launch pad

Noun

Meaning

a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

pad launchpad launching pad launch area springboard digs mousetrap starting point facilitator jumping-off point inkpad drop zone trampoline diving board PADS
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Antonyms

end ending conclusion finish destination finale
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Hypernyms

platform

Related terms

launch pad launcher launch vehicle launch complex launch center

Examples

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad. Alan Shepard

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced. Wally Schirra

The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad. Isabel Yosito

Among them was Neil Wight, a machinist from Buffalo, New York, who staked out a view of the launch pad from a park in Titusville. Source: Internet

He has alleged that these people have begun to put their inflammatory scheme in motion and are poised to cast all sorts of aspersions, malice and propaganda with a primary objective to discredit President Lungu using Eastern Province as a launch pad. Source: Internet

For a mass equal to a Saturn V rocket, the escape velocity relative to the launch pad is 253.5 am /s (8 nanometers per year) faster than the escape velocity relative to the mutual center of mass. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

launch lunch launch oneself launch out launch party launch platform launch procedure