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What (who) is launch pad - definition

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Launchpad; Launchpad (disambiguation); Launch Pad; LaunchPad

launch pad         
  • [[SLC-40]] with SpaceX [[Falcon 9]] launch infrastructure. The four towers surrounding the rocket are [[lightning arrester]]s, and acts like a giant [[Faraday cage]]
  • MLP]] to pad on [[Crawler-transporter]]
  • Transport of [[Soyuz rocket]] to pad by train
(launch pads)
1.
A launch pad or launching pad is a platform from which rockets, missiles, or satellites are launched.
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2.
A launch pad or launching pad is a situation, for example a job, which you can use in order to go forward to something better or more important.
Wimbledon has been a launch pad for so many players...
= stepping stone
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Launch pad         
  • [[SLC-40]] with SpaceX [[Falcon 9]] launch infrastructure. The four towers surrounding the rocket are [[lightning arrester]]s, and acts like a giant [[Faraday cage]]
  • MLP]] to pad on [[Crawler-transporter]]
  • Transport of [[Soyuz rocket]] to pad by train
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 to describe just the central launch platform (mobile launcher platform), or the entire complex (launch complex).
launch pad         
  • [[SLC-40]] with SpaceX [[Falcon 9]] launch infrastructure. The four towers surrounding the rocket are [[lightning arrester]]s, and acts like a giant [[Faraday cage]]
  • MLP]] to pad on [[Crawler-transporter]]
  • Transport of [[Soyuz rocket]] to pad by train
(also launching pad)
¦ noun the area on which a rocket stands for launching.

Wikipedia

Launch pad (disambiguation)

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:

Examples of use of launch pad
1. The third raid was against a helicopter launch pad.
2. The Shenzhou–7 spaceship is transferred to the launch pad in Gansu province on Saturday.
3. Its members are already on the launch pad of their journey to the next fundamentalist galaxy.
4. Shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach said radar will look for birds massing near the launch pad.
5. This time, settler leaders chose Sderot as a launch pad for a massive march.