India's workhorse launch vehicle, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has been used to bring small satellites into orbit for over two decades.
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"The fundamental reason for that is that takes a small launch vehicle and turns it into a medium-sized launch vehicle," says Beck.
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Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV is India's workhorse launch vehicle, and has so far successfully carried 113 satellites, of which 74 were for international customers, ISRO said on its website.
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Just before midnight on Valentine's Day, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched from the coast, carrying a total of 104 satellites—the most ever deployed from a single launch vehicle at once.
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Mark down another point for the peaceful launch vehicle hypothesis.
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The launch vehicle itself is "fully dialed in," he told me.
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The missile was fired on Sunday from a mobile launch vehicle.
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The company will try to launch vehicle again tomorrow around 7AM ET.
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Let's hope this launch vehicle performs better than the company's graphic designers.
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The satellites launched successfully this morning aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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The reports included photographs of the blastoff from a mobile launch vehicle.
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The satellite was launched on Thursday through an indigenously developed launch vehicle.
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It was deemed too risky to have just one launch vehicle for missions.
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"There's a thing called the tyranny of small launch vehicle economics," says Miller.
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A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-22 minute.
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Blue Origin will soon have its heavy-lift launch vehicle, New Glenn, operational.
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Today, SpaceX is a second provider on the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
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The SLS program has maintained the U.S. government's expertise in launch vehicle development.
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Rocket launch startup Skyrora, an Edinburgh-based company that's developing a new launch vehicle for small satellites, has successfully tested its new rocket engines in their first stationary ground-firings, a huge step on the way toward developing their launch vehicle.
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An effort with Ukraine to build a satellite launch vehicle was scrapped in 2015.
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Manufacturing facility for the heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle is coming along nicely.
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It said coverings obscured whether a space-launch vehicle was present on the pad.
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Video from today's very successful drop test of our #LauncherOne small satellite launch vehicle.
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Vulcan is ULA's next-generation heavy lift launch vehicle, which is currently in development.
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Cadillac, Volvo and Porsche were among the first automakers to launch vehicle subscription services.
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"The Iranian regime fired off a space launch vehicle today," Pompeo said in January.
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Today the facility is a skunkworks for a potentially revolutionary space launch vehicle called Starship.
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The German contribution was to pay for a launch vehicle and conduct the mission operations.
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It's not yet clear what damage to the launch vehicle has resulted from the incident.
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Northrop Grumman, which is building a launch vehicle called OmegA, will receive up to $792 million.
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They launched on June 23rd on an Indian rocket called the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
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The Air Force refers to it as an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contract.
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"It's really been a massive infrastructure build, as well as a launch vehicle build," says Beck.
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In fact, SpaceX has confirmed that the launch vehicle will be an older, v 1.1 rocket.
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This week's spectacular test confirmed the Falcon Heavy as the planet's most powerful operational launch vehicle.
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So the first stage of a launch vehicle is just like the engines on an ICBM.
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If you can get a heavy lift launch vehicle for under $100 million it changes everything.
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"The launch vehicle and spacecraft are secure in the Mobile Service Tower," an ULA spokesperson said.
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Rocket Lab's launch vehicle, a multi-stager called "Electron", underwent its first test in May 2000.
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If a company wanted to buy out the entire launch vehicle, that might also be feasible.
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It's "just not feasible, because then a small launch vehicle becomes a large vehicle," he explained.
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Its fairing has double the usable volume of any "existing launch vehicle," according to Blue Origin.
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The recovery system is under development at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing.
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Iran's August 29 attempt to launch a space launch vehicle underscores the urgency of the threat.
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But the Dream Chaser won't be the only hotly anticipated private launch vehicle premiering this year.
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Since this launch occurred in Florida, the Federal Aviation Administration had to approve the launch vehicle.
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United Launch Alliance uses a launch vehicle reliant on the Russian engines, known as RD-85033s.
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Iran has successfully tested a space launch vehicle capable of sending satellites into space, Reuters reports.
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Northrop Grumman, which is building a launch vehicle called OmegA, will receive up to $792 million.
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The 230th mission for Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle is slated for takeoff Thursday morning.
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Blue Origin also intends to use the BE-4 on its as-yet unnamed orbital launch vehicle.
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Stratolaunch strives to launch the first of its new rockets, a "Medium Launch Vehicle," starting in 2022.
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Stages to the moon One year before the landing, the Apollo 11 launch vehicle was in pieces.
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It will fly to the approximate cruising altitude of a commercial airliner before launching a launch vehicle.
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At 60,000 km (37,000 miles) above Earth, the spacecraft will split off from the Falcon launch vehicle.
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Every object must be strong and compact enough to fold into the faring of a launch vehicle.
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Iran on Thursday suffered a failure of a satellite launch vehicle that blew up on the ground.
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Vector Space Systems on Thursday flight tested its Vector-R launch vehicle from Spaceport Camden in Georgia.
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"We can produce one launch vehicle in this machine every 12 hours," Beck says in the video.
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Remember in 1998 when they launched a space-launch vehicle, what were conditions like in North Korea?
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The mission is scheduled to launch on July 15 aboard ISRO's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III.
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Firefly's Alpha launch vehicle Firefly's Alpha launch vehicle "It's okay to move fast and it's okay to make mistakes, but let's not make other peoples' mistakes and let's not make our own mistakes twice," Markusic said, characterizing the benefits of teaming up with someone with lots more experience.
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The Momo rocket is a small launch vehicle designed to lower the cost of launching satellites into space.
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One Russian satellite has made at least 11 approaches to its own defunct launch vehicle while in orbit.
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She became an expert FORTRAN programmer and contributed to the Scout Launch Vehicle Program before retiring in 1971.
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Last year, India tested a scale model of a Reusable Launch Vehicle, which resembles the US space shuttle.
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The merger proposal raises the financial intricacy toward the level of the circuitry in the SpaceX launch vehicle.
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And then four weeks later, here we are with the next launch vehicle, this time for the NASA.
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If you think you have a dedicated launch vehicle and you're doing a rideshare then you're fooling yourself.
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So in effect, doubling the width and height leads to a launch vehicle about eight times as voluminous.
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For these reasons, they could be easier to fit into a launch vehicle and even cheaper to launch.
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North Korea has also deployed a new nine-axle missile transport-and-launch vehicle, according to the photographs.
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Orbex is leaning on 3D printing to expedite its launch vehicle production process, while also keeping costs low.
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Blue Origin completed the 10th test flight of its New Shepard launch vehicle and capsule system in January.
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Paris time, the PicSat and 30 other satellites took their trip on board India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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Why Falcon Heavy matters This rocket is by far the most powerful operational launch vehicle in the world.
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It also debuted a new launch vehicle, the Falcon Heavy, which became the world's most powerful operational rocket.
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The BFR will be a reusable launch vehicle capable of taking 150 metric tons to low Earth orbit.
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TeamIndus' Choice of Rocket When asked what the delay was in securing a launch, TeamIndus' co-founder, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle / Image courtesy of ISRO India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle / Image courtesy of ISRO Rahul Narayan explained that their situation is a bit different than other X-Prize competitors.
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"The FAA's authority is over the launch vehicle; once the payload separates, they have no authority there," says Weeden.
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India's PSLV launch vehicle has put 209 satellites into orbit for foreign clients, the ISRO said in a statement.
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The SLS is an expendable launch vehicle that has proven expensive to develop and will be costly to operate.
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The rocket will be a reusable two-stage launch vehicle capable of taking 150 metric tons to Earth orbit.
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And since the start of the year the company has been testing several components for the new launch vehicle.
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When it debuts just three years from now, it will be the most versatile launch vehicle on the planet.
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Firefly is still in the development and testing phase of their first launch vehicle, the Alpha rocket and spacecraft.
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About 103 people have already reserved seats aboard Galactic's launch vehicle, SpaceShipTwo, for about $200,000 to $250,000 a piece.
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It is not every day that a successful test of a rocket involves destroying the launch vehicle in midflight.
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That's our rocket launch vehicle for satellites and the first 218D printed rocket ever made anywhere in the world.
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Vaughan became an expert computer programmer and contributed to the Scout Launch Vehicle Program before retiring from NASA in 1971.
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North Korea has also tested a space-launch vehicle that could be modified to work as an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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His company, Blue Origin, was building a reusable launch vehicle that, among other things, planned to take tourists into space.
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However, the website said it was impossible to tell from the satellite imagery whether a space launch vehicle was present.
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The crew was given a "go" for staging and separation from the first stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
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Ford was the first international carmaker to launch vehicle assembly in Russia, opening a plant in St Petersburg in 2002.
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Under the conference version of the NDAA, the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program becomes the National Security Space Launch Program.
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In general, abnormalities in the flight of a manned space launch vehicle are rare but cannot be completely ruled out.
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NASA is building the telescope, and the Europeans are providing the launch vehicle, an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.
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An ISRO Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifting off from a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.
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In the method ultimately employed, a powerful launch vehicle (Saturn V rocket) placed a 50-ton spacecraft in a lunar trajectory.
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That's built into our launch vehicle, in an environment where vehicles are owned that will be helpful for use within families.
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But 1957 was also the year the Soviets launched Sputnik using a space launch vehicle that was the R-7 ICBM.
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The company intends to use this model as its primary launch vehicle, eventually replacing the current Falcon and Falcon Heavy rockets.
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ULA previously had a monopoly on the U.S. Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program for launching sensitive payloads into space.
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"The Imam Khomeini Space Centre was officially opened with the successful test of the Simorgh space launch vehicle", state televison said.
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Either way, shooting down a North Korean missile on the launch vehicle or in the boost phase comes with huge risks.
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On January 22, 2020, test engineers were conducting a planned test of the first stage of the company's "Alpha" launch vehicle.
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"The Imam Khomeini Space Centre was officially opened with the successful test of the Simorgh (Phoenix) space launch vehicle," state television said.
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With the New Zealand pad, Rocket Lab will be in control of the launch site, the tracking facilities, and the launch vehicle.
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SLC-17 was also the birthplace of the Delta rocket family, one of the most commonly used and versatile launch vehicle groups.
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"It's a test of not just the launch vehicle, but all this brand-new infrastructure," Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck told Space.com.
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Bezos' company is the sixth partner that NASA has selected through the Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Flight and Payload Integration Services program.
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Two-year-old OneSpace is developing a 59-ton launch vehicle that it plans to launch for the first time in 2018.
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"As the launch vehicle rockets into orbit, Stratolaunch will fly back to a runway landing for reloading, refueling and reuse," Allen says.
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Under Section 6900 of the current draft, the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program is renamed the "National Security Space Launch Program".
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And if all goes well, it will fly a home-made spacecraft aboard ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PLSV) later this year.
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We had nuclear capabilities back in the day and the launch vehicle that takes satellites into space also takes nuclear weapons unfortunately.
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The problem is that the Space Launch System's congressional backers would never allow a commercial upstart to supersede their favored launch vehicle.
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BUILT by the Indian Space Research Organisation, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle threw itself into the sky at 3.58am GMT on February 15th.
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Beta will be a medium launch vehicle, with greater cargo capacity compared to Alpha and a maximum load of around 8.5 metric tons.
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Airbus is very interested in figuring out how they can potentially build a successful, reusable launch vehicle that can compete directly with SpaceX.
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The Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) takes flight (Image: ISRO)Early this morning, India launched its very first reusable space shuttle.
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Over the years, the company has flown 14 missions into space on third-party rockets, including the UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL launch vehicle.
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Its 385-foot wingspan is the world's largest — but it's necessary to provide room in the middle for its intended launch vehicle cargo.
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There are no indications the launch is for military use despite Pompeo's argument that the launch vehicle incorporates technology used in ballistic missiles.
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The money will be used to expand manufacturing facilities in California and New Zealand for Rocket Lab's small launch vehicle, known as Electron.
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Besides, he says his rocket will be more rugged than the average fragile launch vehicle—more like a missile than SpaceX's Falcon 22.
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Starliner successfully launched into space aboard a rocket Friday morning, but after detaching from the launch vehicle, Starliner did not perform as intended.
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That includes $1.4 billion for prelaunch development, $704 million for mission operations, $54 million for tracking and $422 million for the launch vehicle.
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In comparison, the likelihood of mission success for NASA's current approach is 51 percent, not taking into account the launch vehicle maturity risk.
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Northrop Grumman built the multibillion-dollar satellite, code-named Zuma, and was responsible for choosing the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, both officials said.
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Footage from a North Korean network showed dictator Kim Jong Un inspecting a large satellite launch vehicle at the building last February, Schmerler said.
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Upon liftoff, at precisely 3:45 pm Eastern, the Falcon Heavy rocket took its place as the most powerful launch vehicle in the world.
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In Ottobrunn, Airbus already manufactures solar panels for satellites as well as space propulsion systems and thrust chambers for the Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
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If the North Koreans are smart enough to build themselves a space launch vehicle, then they're damned well smart enough to make an ICBM.
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In fact, there is literally no way to build a conventional launch vehicle that doesn't teach you a whole lot about making an ICBM.
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At 22 feet, ISRO's Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) is a little guy, and its $14 million price tag is similarly minuscule.
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" However, SpaceX alleges that the Air Force "determined that SpaceX's one development launch vehicle," or Starship, "rendered the entire SpaceX portfolio" as "high risk.
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Boeing plans to send its first commercial crew up on the Starliner CST-100 launch vehicle in 2018, and they'll be wearing these suits.
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This second stage, fully reusable rocket is intended to replace SpaceX's Falcon9 launch vehicle, which could happen within the next two to three years.
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Modified left-over shuttle engines will power NASA's delayed Space Launch System (SLS), a giant launch vehicle intended for lunar missions and, eventually, Mars.
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"A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-56 minute," the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), said in a tweet here.
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Starhopper isn't designed to fly to orbit; rather, it's designed to test technology for a far larger and more powerful launch vehicle called Starship.
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ASTRO-H was launched on the Japanese launch vehicle H-IIA from Tanegashima Launch Center on Wednesday, February 17th at 3:45 am EST.
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But RocketLab, the company that is to provide its launch vehicle, had to postpone a test of its system over multiple days in December.
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That's due in part to the redundancy built into the design of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which uses nine Merlin engines working together.
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" Because Relativity Space's launch vehicle is nearly 10 times larger than those made by Rocket Lab or Orbex, "it's a totally different payload class.
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However, once Musk better understood the space market, he saw that there was a massive opportunity to disrupt the launch vehicle market, writes Cantrell.
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Completed in November 2014, this is the newest member of the Long March rocket family developed by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
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A year later, the CubeSat count stayed sub-29, but Rocket Lab won a government contract to study the viability of a little launch vehicle.
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The launch vehicle to get Orion into deep space is the Space Launch System, a next-generation exploration rocket system whose prime contractor is Boeing.
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United Launch Alliance has asked Blue Origin to build the engine for its new launch vehicle so it can stop relying on Russian-made engines.
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The Indian space agency launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C73 at 27:226 am today from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has injected 274 satellites into orbit in a single mission, using its flagship Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C220.
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In February, a single Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket put 103 small satellites into orbit, along with a larger Earth-imaging spacecraft called Cartosat.
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Engineers are troubleshooting a problem with the cargo ship's launch vehicle, an Atlas 5 rocket made by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing partnership United Launch Alliance.
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Paying for a dedicated launch vehicle, like Rocket Lab's Electron, can be more expensive for smallsat operators than hitching a ride on a larger rocket.
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This alternate version would be modified to have nifty folding wings in order to be compatible with the Ariane rocket family, ESA's workhorse launch vehicle.
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Those companies are concerned with prices; they can't afford to spend $100 million-plus on a launch vehicle like operators of giant telecom satellites can.
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The missile that was launched is known as a Simorgh, or Phoenix, which experts said was a copy of North Korea's Unha space launch vehicle.
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It turns out that the rocket was a Sea Dragon, a real-world proposal of what would have been the mightiest launch vehicle ever built.
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North Korea described it as 'crucial' and experts believe that it may have involved an engine for a space launch vehicle or long-range missile.
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The heavy-lift rocket can send 64 metric tons of payload into low Earth orbit, making it the most powerful launch vehicle in the world.
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The Starship spacecraft, a reusable second stage launch vehicle, is designed to launch from Earth on top of a large rocket booster called the Super Heavy.
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The first Falcon Heavy to launch will be sent on an Earth escape trajectory, proving the usefulness of the launch vehicle for those types of missions.
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If SpaceX feels like it has outgrown Kennedy, the Falcon Heavy may be its last new launch vehicle to make a debut at the historic site.
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The first mission is set to launch at the end of this year, in which an MX-1 spacecraft will launch aboard Rocketlab's Electron launch vehicle.
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The Instrument Unit, which provided guidance, control and sequence of vehicle functions, is lowered into place atop the third stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
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At the event, Musk described the current plans for SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, launch vehicle, which hasn't yet been completed and still requires funding.
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Eventually, Starship could replace both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy and become SpaceX's only launch vehicle, reducing individual launch costs considerably and leading to profitable operation.
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The money will go toward Virgin's space tourism program and help accelerate the development of the company's new launch vehicle to send small satellites into orbit.
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A PSLV lifts off (Image: ISRO)Tomorrow, a four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will blast off from India's southern spaceport with 104 satellites on board.
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The 1.75-tonne un-manned spacecraft—known as Reusable Launch Vehicle—will travel to 43 miles above the Earth's surface then descend back to the planet.
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The Soyuz-21-1b rocket—a modernized version of the tried-and-true Russian launch vehicle—took off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 9:23 a.m.
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Musk's proposed Falcon Heavy, a super heavy lift space launch vehicle with a first launch planned for early next year, is designed to carry 54.4 tonnes.
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We're moving rapidly toward a model where you're not buying a spot on a specific launch vehicle – you're buying the ability to get to a destination.
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" Bezos added the following to the caption of his first Instagram post: "Manufacturing facility for the heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle is coming along nicely.
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"Retrieving parts or objects from the launch vehicle are the most important part of the rocket analysis," said Markus Schiller, a rocketry expert based in Germany.
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Speaking at a news conference in Baikonur, Ovchinin said a small fault had been discovered in their Soyuz-FG launch vehicle on Tuesday, but had been fixed.
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There's no peaceful space launch vehicle development that isn't military, and even if there were, there's no way the US and company would trust North Korea anyhow.
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Polaris is a "kickstage," essentially a short-range spacecraft used to deliver satellites to more distant orbits after being taken up to space by a launch vehicle.
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This Wednesday at 22:2000 pm EST, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the SES-63 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida with their Falcon 26 launch vehicle.
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Firefly Aerospace was founded in 2013 and has raised over $95 million so far to bring its first product, the Alpha small satellite launch vehicle, to market.
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Orbital ATK's contract, worth $46.9 million, is for the development of new technologies to serve the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, a US Air Force space launch program.
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The Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide was created more than six years ago "to reintroduce competition" into the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program.
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It is large enough to conceal the first stage of North Korea's Musudan intermediate range ballistic missile, its Unha space-launch vehicle, or a new rocket engine.
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DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Iran has tested its Simorgh (Phoenix) space launch vehicle which can be used to send satellites into space, state television reported on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, the space agency has turned its attention to developing the Space Launch System launch vehicle and Orion spacecraft that could travel to the Moon or Mars.
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"This look likes the space launch vehicle blew up on the launchpad," Dave Schmerler, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, told NPR.
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"Astrobotic is thrilled to select a ULA launch vehicle as the means to get Peregrine to the Moon," said John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic, in a statement.
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Within the latest procurement, the Air Force specifies that companies can put forward a backup launch vehicle, along with a primary rocket, to put satellites into orbit.
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Analysis pointed to a launch vehicle capable of carrying a payload of about 500 kg (1,100 lb) more than 10,000 km (6,200 miles), according to South Korea.
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This new mission, different from the one discussed by owner Elon Musk last year, would have one person fly around the moon in SpaceX's BFR launch vehicle.
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Professor Rao helped India develop its rocket technology, including the first Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, which is still used today to send its own equipment into space.
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Debris from the launch Debris from the launch Launch rail Launch rail Launch vehicle North Korean missile resembling the Russian Iskander in a launch on May 4.
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Jones says that it looks like China is working toward crewed flight, by developing a new huge launch vehicle and concepts for a rocket that can carry people.
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The firm was founded by Peng Xiaobo, a former director of research and development at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, a top state Chinese rocket maker.
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The first dedicated mission from Spaceflight to low Earth orbit proved successful as it launched the largest single rideshare mission from a U.S.-based launch vehicle to date.
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I am happy to be teaming up with Elon Musk and #SpaceX to be the first private passenger to travel around the moon aboard the BFR launch vehicle.
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"The GSLV–MKIII D1/GSAT-19 mission takes India closer to the next generation launch vehicle and satellite capability," Indian prime minister Narendra Modi tweeted after the launch.
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The next planned vehicle, which is in early development, is a heavy version of the Medium Launch Vehicle, a larger variant that can carry more than 13,200 pounds.
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Virgin Orbit is currently working on its own launch vehicle, a rocket that is deployed from the wing of plane in order to carry small satellites to orbit.
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The test was aimed at verifying a new type of precision guidance system and the reliability of a new mobile launch vehicle under different operational conditions, KCNA said.
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She continued to use her incredible skills in an integrated computer division and became an expert programmer, contributing to the Scout Launch Vehicle Program before retiring in 1971.
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Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos, has partnered with NASA to fly and test technology payloads on suborbital flights with the New Shepard launch vehicle.
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As the Verge noted, Huawei was heavily advertising its Mate 10 Pro smartphone in the U.S., and a partnership with AT&T seemed to be its launch vehicle.
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"Close-up pictures of ground test activities are almost unprecedented from the DPRK," John Schilling, an aerospace engineer specialising in satellite and launch vehicle propulsion systems, told Reuters.
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The F-1 engines in Saturn V, the Apollo program's launch vehicle, burned a total of 2,800 tons of fuel at a rate of 12.9 tons per second.
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Yet at the same time, the U.S. continues to rely on heavy-lift rocket engines from Russia to power its most reliable launch vehicle for national security missions.
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Most importantly, the only "backup" launch vehicle currently available will use Russian engines, subverting the very purpose of the Air Force acquisition strategy to move away from those.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle successfully undertook its first commercial mission today, taking a communications satellite to orbit and proving the viability of its heavy-lift rocket platform.
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Orbex also built reusability into their 'Prime' launch vehicle design, and it's 3D-printing its engines in one single piece, working with partner SLM to make this possible.
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Launch startup Firefly Aerospace has overcome its fair share of difficulties, including a bankruptcy filing, but now it's underway with hot-fire testing of its Alpha launch vehicle.
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Space launch startup Orbex has secured a customer for its forthcoming Prime space launch vehicle: TriSept, a provider of launch integration services for both commercial and government customers.
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Starship, once complete, will be "world's most powerful launch vehicle," according to SpaceX, with a cargo capacity of 100 metric tons (that's over 220,000 lbs) to Earth orbit.
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Had NASA been given the greenlight to send humans to Mars after the Apollo program, a super-heavy launch vehicle like the Sea Dragon might have been justified.
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"Close-up pictures of ground test activities are almost unprecedented from the DPRK," John Schilling, an aerospace engineer specializing in satellite and launch vehicle propulsion systems, told Reuters.
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Rocket Lab won't be using propulsion to achieve either re-entry or landing, like SpaceX does, which will be more efficient and practical for a smaller launch vehicle.
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But as Mark Harris reports at IEEE Spectrum, four of these 31 satellites probably shouldn't have been packed to the cargo hold of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
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The launch of Vanguard Satellite Launch Vehicle 22004 (SLV-22006) was scheduled for early evening on 22010 June, and there was a large crowd on the beach to watch.
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Its Mars agenda and its ability to compete for many future launch contracts will rely on a successful first flight of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle later this year.
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And indeed even if it were not, it is hard to imagine that its extremely successful and increasingly reliable Falcon 9 launch vehicle would cease operations any time soon.
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The usually dependable Proton Launch Vehicle, Roscosmos' main rocket, has also suffered problems of its own in recent years, which have slowed things down for the Russian space program.
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It's meant to take the place of the Falcon and Falcon Heavy rockets as a primary launch vehicle, which means lots of re-entry (which means lots of heat).
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This is evident from the manifest of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PDF) that took off in January, which included four "SpaceBEEs" matching the description of Swarm's unauthorized craft.
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Today, Vector Space Systems announced that it has received $1 million in angel funding, which will be used to further develop the project's small launch vehicle, aptly named Vector.
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The contract includes launch vehicle production and mission, as well as integration, launch operations and spaceflight worthiness activities, according to a notice posted by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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The GPS launch contracts won by SpaceX cover production of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, mission integration, launch operations and spaceflight certification, the Air Force said in a statement.
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If NASA is tasked with sending very large and persistent Flagship class missions to the giant planets of the outer solar system, SLS may be the ideal launch vehicle.
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Bezos is funneling $1 billion of his own fortune annually into Blue Origin as it scrambles to fly its own heavy-lift launch vehicle, dubbed New Glenn, in 2020.
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At exactly 84 seconds into the flight, when the rocket was traveling nearly twice as fast as the speed of sound, SpaceX cut the launch vehicle&aposs nine engines.
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Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël revealed onstage that its forthcoming space launch vehicle, the Ariane 6, will aim to deliver the first rideshare mission to the Moon in four years.
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When North Korea first tested its Pukguksong-2 in February, it was confident enough with the system to fire it from a mobile launch vehicle deep inside the country.
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Improvements that SpaceX has made to the Falcon 9 vehicle also mean the smaller launch vehicle can handle many of the satellites that would have required a Falcon Heavy.
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Originally, the space agency was supposed to provide a launch vehicle for the mission, which was a joint effort with the European Space Agency to look for life on Mars.
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It had begun development of its "Medium Launch Vehicle," which it planned to fly in 2022, with a bigger version and a reusable space plane called "Black Ice" to follow.
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Altitude-compensating nozzles are an integral part of many new space launch vehicle concepts, and represented a large part of the development effort behind Lockheed Martin's failed X-33 demonstrator.
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The launch vehicle is named "This One's For Pickering," after former JPL head Sir William Pickering, who led the team that created Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite in space.
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The New Zealand-based company was founded in 2006, and for years pursued smaller projects while putting together the Rutherford rocket engine, which would eventually power its Electron launch vehicle.
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If realized, an operational 39-story launch vehicle may one day fly people to the moon and help colonists move to Mars, perhaps for the price of a modest home.
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Northrop Grumman will be using the VAB to build and prep its OmegA launch vehicle, a new rocket the company is building to transport intermediate and heavy payloads to orbit.
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"China's space launch vehicle industry is expanding to support commercial and rapid satellite launch services and the manned space program," the Department of Defense said in a report to Congress.
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Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, is about to undertake the 10th launch of its New Shepard launch vehicle, with its capsule chock full of experiments.
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The missile was also fired from a mobile-launch vehicle and used a solid-fuel technology that experts say will make it easier to hide and launch on short notice.
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Starliner successfully launched into space aboard a rocket Friday morning, but after detaching from the launch vehicle, it failed to put itself on the correct path to the space station.
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What comes next could set it up as an integral and core part of the U.S. space launch program going forward, regardless of how its own launch vehicle plans proceed.
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It was the most powerful engine test ever conducted at Kennedy Space Center—and with a successful liftoff, the Falcon Heavy would be the most powerful launch vehicle in the world.
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Rocket engines are the most expensive part of a launch vehicle, Schultz says, "and recovery and reuse of the engines alone" could cut space lift costs by 250 to 2100 percent.
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Consider that a satellite, once brought to low orbit by a launch vehicle, must then ascend on its own power to the desired altitude, which may be hundreds of kilometers above.
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THIS JUST IN ... We have liftoff SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket -- the most powerful launch vehicle in the world -- took off overnight from a launch pad in Florida carrying 24 experimental satellites.
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"This is just an experiment, which is a baby step to the final reusable launch vehicle which will take years to realize," he told CNN a week prior to the launch.
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Later this month, the California-based company will try to pull off the inaugural test flight of its Electron rocket — a new launch vehicle capable of sending small satellites into orbit.
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The photo depicts a visitor leaning over the banister at Pyongyang's Mangyongdae Children's Palace, looking out at a model of the Unha 3 Space Launch vehicle in a space-themed hall.
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Additionally, the recently formed Virgin Orbit is developing a new launch vehicle, called LauncherOne, meant to also take off from the wing of an airplane and carry small satellites to orbit.
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Playground slides are built in the shape of rockets and emblazoned with the name of the long-range space launch vehicle widely presumed to be a guise for a ballistic missile.
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The company tried to get this flight off the ground twice this year, but weird behavior on Rocket Lab's launch vehicle forced the company to stand down from both launch attempts.
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Virgin Orbit's launch system supports small satellites aiming for orbit, whereas Virgin Galactic's launch vehicle is designed to propel a sub-orbital passenger vehicle just beyond the edge of Earth's atmosphere.
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Its launch vehicle, called the Electron, boasts a battery-powered rocket engine printed on 3D parts that enables the firm to offer such low pricing and frequent trips, Rocket Lab said.
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Additionally, the country has been developing a heavy-lift launch vehicle, launched 39 rockets in 2018, and has invested over $400 million in its space industry in the last two years.
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The three-stage launch vehicle, named Kwangmyongsong, separated its boosters successfully and put an object, which the North says is an earth observation satellite, into orbit, South Korea said on Tuesday.
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What felt familiar, however, was the breathtaking and (literally) earthshaking excitement of watching a massive man-made launch vehicle destined to push something man-made farther than anyone can now imagine.
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Jeff Bezos -founded Blue Origin has recorded another successful mission for its New Shepard sub-orbital launch vehicle, which is a key step as it readies the spacecraft for human spaceflight.
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The heavy-launch vehicle, which Bezos promises will be able to haul satellites and, eventually, people into orbit, is central to the company's hopes of winning lucrative military and commercial contracts.
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The Starship is SpaceX's new class of super-heavy launch vehicle that will replace the company's current crop of products, and will allow for potential missions around the Moon and to Mars.
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Development of at least the test versions of its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicle will take place in Texas, while Falcon 9 and Dragon work will remain at Hawthorne.
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The problem occurred when a booster rocket on the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, launched from the Soviet-era cosmodrome of Baikonur in the central Asian country, failed in some way, NASA said.
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Recently, the Battlefield has been the launch vehicle for startups in batteries, biotech, bitcoin, cloud computing, consumer hardware, dev tools, education, fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, emerging market connectivity, security and many others.
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The two pilots started their journey at the Mojave Air and Space Port in the California desert, slung under the belly of Virgin's twin-hulled, carbon fiber launch vehicle, the VMS Eve.
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The Chinese launch vehicle academy researchers have said on their website that the parachute-airbag system will be assisted by multiple censors and a sophisticated flight control system to guide the descent.
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" The company signed Maezawa to fly on its BFR launch vehicle on Thursday, in what would be "an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space.
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The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, and so far, JAXA and MHI staff have not been able to approach the launch vehicle for a closer inspection due to safety considerations.
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Its Agency for Defense Development test-fired the Hyunmoo-2B from a mobile launch vehicle at the Taean site in 2015, as observed by Park Geun-hye, the president at the time.
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Ellis said Relativity's approach won't just unlock cost savings due to automation, it will also provide clients with the ability to launch payloads that weren't possible with previous launch vehicle design constraints.
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This fire is a setback, but it does appear that it was at least quickly contained and didn't result in any kind of explosion or total destruction of the test launch vehicle.
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Astra is also different in that it's using aluminum primarily in its launch vehicle, as opposed to the more costly but premium carbon fiber used by Rocket Lab in its Electron vehicle.
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The missile was also fired from a mobile-launch vehicle and used a solid-fuel technology that missile experts say will make it easier to hide it and launch on short notice.
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The missile was also fired from a mobile-launch vehicle and used a solid-fuel technology that missile experts said will make it easier to hide it and launch on short notice.
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A study produced by Aerojet the following year demonstrated that there were no technical obstacles for building such a launch vehicle, even considering the state of rocket design in the early 2202s.
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While Iran has continued missile and space launch vehicle testing, it has not launched another nuclear capable, medium-range ballistic missile since being put "on notice" by the White House in February.
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In addition to innovations like Rosie, Rocket Lab uses 3D printing for components of its launch vehicle engines that result in single-day turnaround for production, versus weeks using more traditional methods.
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Photo: APSpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the Falcon Heavy, the launch vehicle being billed as the most powerful rocket in the world, will be ready for its first launch on February 6th.
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"In this region, Iran has successfully orbited small satellites and announced plans to orbit a larger satellite using the Simorgh space-launch vehicle, which could be configured to be an ICBM," Kripowicz said.
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The launch vehicle used was SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which took off from the company's LC-39A launch facility at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday morning at 113 AM ET (7 AM PT).
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In the early hours of Monday morning, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched its first "Re-usable Launch Vehicle," which at full-size will be able to lift satellites into orbit.
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SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle—an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space.
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"We are pleased to enter into this partnership with Blue Origin and look forward to a successful first flight of our next-generation launch vehicle," ULA CEO said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
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Lo and behold, the upper stages of the Unha-3 — Milky Way 43 in English — are the kind of low-thrust engines we'd expect out of a space launch vehicle, not an ICBM.
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These reports must include all of the details about the launch vehicle that will carry the satellites, the time and location of the launch, and contact information for who is coordinating the launch.
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The company recently made spaceflight history by returning Falcon 9 rockets to landing pads on land and sea - a key step in Musk's ongoing quest to develop a relatively inexpensive, reusable launch vehicle.
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More perplexingly, in the event that a vendor launch vehicle is not ready to fly by 2022, the provider can substitute another previously certified rocket that will not be evaluated during this proposal.
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The database entries suggest the rocket company, founded by the tech mogul Elon Musk, is looking for relatively flat, warm, and hazard-free places to set down its coming launch vehicle, called Starship.
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"This is for the first time the PSLV is carrying out three orbital missions in a single flight," he said in a speech, referring to the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle family of rockets.
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If all goes to plan, Blue Origin's New Glenn launch vehicle will be completely reusable, allowing it to send travelers or payloads into space and then return to earth again, ready for reuse.
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Capable of lifting 140,000 pounds of cargo into lower orbit, it's the most powerful launch vehicle in the world, and it was built at a fraction of the cost of NASA's newest rocket.
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The so-called "Leap Day Deal" collapsed after the North launched a satellite weeks later, because the two sides fundamentally disagreed over whether a satellite launch vehicle counted as a long-range missile.
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Ten months ago, Maesawa garnered worldwide attention by announcing he would spend untold amounts of money to reserve a flight aboard a gargantuan launch vehicle still under development by SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company.
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Organisations expected to bid for funding are joint enterprises or launch vehicle operators and potential launch sites with plans to launch small satellites or sub-orbital flights – including space tourism and micro-gravity flights.
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Space Launch System, or SLS, is the name of a gargantuan new rocket that promises to out-power any launch vehicle ever built and be capable of flinging people toward the moon or Mars.
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According to the tag on the post, the plant shown off in the video is set to build the rocket company's heavy-lift New Glenn launch vehicle, which Bezos showed off earlier this year.
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At least, for those who can shore up the $100,000 needed to stick one of these three-pound hunks of metal in the cargo capsule of a Falcon 9 rocket or similar launch vehicle.
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An unmanned prototype of the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV-TD) launched Monday morning from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, the BBC reports, reaching an altitude of 43 miles before returning to Earth.
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The barrels in the video are being squeezed with loads of 900,000 pounds The material being tested in the video could one day be used for building launch-vehicle structures — aka rockets and boosters.
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The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched a 712 kg Cartosat-2093 satellite for earth observation and 30 other tiny satellites from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 9.29 a.m. (0359GMT).
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The government-backed China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology have designed two versions of a one-piece rocket that would take off on its own power, though some are skeptical of the academy's approach.
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The Air Force relies on the United Launch Alliance (ULA) — a Lockheed and Boeing joint venture — for national security space launches, and the ULA uses a launch vehicle reliant on the Russian engines. Sen.
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The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, a subdivision of the nation's main space-program contractor, wants to build a space elevator by 2045, though company has not released any details about those plans.
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While the purpose of NRO satellites can normally be puzzled out by carefully analyzing the size and details of its launch vehicle, this unusual configuration means that the satellite's exact function remains a mystery.
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It consisted of a full countdown rehearsal, followed by disconnecting the ground systems (that's the "plugs out" part) to see if the systems on the launch vehicle and the spacecraft worked on their own.
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Jeff Bezos' New Glenn rocket, the reusable launch vehicle created by Blue Origin to put people and large cargo into orbit, has a new confirmed payload for one of its first missions: mu Space.
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"Astra's launch vehicle 'One of Three' suffered an anomaly following an otherwise successful day of testing in Kodiak in preparation for a launch this week," explained Astra CEO and founder Chris Kemp via email.
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Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle has received Category 1 certification from NASA, meaning it is authorized for use on more important missions, opening up a whole new revenue stream for the growing launch provider.
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European launch vehicle group Arianespace is facing increased competition for the launch of commercial satellites with the emergence of rivals such as tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin.
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In the past, Congress has said this must go on NASA's Space Launch System rocket, but the White House budget says the agency would save "over $1.5 billion" by using a commercial launch vehicle.
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Just days earlier, the North said it conducted a "very important test" at the site, prompting speculation that it involved a new engine for either a space launch vehicle or an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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"When the spacecraft separated from the launch vehicle, we did not get the orbital insertion burn that we were hoping for," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the press in a briefing after the launch.
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"It seems pretty reasonable to me that if you're going to test a heavy launch vehicle, you see exactly what it can do by throwing out your payload as far as possible," Fitzsimmons said.
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Landing on the moon requires extremely precise propulsion capabilities, even more precise than a launch vehicle or other types of spacecrafts, in order to make a soft touchdown and a safe liftoff back into space.
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Rocket Lab is proceeding as planned with its efforts to recover and reuse spent rocket boosters from its Electron launch vehicle, and it has completed its first prototype parachute for use in the recovery process.
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They're designed to power Blue Origin's forthcoming New Glenn rocket, a massive launch vehicle designed to send heavy satellites and other payloads to orbit, allowing Bezos' company to compete directly with Elon Musk's company, SpaceX.
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"To make this decision, our teams conducted an extensive review of the SpaceX ground operations, launch vehicle design, escape systems, and operational history," Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program said in a statement.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said at a press event for the just-launched Falcon Heavy that SpaceX will now begin focusing in earnest on "BFR," the code name for its next big space launch vehicle.
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The Falcon 9 has already proven its worth as a reliable launch vehicle, having participated in 21 missions in 2018 alone, but the rocket has been equipped with an updated and improved Merlin 1D engine.
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The Russian anti-satellite weapon, which is attached to a space launch vehicle, is expected to target communication and imagery satellites in low Earth orbit, according to one source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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"We are streamlining operations, focusing on the aircraft and our ability to support a demonstration launch of the Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL air-launch vehicle," the company said at the time, according to website GeekWire.
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Several Iranian media outlets have recently suggested that a launch is imminent and the new images appear to show preparations are already underway to send the satellites into orbit using a Simorgh space launch vehicle.
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New York (CNN Business)Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, completed a 10th test flight Wednesday of its suborbital launch vehicle and capsule, indicating the company is getting closer to launching paying customers into space.
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SpaceX's interplanetary transportation system consists of two parts: a spaceship called Starship, which is designed to carry loads of people and cargo, and Super Heavy, a towering launch vehicle that would fire Starship into orbit.
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Sierra Nevada has already built the Dream Chaser space plane to service NASA missions and commercial interests, so the countries whose payloads are sent to space won't bear the burden of launch vehicle development costs.
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"We are streamlining operations, focusing on the aircraft and our ability to support a demonstration launch of the Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL air-launch vehicle," the company said in a statement to GeekWire at the time.
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That Musk was successful in sending a car into Mars' orbit — 142 million miles away from the sun — underscores the power of the Falcon Heavy rocket, which is now the most powerful launch vehicle on Earth.
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The company even helped to book room for 20 satellites on one of the most massive rocket rideshare yet, when an Indian PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket launched 104 satellites into orbit in February 2017.
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North Korea has claimed Monday's test of a short-range ballistic missile was successful and that it was equipped with new precision guidance system, an improved pre-launch automated sequence and a new mobile launch vehicle.
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"The important element we're trying to highlight within ... the broader Air Force process is that there is a regular discounting of the commercial market that is a key factor in U.S. launch vehicle policy," Smith said.
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Choosing Blue Origin's made-in-America BE-4 engine for the next-generation heavy-lift Vulcan launch vehicle is part of ULA's path to ending U.S. reliance on Russia's RD-180 engine for national security missions.
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Companies like Rocket Lab (in which her company has a stake) will increase their volume and cadence and benefit from having a proven track record, taking up a lot of the growth in launch vehicle demand.
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Starliner launched atop an Atlas V launch vehicle provided by Boeing partner United Launch Alliance (ULA), which includes a Centaur upper-stage rocket and a first-stage booster powered by a Russian-made RD-180 engine.
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Orbital said it wants the missiles to build a Minotaur 4 launch vehicle capable of lifting about four times the weight of small rockets like LauncherOne, which is being developed by Richard Branson's California-based Virgin Galactic.
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The Falcon Heavy rocket—the launch vehicle required for the project—has only undergone a single launch, and the Dragon 2 spacecraft, which will carry the two pioneering passengers, has yet to be tested with humans onboard.
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The selection was made in part because Vanguard would use a totally new "research" launch vehicle instead of an adapted military rocket, and because Vanguard had a scientific motivation, largely driven by NRL astronomers including Herbert Friedman.
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Seattle's Spaceflight coordinated the launch, and technically Beresheet is the secondary payload; the primary is the Air Force Research Labs' S5 experimental satellite, which the launch vehicle will take to geosynchronous orbit after the lunar module detaches.
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The demonstrator mission, Archinaut One, would launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle no earlier than 2022, and after achieving a stable orbit, begin extruding a pair of beams that will eventually extend out 32 feet.
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The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology has designed a solid-fuel rocket that could carry a 100 kg (220 lb) payload into low Earth orbit, said Li Tongyu, the head of the agency's carrier rocket development.
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"The fact that you don't need as big a launch vehicle to launch it means you're not constrained by the size of the payload," said Jim Muncy, an independent space policy consultant at the Space Frontier Foundation.
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Block-5 marks the final version of the Falcon 9 lineup before SpaceX introduces its super heavy-lift launch vehicle, dubbed the Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, which will be designed to send manned missions to Mars.
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It's likely Musk's announcement will concern either scaling back those ambitions slightly or successes in reducing the size of various components in the spacecraft, as he's teased a launch vehicle just 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter.
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Instead of taking 18 months to build, Relativity claims that it can make its rockets in 60 days with hundreds of components instead of the hundreds of thousands of parts that comprise a traditionally manufactured launch vehicle.
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LandSpace says it's the first private company in China to receive a license from the government to launch rockets carrying satellites, as well as the first to build a three-stage launch vehicle for such a mission.
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Just days earlier, the North said it conducted a "very important test" at the site on the country's northwestern coast, prompting speculation that it involved a new engine for either an ICBM or a space launch vehicle.
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Blue Origin's deal with Eutelsat is a "definite statement to the industry that Blue Origin will be a viable commercial launch vehicle," said Carissa Bryce Christensen, the chief executive of Bryce Space and Technology, a consulting firm.
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But SpaceX, like the other companies, is also developing a new launch vehicle: It's called Starship and Super Heavy, a rocket and spaceship system that Musk has described as the technology that will allow humans to colonize Mars.
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New York (CNN Business)A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful launch vehicle in the world, roared into the sky overnight for what CEO Elon Musk called the "most difficult launch" his rocket company has ever attempted.
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In early April, the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALVT), a subsidiary of CASC, completed engine tests for its Dragon, China's first rocket meant solely for commercial use, clearing the path for a maiden flight before July.
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The latest contender for that sweet sweet X-Prize money is a Japanese company, which has just obtained a launch vehicle for the shiny metal cheese grater rover it plans to send to the Moon late next year.
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New York (CNN Business)After nearly a decade of funneling money into a project to build a gargantuan rocket that NASA hopes will return astronauts to the moon, the launch vehicle is finally assembled and ready for testing.
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These include finding a low-cost, environmentally friendly launch vehicle to take the solar plant into space, combating the huge in-orbit operation and construction costs, and working out how best to transmit the power back to Earth.
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The rocket, named Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk III, will lift off from the Sriharikota space centre in southern India at 5.28 pm local time (1158 GMT), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on its website.
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Though he told reporters after the successful maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket — the most powerful operational launch vehicle in the world — that he now planned to put most of his company's engineering resources into developing BFR.
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It would be lofted into orbit by a gigantic, reusable carbon-fibre launch vehicle (referred to internally at SpaceX as the "BFR", for "Big Fucking Rocket") that would be, by some distance, the most powerful ever built (see chart).
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But as soon as I entered the silver-roofed museum, which is flanked by an authentic Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle and a Gemini-Titan II rocket, I knew the extra hours of driving were going to be worth it.
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The spacecraft — which is sitting atop the country's most powerful rocket to date, a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle called Mark III — is carrying an orbiter, a lunar lander called Vikram and six-wheeled rover dubbed Pragyan (Sanskrit for "wisdom").
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Flying Atlas also allows ULA to offer a competitive product on the commercial market at a time when we need commercial business to maintain rates, drive prices down, and provide the funding for investment in our new launch vehicle.
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Flying Atlas also allows ULA to offer a competitive product on the commercial market at a time when we need commercial business to maintain rates, drive prices down and provide the funding for investment in our new launch vehicle.
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Assembly of the launch vehicle, called Terran 1, its Aeon engines and R&D will all take place in the new HQ. It's nearly 120,000 square feet, and will be built as a very high-tech manufacturing operation indeed.
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"SpinLaunch is reimagining space launch by revisiting fundamental physics and leveraging proven industrial technologies to create a system that accelerates the launch vehicle to hypersonic speeds using ground-based electricity," the company's CEO, Jonathan Yaney said in a statement.
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That resulted in a failure, but it was due to a third-party piece of the process, according to Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck, and didn't require any significant changes to the Electron launch vehicle before future flight attempts.
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"You can use a less powerful rocket to launch the same satellite, or you can launch a bigger satellite using the same launch vehicle," Lakshmi Kantha, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, tells The Verge.
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The group is currently working with German automobile manufacturer Audi to develop the rover, and it has signed a deal with broker Spaceflight Industries to secure a ride on a commercial launch vehicle (which rocket company is yet to be determined).
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A solid-fuel rocket would, though, be easier to handle than one full of liquid so, though a working autophage rocket is still several years from production, a launch vehicle that eats its way into space looks an attractive idea.
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"Because the satellite orbit and other details of the launch were similar to those of North Korea's last launch, in December 4603, this implies that the launch vehicle was also very similar," Wright wrote in a blog post after the launch.
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The extra landing sites will be needed for SpaceX to recover the rockets from its as-yet-unlaunched Falcon Heavy, a launch vehicle more powerful than the Falcon 9, built from three separate rockets (one primary and two side-boosters).
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For example, it appears that the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program for launching sensitive payloads into space, on which ULA had a monopoly until recently, will remain under the purview of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
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With this joint public-private heavy launch vehicle development approach, there would be no need to make the false choice between a "rocket owned by Elon Musk" and a "rocket owned by the American people," as Jeff Bingham wrote last week.
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After that accident and the other ones that grounded all of America's older space launch vehicles for about two years, NASA and the Air Force decided to build two sets of rockets under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program.
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Rocket launch startup Astra, which had been attempting to claim DARPA's prize for successful demonstration of flexible space launch capabilities until earlier this month, will not be moving forward with an attempted flight of its launch vehicle this week as planned.
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"Interplanetary flight times are 6 to 12 years to Uranus, 8 to 13 years to Neptune, depending on launch year, mission architecture, and launch vehicle," according to a white paper detailing what a mission to Uranus or Neptune might look like.
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Starhopper is an early precursor to Starship, a spaceship design proposed by Musk that would blast off from Earth riding atop an enormous rocket, called Super Heavy, which is slated to be by far the most powerful launch vehicle ever created.
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The new site will be responsible for high-volume production of the Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine, which will be used on the company's own New Glenn orbital rocket as well as the ULA's forthcoming Vulcan heavy-lift launch vehicle.
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Starship, a fully reusable launch vehicle the company is working to develop in Boca Chica, Texas, would blast passengers from one spaceport to another at 4.6 miles per second, or about 12 times as fast as a supersonic-jet flight.
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Space industry heavyweight Northrop Grumman has signed a customer for the launch of its first OmegA rocket, a medium/heavy-lift launch vehicle that it's currently readying for flight with a target of spring 2021 for its first-ever flight.
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Musk has only dropped a few hints about what he'll talk about this week, but we can probably expect the announcement of a smaller launch vehicle, as well as ideas for how to pay for the high costs of developing such a rocket.
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" "An ICBM variant of the Unha could be sufficiently similar to the space launch vehicle in that it would be very likely to succeed, making it a good candidate for a political demonstration even though the Unha would make for a poor missile.
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After liftoff, the first-stage rocket booster — the largest piece of the launch vehicle that gives it the initial thrust — detached from the second-stage of the rocket and steered itself back to an upright landing on a seaborne platform, called a droneship.
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Solar Orbiter launched atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket, featuring a unique configuration of the launch vehicle designed specifically to get the nearly 14,000-pound observation craft off Earth and onto its target path to eventually approach the Sun.
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) used its workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C40), part of an advanced remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2 series or "eye in the sky", for the Friday launch from Sriharikota in southern Andhra Pradesh state at 9.28 a.m.
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For Team HAKUTO, whose rideshare with US-based team Astrobiotic recently fell through, the partnership comes just in the nick of time—the window to secure a launch vehicle to compete for the X-Prize closes at the end of the year.
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The launch vehicle will inherit some technology from the Atlas V and Delta IV rockets, but the booster will be powered by Blue Origin BE-4 engines, and it'll be able to carry larger payloads than either Atlas V or Delta IV Heavy.
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Taepodong-3/Unha-3 Estimated range: 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) Length: 7453 meters Type: Space launch vehicle (SLV) Alongside its intercontinental and intermediate-range missile programs, North Korea has also developed several long-range rockets designed primarily to deliver satellites to space.
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As the engine awards suggest, the question national security experts will soon need to grapple with is whether the nation should continue to support the industrial bases of Russia and China while spending years to develop and certify a new launch vehicle.
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"We tried to work with other launch vehicle companies but all were at least twice the cost of SpaceX and unaffordable based on the scope of the network we needed to launch," Desch said, adding that he remains focused on the future.
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"The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir [Space Launch Vehicle] Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran," the president wrote in a tweet that accompanied the image on Friday.
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"A core team is evaluating options on completing the development of the company's Vector-R small launch vehicle, while also supporting the Air Force and other government agencies on programs such as the recent ASLON-45 award," Vector said in a statement.
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So Waldo invited Mike to live on property he owned on the southern edge of the Mojave in Apple Valley—Waldo had whimsically dubbed it El Ranchito Rakete—and it was there that work commenced on a new-and-improved launch vehicle.
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"We are purposely failing a launch vehicle to make sure that our abort system on the spacecraft that we&aposll be flying for our crews works," Kathy Lueders, the manager of the agency&aposs program, said during a televised press briefing on Friday.
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Kim Dong-yub, a former South Korean military officer and currently an analyst from Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies, said the North mentioning its nuclear deterrent makes it clear it tested a new engine for an ICBM, not a satellite-launch vehicle.
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That's not all it'll carry however: There also will be cargo pertaining to four NASA missions aboard the private launch vehicle, including materials that will support the Deep Space Atomic Clock, the Green Propellant Infusion Mission and two payloads that will serve scientific missions.
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At roughly the size of Danny DeVito, the MX-1E fits inside a launch vehicle from partnering company Rocket Lab; once the craft detaches and shoots moonward, its engine and thrusters slow it down so the moon's gravity can help gently guide its descent.
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India Is Poised to Set a New Space Record TomorrowTomorrow, a four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will blast off from India's southern…Read more ReadIndia has big plans for space travel, with a goal of traveling to Jupiter and Venus in the future.
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A North Korean man looks at a model of the Unha 3 space launch vehicle displayed at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang on April 14, 423 (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Is the United States going to war with North Korea this weekend?
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This launch, which Spaceflight has dubbed the "SSO-A: SmallSat Express," is itself evidence of the sector's growth, marking the company's first purchase of an entire payload of a Falcon 9 and the largest ride-share mission from a US launch vehicle to date.
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About an hour and a half after launch, the Spaceflight launch vehicle will detach from the rocket and, over the next five to six hours, will deploy its payload, starting with the 15 larger microsats, followed by its 49 CubeSats, Orbital Reflector among them.
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It's kind of a PowerPoint-heavy Opening Ceremonies, minus musical numbers, and the ballroom is full of launch vehicle makers, propulsion companies, component constructors, New Space upstarts, Old Space stalwarts, spaceport representatives, and also the guy who sent the first hot dog toward space.
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Addressed to Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, the memo said the Pentagon will look at "whether the U.S. Air Force complied with the Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide when certifying the launch system design for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle-class" SpaceX rockets.
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Estimated to weigh as much as five fully-loaded Boeing Jumbo jets, or 200 fully grown elephants, the GSLV Mk-III rocket is the largest most powerful launch vehicle India has ever produced, and considered a potential game changer for the country's space program.
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"The Simorgh is a two-stage space launch vehicle that uses a cluster of four Shahab-3 engines in its first stage and smaller steering engines in its upper stage," according to according to Jeffrey Lewis, of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
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The United States Pacific Command said that the missile fired on Wednesday was a Pukguksong-2 but that it had been deployed from "a land-based facility" near Sinpo, a port on the east coast of North Korea, rather than a mobile launch vehicle inland.
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In an analysis on the 38 North monitoring website, John Schilling, an aerospace engineer who is a specialist in satellite and launch vehicle propulsion systems, said it appeared from the video that the launch was conducted from a submerged barge rather than a submarine.
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"When the space craft separated from the launch vehicle, we did not get the desired orbital insertion burn that we were hoping for," he continued, noting again that the spacecraft believed it was at a different stage in the mission than it actually was.
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That launch will be the uncrewed version of the first-ever commercial crew launch for Boeing's Starliner crew capsule, and if all goes well, that will mean we're closer than ever for U.S. astronauts launching once again from U.S. soil aboard an American launch vehicle.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Launch Services, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co, has been awarded an $832 million modification to a previously awarded U.S. defense contract for its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, the Pentagon said in a statement on Wednesday.
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"The important element we're trying to highlight within ... the broader Air Force process is that there is a regular discounting of the commercial market that is a key factor in [United States] launch vehicle policy," Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith told CNBC after the briefing.
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In contrast with a sober NASA launch vehicle, it sported a jaunty purple, orange, and white paint job and signage from sponsors, including a chain of Mexican chicken restaurants, an online dating app ("Dating isn't rocket science"), and companies offering crane, welding, and window-tinting services.
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There's yet another new rocket launch startup throwing its hat in the ring — Astra, an Alameda-based company that's actually been operating in stealth mode (though relatively openly, often referred to as "Stealth Space Company") for the past three years developing and testing its launch vehicle.
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He followed that up on Sunday with tweets showing new artist renderings of the Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, the super heavy-lift launch vehicle that Musk promises will shuttle the passenger to the moon and eventually fly humans and cargo to Mars, using the hashtag #OccupyMars.
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"We'll obviously be poring over all of this spacecraft and launch vehicle data, going through every system, making sure that the spacecraft is solid in all of its subsystem areas," John Mulholland, vice president and program manager of Boeing's Commercial Crew Program, said during a press conference.
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After that, MHI has been hard at work on the H3, a fully expendable launch vehicle currently under development that's specifically aimed at serving more commercial customers with total launch costs that are more or less on par with emerging competitors like SpaceX for medium-heavy payloads.
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Richard Tousey, our neighbor across the street and down the block, was quite a Renaissance man: He was the solar astronomer primarily responsible for capturing the first photographs of the solar UV spectrum down to about 210 nanometers in 1946 using a captured V-2 rocket as launch vehicle.
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"If you can get that heavy-lifting done in a good way — a real operable, reusable launch vehicle — you'll set the next generation up to be space entrepreneurs," he said, adding that he wants to "sort of be the UPS or the FedEx or whatever" for space travel.
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The Starliner will undergo a crucial and necessary launch pad abort test, wherein if all goes will it'll show exactly how it can use its on board engines to quickly move the spacecraft away from the launch vehicle prior to lift-off in the unlikely chance of an emergency.
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SpaceX did something a little different with this Starlink mission, deploying them from the launch vehicle much earlier in the mission, after just one burn of the rocket's second stage, into an elliptical orbit from which they'll use their own thrusters to climb to their target orbit around Earth.
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Rosie the Robot can produce a launch vehicle about once every 12 hours — handling the key task of processing the company's Electron carbon composite stages in a way that cuts what used to take hundreds of manual work hours into something that can be done twice a day.
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This morning's launch provided a test for a key element of that system — the re-entry control and navigation equipment and software that helps the first-stage effect the crucial first part of recovery, by returning to Earth's atmosphere after separating from the rest of the launch vehicle.
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"Although the reliability of an untested North Korean ICBM is likely to be very low, North Korea has used its Taepodong-2 launch vehicle to put a satellite into orbit, thus demonstrating technologies applicable to a long-range missile," he said, referring to a North Korean rocket launch last month.
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Canadian satellite startup Kepler Communications has contracted its first launch, with launch operations be provided by Netherlands-based Innovative Space Logistics (ISL), and the launch itself taking place aboard an Indian polar satellite launch vehicle (PSVL) current scheduled to take off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in November of this year.
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The rocket, known as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV, successfully took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in southeastern India at 9:30AM ET. About a little over 10 minutes into the flight, however, the rocket seemed to be in a lower altitude than it need to be.
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"The original design of the Vector-R launch vehicle has largely remained the same since the founding of Vector and the acquisition of Garvey Spacecraft Corporation in 2016 (where the initial design was developed over a 15-year process)," explained co-founder and chief sales and marketing officer Shaun Coleman.
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The probes, dubbed SpaceBees 1, 2, 3, and 4, are meant to test out Swarm's idea for a "space-based Internet of Things" network, according to IEEE, and went up as part of a cluster of 31 satellites aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket on January 12th.
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The State Department charged on Thursday that Iran's test of the satellite launch vehicle was a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions as well as the spirit of the multinational Iran nuclear deal, under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear programs in exchange for a lifting of some economic sanctions.
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Proceeding brings you to a series of screens where you select whether you'll need either a 15-inch or 24-inch port on the launch vehicle (which is largely a function of volume and mass), as well as the specific rocket you're looking to book a ride on (from upcoming scheduled missions).
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New Shepard is a suborbital launch vehicle, and will seek to deliver cargo including a number of scientific experiments as well as thousands of postcards from children who have submitted them through Blue Origin's nonprofit Club for the Future organization, which aims to get kids in involved in space science and exploration.
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Blue Origin started working on BE-4 in 2011, and though it was originally designed for use specifically on Blue Origin's own New Glenn rocket, which is its first orbital launch vehicle, in 2014 ULA announced it would be using the engines to power its own next-generation Vulcan craft as well.
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"Our objective is to determine whether the U.S. Air Force complied with the Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide when certifying the launch system design for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle-class SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles," U.S. Department Of Defense Deputy Inspector General Michael Roark said in the memo.
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Starship is the next launch vehicle SpaceX is developing, which is intended to be fully reusable (its current rockets are only partially able to be refurbished and reflow) and which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk envisions eventually being able to take over all mission activity for the company, including transfer of crew and cargo to Mars.
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Firefly was rescued at least in part thanks to a lifeline investment from Noosphere Ventures, and said at the time it had enough runway to fund it fully through development and flight of Alpha, an expendable launch vehicle that will be able to deliver as much as a metric ton to low-Earth orbit.
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ULA CEO Tory Bruno explained that this was a fully successful launch from the perspective of the Atlas V launch vehicle, which flew in a different configuration than usual for the first time, so they consider it a win for their perfect launch record, having "literally hit a bullseye" for their target mission parameters.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne's facility at Stennis Space Center is already home for assembly and testing of the RS-68 engine that powers the Delta IV family of launch vehicles, and the RS-2893 engine that will power NASA's Space Launch System – America's newest heavy lift launch vehicle in development, set to be the most powerful rocket in the world.
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The company offered the following statement, as well as confirming that Cantrell is out: Vector speeds toward orbital launch capability with $70M in new funding Vector has been working on an orbital launch vehicle, the Vector-R, with a 60 kilogram maximum payload — a small rocket for small satellites, for which there is plenty of demand.
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"Due in large part to the hard work and dedication of many highly motivated people in the NASA Launch Services program, we are able to close out the cause of two extremely disappointing launch vehicle failures and protect the government aerospace supply chain," Amanda Mitskevich, LSP program manager at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, said in a statement.
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The company says that its equipment can wind its main stage fuel tanks in just a matter of hours using this equipment, which is a big part of ability to achieve launch vehicle construction efficiency, which leads to affordable costs for small satellite launch clients keen to make use of the Prime to deliver their payloads.
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Last August, SpaceX announced that it would be offering dedicated "rideshare" missions for customers using its Falcon 9 launch vehicle, but at FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Conference this year, Rocket Lab VP of Global Commercial Launch Services Shane Fleming wanted to remind people that his company still believes their offering is likely the better option for most smallsat operators.
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TriSept, which provides launch management and brokerage services in addition to integration for payloads loaded into the launch vehicle, has been operating in the U.S. space market for years now, and it'll also be setting up a full-time presence in the U.K. ahead of the Sutherland spaceport's opening later this year, at Harwell Space Campus in Oxford.
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Starting at 153 AM ET (215 AM PT), a launch window opens during which SpaceX will hopefully perform what's called an "in-flight abort" test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 27 launch vehicle, to demonstrate how its safety systems would protect astronauts on board in the unlikely event of an unexpected incident during a real crew flight.
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The H-IIB rocket is a fully expendable launch vehicle, with a liquid-oxygen-fueled central core and four solid fuel boosters that surround the base to provide more lift, giving the rocket a total lift capacity of up to 18,83 lbs to geostationary transfer orbit, or as much as 36,400 lbs to low Earth orbit.
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Boeing's Starliner CST-100 crew spacecraft got off to a great start on its first-ever launch to the International Space Station this morning — but despite the rocket and launch vehicle performing as expected, the Starliner spacecraft itself hit a bit of a snag when it came time for its own post-launch mission to begin.
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The company has been doing a lot of work to increase its ability to launch multiple missions in quick succession — this year, it unveiled a new room-sized carbon composite manufacturing robot that can turn parts of its Electron launch vehicle construction process, which used to take weeks, into something that is done in just hours.
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The new Huntsville facility will be able to produce its rocket engines at a much higher rate than is currently possible, which will be useful as the company is using its in-development BE-4 engine for its own New Glenn rocket, as well as for supplying the United Launch Alliance with thrust for its new Vulcan launch vehicle.
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