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Uncommon card · Science
Launch pad, an Uncommon card
A launch pad is an above-ground facility from which a rocket-powered missile or space vehicle is vertically launched.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Launch pad quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Launch pad card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term launch pad can be used to describe just the ______ launch platform, or the entire complex.
Answer
central. The term launch pad can be used to describe just the central launch platform, or the entire complex. From the Launch pad article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Hydraulic cylinder. Hydraulic cylinder 68 · Launch pad 64 · Longline fishing 61 · Diogo Cão 58 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term launch pad can be used to describe just the central launch platform, or the entire complex.
- The entire complex will include a launch mount or launch platform to physically support the vehicle, a service structure with umbilicals, and the infrastructure required to provide propellants, cryogenic fluids, electrical power, communications, telemetry, rocket assembly, payload processing, storage facilities for propellants and gases, equipment, access roads, and drainage.
- Most launch pads include fixed service structures to provide one or more access platforms to assemble, inspect, and maintain the vehicle and to allow access to the spacecraft, including the loading of crew.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Launch pad article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Launch pad
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Launch pad (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA/Richard Clark, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
