launching base

NOUN

space platform

Synonyms

WEAK

space airport space dock space laboratory space observatory space station spaceport

Example Sentences

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But the one which failed last Friday managed to travel some 3,000km from its launching base.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

"Are we going to the launching base at Boothia, where the manned rockets go up?"

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen