Sentence examples for launch facility from inspiring English sources
The letters "LFDN" appeared on their computer screens: Launch Facility Down.
The rocket, carrying 18 satellites, crashed Thursday after liftoff in an uninhabited area about 15 miles south of Baikonur, Russia's main space launch facility.
It would be extremely difficult to break into a Minuteman launch facility and get anywhere near the missile — but not impossible.
A Soyuz capsule carrying Laliberté and two astronauts lifted off on schedule from the Baikonur launch facility atop a Russian rocket.
By the tourist town of Wenchang on the coast of the tropical island of Hainan, work is nearly complete on China's fourth and most advanced launch facility.
"When you start getting into a heavier crew transfer vehicle and a dedicated launch facility, it's over a billion dollars, but less than two," Mr. Gass said.
His space firm is called Blue Origin, and its launch facilities are in Texas.
So, the Air Force runs the launch facilities at Cape and also at Vandenberg.
Important exceptions to this generalization were the reinforced concrete and deep tunnels used to protect strategic-missile launch facilities.
The CNSA operates three launch facilities: Jiuquan, in Gansu province; Taiyuan, in Shanxi province; and Xichang, in Sichuan province.
Military crews at two other nearby launch facilities reported moving lights in the air on the same evening, but said they heard no sounds.
