Baikonur
noun
a launching site for sp-cecraft in central kazakhstan; formerly the centre for the soviet sp-ce programme, now leased from kazakhstan by russia
contemporary examples
the russians began to develop their launch industry as a commercial enterprise centered on the baikonur facility in kazakhstan.
u.s. spy satellites riding russian rockets into sp-ce christopher d-ckey march 14, 2014
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