Sentence examples for launch platforms from inspiring English sources

Zambellas said it was not just about launch platforms but power stations too.

His gonzo installation "Space Program: Mars" includes meticulous makeshift launch platforms, suiting stations, rovers, and much more.

5. Small rockets can be fired from a variety of launch platforms, ranging from packing crates to shoulder launchers to aircraft (there is no recoil).

The new Russian approach tries to sidestep the thorny issue of whether reductions in warheads must be irreversible, and whether launch platforms like submarines, missiles and bombers must be destroyed, the American official said.

In the meantime, a new set of bilateral negotiations between the superpowers had begun in 1982 with the aim of reducing rather than merely limiting their arsenals of nuclear warheads and launch platforms (missiles and bombers).

Originally conceived as powered artillery shells and therefore the purview of munitions manufacturers, they rapidly became products of the aerospace industry by virtue of the ranges achievable with small jet and rocket engines and of the common use of airborne launch platforms.

With semiactive homing the designator or illuminator might be remote from the launch platform.

Their submarine launch platform had a whole ocean to hide in.

The gorge is about 60 metres below the launch platform and you can control your descent, up to a point.

On Saturday the spacecraft and its carrier rocket were moved to the launch platform at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a rocket-launching complex in the Gobi Desert in northwest China.

An advantage of inertial guidance was that it required no electronic emissions from the missile or launch platform that could be picked up by the enemy.