Launch Pad in a sentence

Debris was also tracked using a pair of Weibel Continuous Pulse Doppler X-band radars, one on board the SRB recovery ship MV Liberty Star positioned north east of the launch pad and on a ship positioned south of the launch pad.

The troops scrubbed down the revetments and launch pad, carted away debris and removed the top layer of coral around the contaminated launch pad.

The initial set of stairs up from the pad are broken, leading players to assume the only way up is the launch pad.

SpaceX conducted a pad abort test in 2015 to demonstrate the capsule’s ability to escape a rocket explosion on the launch pad.

Thankfully, —a test vehicle used in the development of Starship—appears to have survived the launch; the retired Starhopper continues to stand right next to the launch pad.

United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket lifts off from its Florida launch pad, sending Boeing’s Starliner capsule and its crew of two astronauts to the International Space Station.

United Launch Alliance ground crews plan to transfer the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Tuesday morning to begin preparations for an early morning countdown Thursday.

Another image of a launch pad at the facility shows water that's run off it and pooled, likely a sign of workers preparing the site for a launch, he said.

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle rises from the company’s launch pad on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.

The Long March II-F rocket loaded with a Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft carrying Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang lifts off from the launch pad in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, on June 16, 2012.

Launch towers at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 17 launch pad were topped Thursday in an explosive demolition.

When the Delta 2 returned to service, members of the launch team moved to a control center farther from the launch pad.

By June 1979, it was again mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters (known as a boilerplate configuration) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A for a series of fit checks of the facilities there.

Usually the launch vehicle itself is a rocket lifting off from a launch pad on land.

A Falcon 9 rocket thundered off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral before dawn Thursday with 56 Starlink internet satellites, setting a record for the heaviest cargo ever flown on a SpaceX rocket at more than 38,000 pounds.

For a whopping 76 years and counting, the Cannes Film Festival has served as the launch pad for many of today’s beloved filmmakers and even actors.

In this time-lapse video, the Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon atop rolls to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center for the first time on January 3. The rocket was then lifted vertical for a series of fit checks and tests.

It contained the landing rocket, fuel tanks and storage space for equipment and the lunar rover — and was used as a launch pad for the ascent module.

It was the second setback for commercial space development in a week after SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded spectacularly minutes after soaring off its launch pad.

Spaceport is already seeing the benefits of having the new launch pad, which is ready for action with a new R&D centre and workshops that open in March.