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    A launch pad is an above-ground facility from which a rocket-powered missile or space vehicle is vertically launched. The term launch pad can be used...
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    Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida....
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    Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The Centre currently has two functioning launch pads used for launching sounding rockets, polar satellites and geosynchronous satellites...
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  • Look up launch pad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A launch pad is an above-ground platform from which rocket- missiles or space launch vehicles take...
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    Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) is the second of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida....
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    SpaceX leases Launch Complex 39A from NASA and has modified the pad to support Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. NASA began modifying Launch Complex 39B...
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    seven potential locations around the United States for the new commercial launch pad. Since then, the leading candidate location for the new facility was a...
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    the crew commander's use. The LES may be used while the launch vehicle is on the launch pad, or during its ascent. Such systems are usually of three...
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    Spaceport (redirect from Space launch pad)
    contain one or more launch pads or suitable sites to mount a transportable launch pad. It is typically surrounded by a large safety area, often called a rocket...
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    Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), sometimes referred to as "Slick Forty," is a launch pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Initially...
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  • be horizontally erected at the launch pad. Several changes are being accommodated in the design of the third launch pad at SDSC for the rocket. The development...
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    have also died while training for space missions, such as the Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed an entire crew of three. There have also been some non-astronaut...
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    pad)) South pad (located at approximately 41°16′49″N 100°18′16″E / 41.2804°N 100.3045°E / 41.2804; 100.3045 (LA-3 south pad) ) The South Launch complex...
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    features reusable first-stage boosters, which land either on a ground pad near the launch site or on a drone ship at sea. In December 2015, Falcon 9 became...
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    maiden launch on June 4, 2010, carrying a dummy payload qualification unit. SpaceX modified the launch pad in 2013 in order to support launches of the...
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    spacecraft was expected to be launched from the launch pad number one. After the cancellation of the program, the launch pad was never completed. Today,...
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    GPX (secondary coordinates) Launch Pad 0 (LP-0), also known as Launch Complex 0 (LC-0), or Launch Area 0 (LA-0), is a launch complex at the Mid-Atlantic...
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    station is the primary launch site for the Space Force's Eastern Range with three launch pads currently active (Space Launch Complexes 40, 41 and 46)...
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    NASA Wallops Island for the MARS launch pads. Virginia Space also applied for and was granted an FAA license to launch to orbit. This led to the establishment...
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    Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) is a launch and landing site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, U.S. It has two pads, both of which are used by...
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    commented that on their evening flight to Moscow they had seen lights on launch pads and related complexes for more than 15 minutes, and according to astronaut...
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  • pad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pad or pads may refer to: Pads, protective equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey Elbow pad Knee pad...
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    Most launch vehicles operate from a launch pad, supported by a launch control center and systems such as vehicle assembly and fueling. Launch vehicles...
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    abort from the pad. The launch escape system (LES) had to be able to pull the spacecraft away from an exploding rocket on the launch pad. The LES then...
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    rolled to launch site on November 11. Super Heavy Booster 13 (B13) was moved to the Orbital Launch Pad on October 22. While on the launch pad it conducted...
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    The 1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster was the explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket carrying a Tselina-D satellite during fueling at Site 43 of the Plesetsk...
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    around and fired its Raptor engines to return to the launch site. As the booster approached the launch pad it slowed to a near hover and did a horizontal slide...
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    Retrieved 18 November 2023. "Powerful Blast from SpaceX's Starship Damages Launch Pad and Wrecks Nearby Minivan". Yahoo News. 20 April 2023. Retrieved 26 September...
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    beneath the launch platform. The service tower was likewise mounted on rails, and it was moved to a position 185 meters west of the pad before launch. At 95...
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    were destroyed on the launch pad during the fueling process before a static fire test was set to occur. Falcon Heavy was launched three times, all successful...
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