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noun

a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.

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Also called window.

Origin of launch window

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby launch window

launch control center, launcher, launch pad, launch shoe, launch vehicle, launch window, launder, launderette, laundress, laundrette, laundromat

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How to use launch window in a sentence

Several countries sent missions to the red planet in June last year, taking advantage of a launch window.
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The broadcast above should begin around 15 minutes prior to the opening of the launch window, so long as everything is tracking on time.
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The new launch window is December 19, between the hours of 10 AM to 2 PM PST.
Virgin Orbit targets launch window on December 19 for second orbital test launch|Darrell Etherington|November 30, 2020|TechCrunch
The interior video shows the gunman firing the shot through the window.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
An arrow appears indicating the direction you will launch your ball.
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In fact, these kinds of advances helped give religion another huge window of opportunity for racial reconciliation in the 1960s.
No Gods, No Cops, No Masters|James Poulos|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
With those words was a promise to launch the first group of passengers in the coming year.
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But at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.
Confidence|Henry James
The east window in this church has been classed as the A1 of modern painted windows.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
The clerks had not arrived yet, and he beguiled the time by looking out of the staircase window.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
As the window dropped, Ripperda saw the wounded postilion fall on the neck of his horse.
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British Dictionary definitions for launch window

launch window

noun

the limited period during which a spacecraft can be launched on a particular mission

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