge of the blast-wall and pulled up.

This little town is Wassenaar, and we feel sure that those shadows indicate a [6] rocket-launching site.

The base was the Navy's major launching site for airborne eavesdropping missions over the Mediterranean area.

Before leaving the spot, Ames made an effort to pick up the trail of the Gorilla or anyone else who might have been stationed at the launching site.

Its great virtues, as you are well aware, are its complete mobility and the fact that it requires no special launching site.

I chuckled once more and started looking for the launching site robots.

Even before the sun had broached the dawn horizon, warm breezes wafted over the launching site and made the laqs of gas-globes swell.

The fuel carried on board the photon rocket enables the rocket's velocity to approach so close to the speed of light that the effects of relativity, especially the time dilation between launching site and space-ship, can operate to the full.

Still distrustful, he switched back to the radar set and spent the rest of the evening trying to ferret out the launching site in outer space.

This was the Swifts' privately owned island in the Atlantic which they used as a rocket-launching site.

Less than an hour ago, Nestor and his men had landed on a gently sloping, wooded hillside which would normally make a good, easy launching site.

Then, after buying a sturdy sausage bag in the hotel's gift shop, and using a stall in the gentlemen's toilets as a private launching site to the Mobius Continuum, they were on their way.

A few military units still guarded the derelict gantries, but already the former launching site was being used as a satellite graveyard.