Definition of launch pad in US English:
launch pad
(also launching pad)
nounˈlɔntʃ ˌpædˈlônCH ˌpad
1The area on which a rocket stands for launching, typically consisting of a platform with a supporting structure.
火箭发射台
Example sentencesExamples
- It's a photo of the space shuttle Columbia on the launch pad, before the first-ever shuttle takeoff 22 years ago.
- When one sees the Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad one notes the two big booster rockets attached to its sides.
- They used this area as a launch pad to attack the coalition forces.
- The latter shoots passengers 160 feet in the air with a force of 4Gs before free-falling back to the launch pad.
- Researchers studied the medical records of 1,000 children in areas close to the launch pad.
- These use a 1: 20 scale model of Vega and its launch pad to simulate conditions at liftoff.
- The studios have always approached Cannes warily, eager to use it as a PR launch pad for their prestige pictures.
- And like jets, the next generation of space vehicles might take off from a runway rather than a launch pad.
- The camera will be turned on fifteen minutes prior to launch and will show the orbiter and solid rocket boosters on the launch pad.
- Among the work outstanding is the preparation of the launch pad and the building of storage facilities.
- Plus it's going to be a launch pad and a ‘cost-effective promotional tool’.
- The space shuttle sits on a launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- It proved the launch pad for a career that has been rocketing ever since.
- As a result, activity on the launch pad was suspended prior to the startup of the third stage fueling.
- Digital is the launch pad for all advanced interactive services.
- In 1967, three US Astronauts died in a launch pad fire at the Kennedy Space Centre.
- However, skies cleared enough for observers at the launch pad to follow the rocket on its long trajectory.
- Nasa decided to leave space shuttle Discovery on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- It had to be able to withstand a gigantic nearby explosion in case one of the rockets exploded on or near the launch pad.
- What is an astronaut feeling as he's sitting on the rocket launch pad strapped into his pod at the brink of takeoff?
- 1.1 Something that sets a particular activity, enterprise, etc. in motion.
it's one of those shows that has been the launch pad for many great careers