launching platform
launch platform

I went out on the street as usual one morning, then went to the uptown launching platform and ordered a cab.

"Apparently he works on the construction gang that's building the concrete launching platform for the Titan."

By the next afternoon the four- stage, red-finned rocket stood poised on its concrete launching platform inside a light metal scaffolding.

She had introduced the Sopwith Pup single-seat fighter, and this aircraft could take off from her launching platform in only 20 feet in a 20-knot wind.

Bulky mobile launching platforms also proved to be expensive to operate and difficult to transport.

Aircraft continued to be a primary launching platform, including the newly available helicopter, though homing torpedoes can also be launched from surface ships or submarines.

Missiles and their launching platforms.

But using the White House as a political launching platform has its risks.

The plane, known as 008, was an airborne launching platform for many experimental craft and rockets, including the X-15.

The giant moveable launching platforms, built to move Apollo moon rockets 30 years ago, were modified in the 1980's for shuttles.