: an installation for testing and launching spacecraft
Examples of spaceport in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebCombined, the military and NASA portions of the spaceport cover more than 150,000 acres of swamp, beaches, and forests on Florida's east coast.—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024 Vice and about a dozen of the company’s flight controllers plan to oversee Dream Chaser’s first space flight, on the back of a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral’s spaceport in Florida.—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 25 June 2024 The details are still murky, but North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a Russian spaceport last September and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who suggested Russian help for the North's satellite launch program was on the agenda at the summit.—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024 Putin seemed to confirm as much when he was asked during a meeting with Kim at a spaceport in Russia in September 2023 whether Moscow would help North Korea build and launch satellites.—Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for spaceport
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