cosmodrome
A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built…A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.
» The Progress 75 spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Meaning
1 sensesA site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.
Weltraumbahnhof, Kosmodrom
космодро́мkosmodróm
космодро́мkosmodróm
Examples
3 sentencesThe Progress 75 spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The 75P is at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome packed with nearly three tons of food, fuel and supplies.
A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Translations
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Origin
From cosmo- + -drome, modelled after aerodrome.From cosmo- + -drome, modelled after aerodrome.
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Forms
plural: cosmodromes| Singular | cosmodrome |
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