How to Use spaceport in a Sentence

spaceport

noun

• 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
• Once the storm plowed into the Atlantic, teams returned to the spaceport to continue preparations and reschedule the launch.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
• 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 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

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024