vehicle launch

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• vehicle — /vee i keuhl/ or, sometimes, /vee hi /, n. 1. any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed; a means of conveyance or transport: a motor vehicle; space vehicles. 2. a conveyance moving on wheels, runners, tracks, or …   Universalium

• Launch window — is a term used in aerospace to describe a time period in which a particular rocket must be launched. If the rocket does not launch within the window , it has to wait for the next one before it can be launched.For trips into largely arbitrary… …   Wikipedia

• Launch commit criteria — are the measurements obtained during the countdown and launch of a space vehicle which relate to any safety issue and the general success of the launch, as opposed to supplemental data. [ [http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/launch team …   Wikipedia

• launch vehicle — n. any system, usually a rocket, designed to launch a spacecraft or other payload …   English World dictionary

• launch pad — UK / US or launching pad UK / US noun [countable] Word forms launch pad : singular launch pad plural launch pads the surface from which a missile, space vehicle etc is sent into the air or into space …   English dictionary

• launch vehicle — launch′ ve hicle n. rkt ars a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a probe into space • Etymology: 1955–1960 …   From formal English to slang

• launch pad — launch ,pad or launching ,pad noun count the surface from which a space vehicle, missile, etc. is sent into the air or into space …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space. [1955 1960] * * * Rocket system that boosts a spacecraft into Earth orbit or beyond Earth s gravitational pull. A wide variety of launch vehicles …   Universalium

• Launch vehicle — Satellite launch vehicle redirects here. For the Indian rocket, see Satellite Launch Vehicle A Russian Soyuz lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan heading for the ISS In spaceflight, a launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket… …   Wikipedia

• Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 — Launch Complex 39 redirects here. For the Proton launch complex at Baikonur, see Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 200. Launch Complex 39 An aerial view of Launch Complex 39 Launch site Kennedy Space Center Locat …   Wikipedia

• Launch pad — A launch pad is the area and facilities where rockets or spacecrafts liftoff. A typical launch pad consists of the service and umbilical structures. The service structure provides an access platform to inspect the launch vehicle prior to launch.… …   Wikipedia