launch sites
Rocket departure points
Launch sites are locations from which rockets, missiles, or spacecraft are sent into flight.
The term appears most often in aerospace contexts: Cape Canaveral is among the world's busiest launch sites.
Military usage refers to positions from which weapons are fired.
Figuratively, any starting point for an endeavor: The garage served as a launch site for their startup.
- Cape CanaveralNASA's Atlantic coast launchpad
- gantryOverhead spanning framework
- lift offDeparture from ground
- siloAgricultural storage tower
- space raceContest for orbital superiority
mission control · control tower · airbase · blast-off · Kennedy Space Center · launchpad · countdown
- rocketryrocket, rockets, rocket fuel, rocket engine, rocket engines
- canvassingcanvassers, knock, door knocking, door-to-door, canvass
- space industrySpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA, space tourism, satellites
- kayak tourssea kayaking, river tours, lake tours, guided tours, group tours
- Nuclear SitesHiroshima, Chernobyl, Nagasaki, Fukushima, Three Mile Island
origin vs. destination
launch sitesdestinations
Places one travels to
impact zones · endpoints · drop zones · delivery points · terminals
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