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LC9, LC-9, or LC/9 may refer to: * LC9, a rocket launch pad at the Andøya Rocket Range , , or is the northernmost island in the Vesterålen archipelago, situated about inside the Arctic Circle. Andøya is located in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The main population centres on the island include the villages of ..., Norway * Buick V6 LC9, an engine made by General Motors from 1978 to 1979 * Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 9, a rocket launch pad in Florida * LC9 (band), a South Korean boy group * Ruger LC9, a semi-automatic pistol * LC9 Vortec 5300, a small-block engine made by General Motors {{Letter-NumberCombDisambig ...
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Andøya Rocket Range
, , or is the northernmost island in the Vesterålen archipelago, situated about inside the Arctic Circle. Andøya is located in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The main population centres on the island include the villages of Andenes, Bleik, and Risøyhamn. The island has an area of , making it the tenth largest island in Norway. The island is connected to the neighboring island of Hinnøya via the Andøy Bridge. The Andfjorden lies to the east of the island, the Risøysundet strait lies to the south and east side of the island, and the Gavlfjorden lies to the southwest side. The Norwegian Sea lies to the west and north. The numerous bog areas on Andøya are used for the extensive production of peat. Andøya is also well known for its cloudberries. Besides the flat and largely continuous bog areas, Andøya also consists of steep mountain ranges reaching up to high. The sharp peak of Kvasstinden is the highest point on the island at . Andøya Space, which w ...
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Buick V6 Engine
The Buick V6 is an Overhead valve engine, OHV V6 engine developed by the Buick division of General Motors Corporation, General Motors and first introduced in 1962. The engine was originally and was marketed as the ''Fireball'' engine. GM continued to develop and refine the V6, eventually and commonly referred to simply as the 3800, through numerous iterations. The 3800 made the Ward's 10 Best Engines#20th century, Ward's 10 Best Engines of the 20th Century list and made Ward's yearly 10 Best list numerous times. It is one of the most-manufactured engines in automotive history, with over 25 million produced. The engine originally derived from Buick's Buick V8 engine#215, aluminium V8 family, which also went on to become the Rover V8, manufactured from 1960–2006. Overview The 3800's block is cast iron and all variants use iron, two-valve-per-cylinder Overhead valve engine, OHV heads. The engine, originally designed and manufactured in the United States, was also produced in la ...
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 9
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida. Headquartered at the nearby Patrick Space Force Base, the station is the primary launch site for the Space Force's Eastern RangeCAST 1999, p. 1-12. with four launch pads currently active (Space Launch Complexes 36, 40, 41 and 46). The facility is south-southeast of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island, with the two linked by bridges and causeways. The Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Skid Strip provides a runway close to the launch complexes for military airlift aircraft delivering heavy and outsized payloads to the Cape. A number of American space exploration pioneers were launched from CCSFS, including the first U.S. Earth satellite (1958), first U.S. astronaut (1961), first U.S. astronaut in orbit (1962), first two-man U.S. spacecraft (1965), first U.S. uncrewed lunar lan ...
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Ruger LC9
The Ruger LC9 (standing for "Lightweight Compact 9mm") is a 9mm caliber, recoil-operated, locked breech, hammer fired, semi-automatic pistol announced by Sturm, Ruger & Co. at the 2011 SHOT Show. Overview The LC9 has a barrel, and is long and tall. The LC9 is wide, and weighs with an empty magazine. It features a black polymer (glass-filled nylon) frame and blued alloy steel slide and barrel. The gun ships with one magazine, including two interchangeable base pads—one that fits flush with the frame, and the other (fitted to the magazine from the factory) that provides a grip extension of about . This pistol has safety features, including a loaded chamber indicator and magazine disconnect safety, that allow it to be also sold in California and Massachusetts. In 2013, Ruger released a 9-round extended magazine for the LC9. Variants LC380 The LC380 is a .380 ACP caliber pistol that has the more advanced design elements of the LC9 compared to the more basic design ...
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