What does LS stand for?

Launch Station

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The quirky city of Kiruna is also famous for its space research, with a rocket launch station and a site from where the Virgin Galactic is set to take off on its space voyage -- flying passengers for the first time into the Northern Lights.

White out in the wild; Sweden's frozen north is a dramatic, untouched ...

the launch station, the orbital station and the space colony called INDICO (International Diversified Integrated Colony).

City student wins NSS award

This satellite, the rocket and the launch station are entirely Iranian-built, achieved by particularly talented scientists and technicians," Ahmadinejad told reporters during his trip to Istanbul on Friday, IRNA reported.

Iran says launches first home-built satellite

And it could function as a launch station for Harrier jet sorties to deal with the remaining Iraqi resistance.

DIGITAL WARRIORS; Elite hi-tech fighting force leads hunt for missing ...

The longer range Spike, recently redesignated Spike-LR, can be used in the same way, but it also transmits imagery back to the launch station via an optical fibre, allowing the operator to make corrections to the flight path.

Ground-based missiles: the Euromissile Milan series entered service ...

That's not out of the ordinary with balloons," launch station director Ravi Sood said.

Giant balloon sent on space voyage

A Motorola factory in Chandler, Arizona is churning out a new communications satellite every five days and the Medill News Service reports that commercial rockets "are going up almost every week" -- largely from launch stations in China and Kazakstan [see "US Space Junk Falls on Siberia," Spring '98 EIJ].

Zapped from space

Tony Blackburn: First voice heard on Radio One and famed for playing The Move's Flowers In The Rain to launch station.

AND PROVING OLD IS BEST, THE 50 BEST POP SONGS OF ALL TIME; TOGETHER ...