Cape Canaveral


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Ca•nav•er•al

(kəˈnæv ər əl)

n.
Cape, a cape on the E coast of Florida: site of John F. Kennedy Space Center. Formerly (1963–73), Cape Kennedy.
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Noun1.Cape Canaveral - a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of FloridaCape Canaveral - a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight
Everglade State, FL, Florida, Sunshine State - a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
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The 1980s band will have lift-off at 10.30pm on Cape Canaveral in Florida, where Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
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In a twist, NASA launched the Mars InSight lander from California rather than Florida's Cape Canaveral. It was the first interplanetary mission ever to depart from the West Coast, drawing pre-dawn crowds to fog-socked Vandenberg Air Force Base and rocket watchers down the California coast into Baja.
The Hispasat 30W-6 (H30W-6) satellite has reached the SpaceX launch site in Cape Canaveral (Florida).
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dhu-AlHijjah 2, 1437, Sep 3, 2016, SPA -- SpaceX said on Friday it would shift Florida flights to a nearly completed second site after damage to its launch pad on Thursday from the explosion of a rocket belonging to the space services company run by Elon Musk, Reuters reported.
Elon Musk's $200 million SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida Thursday, during preparations for a pre-launch static fire test of Israel's Amos 6 communications satellite on Saturday, Sept.
In December 2015, SpaceX succeeded in making Falcon's reusable first stage land upright about 6 miles from where it was launched at Cape Canaveral. The rest of the company's attempts to have rocket boosters land on a drone ship have failed.
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Debris from the doomed SpaceX Falcon-9 was apparently discovered by coastguards patrolling the tranquil destination off the Cornish mainland, some five months after the unmanned rocket exploded as it left Cape Canaveral in Florida.