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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    to a launch pad. This becomes the support structure for launch. The use of mobile launcher platform is a part of the Integrate-Transfer-Launch (ITL)...
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    Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), sometimes pronounced Slick Forty and previously Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) is a launch pad for rockets located at the...
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    the crew commander's use. The LES may be used while the launch vehicle is still on the launch pad, or during its ascent. Such systems are usually of three...
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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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