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    Launch control is an electronic aid to assist drivers of both racing and street cars to accelerate from a standing start. Motorcycles have been variously...
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  • term launch control can refer to: Launch control (automotive), an automotive control option A spaceport, a rocket launch site A missile launch control center...
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    The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center (commonly known as just the Launch Control Center or LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
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  • The Improved Launch Control System was a system used by the United States Air Force's Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile force. The system...
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    The Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) provides a survivable launch capability for the United States Air Force's LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental...
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    A launch control center (LCC), in the United States, is the main control facility for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). A launch control center...
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    Airborne Launch Control Centers (ALCC—pronounced "Al-see") provide a survivable launch capability for the United States Air Force's LGM-30 Minuteman Intercontinental...
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    Most launch vehicles operate from a launch pad, supported by a launch control center and systems such as vehicle assembly and fueling. Launch vehicles...
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    Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) is an integral part of the Minuteman ICBM command and control system and provides a survivable launch capability...
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    crawler-transporters to carry mobile launcher platforms between the VAB and the pads, Orbiter Processing Facility buildings, a Launch Control Center which contains the...
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    mission, the NASA launch control center in Florida (Mercury Control Center, later the Launch Control Center) began handing off control of the vehicle to...
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  • are usually connected, physically and/or electronically, to a missile launch control center. With the introduction of the Soviet UR-100 and the U.S. Titan...
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    spacecraft remains with the Launch Control Center until the booster has cleared the launch tower. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center assumes responsibility...
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    hardened Launch Control Facility (LCC) and an above-ground Launch Control Support Building (LCSB). MAFs were formerly known as Launch Control Facilities...
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    Cheyenne, Wyoming, near Chugwater, was a United States Air Force ICBM launch control facility. It was operated by the 400th Missile Squadron constructed...
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    all-wheel-drive vehicle. It is one of the first production cars to feature launch control and a dual-clutch transmission as well. The overall body is made out...
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  • and readiness status before a launch can proceed. For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director...
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    launched an investigation and a start sequence (launch control) system was discovered in the cars' onboard computer systems but no traction control....
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    colloquially as The Voice of Mission Control. Space centers and mission control center Baikonur Cosmodrome (launch control center for Roscosmos in Baikonur...
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    Starbase—previously, SpaceX South Texas Launch Site and SpaceX private launch site—is an industrial complex and rocket launch facility that serves as the main...
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    Operation Looking Glass (category United States command and control aircraft)
    Glass aircraft were equipped with the Airborne Launch Control System, capable of transmitting launch commands to U.S. ground-based intercontinental ballistic...
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    wheel speed sensor Other functions include: Launch control Fuel pressure regulator Rev limiter Wastegate control and anti-lag Theft prevention by blocking...
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    the required delta-v. Most launches are by expendable launch systems. The Pegasus rocket for small satellites instead launches from an aircraft at an altitude...
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  • hardened Launch Control Center (LCC) and an above-ground Launch Control Support Building (LCSB). MAFs were formerly known as Launch Control Facilities...
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    for manual transmission models, GT-R-inspired paddle shifters with launch control for automatic transmission models, an even sportier suspension setup...
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    Mission Control Center in the nearby city of Korolyov, and the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center located in Star City in Moscow Oblast. Its launch facilities...
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    gunner's and electronic warfare officer's stations were replaced with two launch control stations. Command and telemetry systems were added, and high-speed cameras...
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    assigned to the 95th Wing of Air Force Global Strike Command. The Airborne Launch Control System operations flight provides combat forces for the United States...
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    each operator has one of two launch keys; once the order is verified, they must insert the keys in slots on the control panel and turn them simultaneously...
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  • Missile combat crew (category Nuclear command and control)
    Combat Crew-Airborne (MCC-A) operating the Airborne Launch Control System which provides a survivable launch capability for the Minuteman ICBM force. Crew size...
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