launch platform

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• Odyssey (launch platform) — Ocean Odyssey redirects here. For the television series of the same name, see Ocean Odyssey (TV series). For the oil tanker, see Odyssey (tanker). For the FIRST Lego League game, see Ocean Odyssey (FIRST). Odyssey at a graving dock in Esquimalt,… …   Wikipedia

• launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space. [1955 1960] * * * Rocket system that boosts a spacecraft into Earth orbit or beyond Earth s gravitational pull. A wide variety of launch vehicles …   Universalium

• Launch vehicle — Satellite launch vehicle redirects here. For the Indian rocket, see Satellite Launch Vehicle A Russian Soyuz lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan heading for the ISS In spaceflight, a launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket… …   Wikipedia

• Launch pad — A launch pad is the area and facilities where rockets or spacecrafts liftoff. A typical launch pad consists of the service and umbilical structures. The service structure provides an access platform to inspect the launch vehicle prior to launch.… …   Wikipedia

• Launch Services Alliance — In July 2003, Arianespace joined with Boeing Launch Services and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to create the Launch Services Alliance. The flagship launchers for the Launch Services Alliance are Arianespace s Ariane rocket, Boeing s Sea Launch… …   Wikipedia

• Launch 5 — is a restored NYPD Patrol Launch presently in use as a US Coast Guard Auxiliary Facility as well as for volunteer non profit environmental, public safety and educational work. Launch 5 enjoys a rich history beginning with her construction and… …   Wikipedia

• platform — plat‧form [ˈplætfɔːm ǁ fɔːrm] noun [countable] 1. the raised place beside a railway track where you get on and off the train 2. a system used to broadcast television or radio programmes 3. a tall structure built so that people can work around the …   Financial and business terms

• Platform as a service — (PaaS) is an outgrowth of the Software as a Service application delivery model. The PaaS model makes all of the facilities required to support the end to end life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available… …   Wikipedia

• launch pad — launch pads 1) N COUNT A launch pad or launching pad is a platform from which rockets, missiles, or satellites are launched. ...the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. 2) N COUNT A launch pad or launching pad is a situation, for example a job, which… …   English dictionary

• Platform Productions — is a major distributor of television content in Pakistan and also to Kawish Television Network KTN TV and Kuch Reh Jeewiyal Pall and Alif Laila which have proved to be superhit shows in Sindhi television history are also from Platform Productions …   Wikipedia

• launch pad — launch′ (or launch′ing) pad or launch′pad n. 1) mil the platform on which a rocket, missile, etc., is launched 2) something that serves to launch or initiate • Etymology: 1955–60 …   From formal English to slang