How to Use spaceport in a Sentence

spaceport

noun
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  • The sun is now rising over the spaceport and the winds are calm.
    — Washington Post, 11 July 2021
  • This was the eighth Falcon 9 launch from the spaceport this year.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The success of Orbital means the success of the spaceport.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2018
  • The spaceport also served as the home for NASA's space shuttle fleet.
    — Tariq Malik Space.com Managing Editor, Fox News, 29 May 2017
  • And the space bill will allow the construction of spaceports, and the launch of missions from Britain.
    — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg.com, 19 June 2017
  • Visitors can check out the exhibits and shows at the space center, or take a bus tour of the spaceport.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The telescope will sail through the Panama Canal to Europe’s spaceport near Kourou.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 May 2021
  • If a vehicle doesn't make it to the spaceport in time for prep, the window will shut on their fingers.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 2 May 2018
  • More: Small rockets, big dreams: More spaceports are taking root across the U.S.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 3 May 2018
  • About 30 minutes from the igloo is the set of Mos Espa, the spaceport town where Anakin was discovered as a young slave.
    — Griffin Shea, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • The spaceport opened on the cusp of a national recession.
    — Lee Roop, AL.com, 6 July 2017
  • The latest mishap is the fourth time a satellite launched from the Khomeini spaceport has failed to reach outer space.
    — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
  • Under the stars with the Ariane 6 launch base at Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
  • Putin himself has intervened to try to get the high-profile spaceport project back on track.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Sep. 2018
  • This booster has been linked to Sea Launch's floating spaceport as well as human launches in the mid-2020s.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 June 2020
  • In a flight in December 2020, the rocket motor failed to ignite and the spacecraft glided back to the spaceport.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
  • Marc Andrew, from nearby Newquay, traveled to the spaceport after work to see the aircraft land this week.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • All those sats will need a ride into space, and that’s music to the ears of launch providers in search of missions and spaceports in need of working tenants.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2018
  • As a result, Kennedy Space Center had to learn how to become a spaceport landlord.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Rather than agree to those demands, on March 3 OneWeb suspended that launch, plus all launches from the Baikonur spaceport.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 4 Mar. 2022
  • About half of the 15 visitors over the last day included those who were passing through town to see the spaceport or catch a glimpse of Branson's flight.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, USA TODAY, 13 July 2021
  • At times, the spaceport feels as much like a prototype as Soleri’s drawings.
    — Ingrid Burrington, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Originally scheduled for Tuesday, the launch from the spaceport in Van Horn, Texas, will now take place at 8:30 a.m.
    — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Tuesday's launch will be the 20th Soyuz flight from the European spaceport in South America since then.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2018
  • The spaceport proposal calls for much of that to be cleared away without explaining how.
    — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Britain’s space agency announced plans to create a spaceport from which to launch rockets.
    — Robert Wall, WSJ, 21 July 2018
  • Instead, its space agency has relied on spaceports closer to the equator, like that in French Guiana.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Mar. 2015
  • Modern couches line the floor-to-ceiling windows at the spaceport with panoramic views of the surrounding desert.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This is America’s busiest spaceport, and the water is coming.
    — John Schwartz, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2016
  • This money will go into a fund to pay for maintenance and upgrades to infrastructure used by all launch companies at the spaceports.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024

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