Spaceport

Word SPACEPORT
Character 9
Hyphenation space port
Pronunciations /ˈspeɪs.pɔːt/

Definitions and meanings of "Spaceport"

What do we mean by spaceport?

An installation for sheltering, testing, maintaining, and launching spacecraft. noun

A facility where vehicles are launched into space. noun

A site for launching spacecraft. noun

A site for launching spacecraft.

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The word "spaceport" in example sentences

Commercial flights will fly out of New Mexico where a spaceport is under construction. ❋ AP (2010)

Commercial flights will depart from New Mexico, where a spaceport is under construction. ❋ Associated Press (2010)

The spaceport is being built about midway between Van Horn and the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The New Mexico spaceport is to be environmentally friendly in consideration of the local surroundings, featuring an eye looking up into space, Branson said. ❋ Edward Willett (2006)

The spaceport is slated to be built in Sandy Mines on Cape Breton, in the eastern province of Nova Scotia, the New Scientist reported. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The spaceport is predicted to bring as many as 4,000 jobs to the region. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I'm down here at the Bespin spaceport, workin 'on your personal fighter, just wanted to go over a couple things with ya' before I do any work. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The spaceport was a fair distance from this region. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By midmorning, it'd led me back through the town and out to the so-called spaceport once more. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He glared out the window as the car maneuvered its way through the traffic, splitting his attention between the dull fatigue ache in his arms and his slow seethe at that fiasco the locals euphemistically called a spaceport baggage collection center. ❋ Zahn, Timothy (2001)

The far side of the spaceport was a long white line of beach, just visible some days, and then, invisibly far, the Neck. ❋ Niven, Larry (1997)

It was as though the spaceport were the whole of the island city-state of Serriolia. ❋ Maxwell, Ann (1988)

The spaceport was a narrow ledge, so narrow as to be a dimensionless line until Speaker moved the ship inward. ❋ Niven, Larry, 1938- (1970)

Maybe he should have called the spaceport police and turned the five men over to them, making the distinctly improbable statement that they'd seemed about to attack him so he'd subdued them. ❋ Leinster, Murray (1964)

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