Definition of cosmodrome in English:
cosmodrome
nounˈkɒzmədrəʊmˈkɑzməˌdroʊm
(in the countries of the former Soviet Union) a launching site for spacecraft.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was not clear why the capsule missed its target site in Kazakhstan, home of the former Soviet space programme where Russia now leases its main facility, the Baikonur cosmodrome.
- The satellite will be carried into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by a Soyuz launcher.
- Soyuz vehicles will launch both spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- The Baikonur cosmodrome was constructed in the 1950s and is the world's oldest working launch site.
- The first will rise from the Baikonur cosmodrome by the end of 2005.
- The next crew of the International Space Station is preparing to launch on 1 October from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
- The Edusat was launched from the Sriharikota cosmodrome on September 20.
- The Baikonur cosmodrome has been the launch site of all of the Russian piloted spaceflights, including Sputnik 1 and this Soyuz-TM rocket.
- The first of the two launches will be performed from the Baikonur cosmodrome by the end of 2005.
- A single tourist accompanied by one astronaut could go on each trip in a modified Soyuz-TMA capsule - to be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- They went to the cosmodrome at Plesetsk, along with other young scientists from Edinburgh and Zurich and a party from the European Space Agency.
- Plesetsk has an excellent record as more than 2000 orbital launches have taken place at the cosmodrome since the early 1960s.
- Publicity photo before training began at the cosmodrome.
Origin
1950s: from cosmo- + drome, on the pattern of aerodrome.
Definition of cosmodrome in US English:
cosmodrome
nounˈkɑzməˌdroʊmˈkäzməˌdrōm
(in the countries of the former Soviet Union) a launching site for spacecraft.
Example sentencesExamples
- Plesetsk has an excellent record as more than 2000 orbital launches have taken place at the cosmodrome since the early 1960s.
- The first will rise from the Baikonur cosmodrome by the end of 2005.
- The Baikonur cosmodrome was constructed in the 1950s and is the world's oldest working launch site.
- The first of the two launches will be performed from the Baikonur cosmodrome by the end of 2005.
- They went to the cosmodrome at Plesetsk, along with other young scientists from Edinburgh and Zurich and a party from the European Space Agency.
- The satellite will be carried into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by a Soyuz launcher.
- A single tourist accompanied by one astronaut could go on each trip in a modified Soyuz-TMA capsule - to be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- It was not clear why the capsule missed its target site in Kazakhstan, home of the former Soviet space programme where Russia now leases its main facility, the Baikonur cosmodrome.
- The next crew of the International Space Station is preparing to launch on 1 October from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
- Publicity photo before training began at the cosmodrome.
- The Edusat was launched from the Sriharikota cosmodrome on September 20.
- Soyuz vehicles will launch both spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- The Baikonur cosmodrome has been the launch site of all of the Russian piloted spaceflights, including Sputnik 1 and this Soyuz-TM rocket.
Origin
1950s: from cosmo- + drome, on the pattern of aerodrome.