expendable launch vehicle

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• expendable launch vehicle — noun (space flight) A launch system that is made up of expendable stages and has no recoverable parts (abbrev ELV) • • • Main Entry: ↑expend …   Useful english dictionary

• Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle — Pour les articles homonymes, voir EELV (homonymie). Lancement d une Delta IV un des deux lanceurs EELV dans sa version Heavy (2007) …   Wikipédia en Français

• Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle — The Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program is a United States government, primarily a Department of Defense–sponsored effort begun in the 1990s. Its goal is to develop at least one family of space launch vehicles, that would meet the… …   Wikipedia

• 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

• Expendable launch system — An expendable launch system is a launch system that uses an expendable launch vehicle (ELV) to carry a payload into space. The vehicles used in expendable launch systems are designed to be used only once (i.e. they are expended during a single… …   Wikipedia

• 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

• Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle — Infobox rocket name = GSLV imsize = 250 caption = Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle function = Expendable launch vehicle manufacturer = ISRO country origin = IND height = 49 m alt height = 160 ft diameter = 2.8 m alt diameter = 9.1 ft mass …   Wikipedia

• Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle — Infobox Rocket name = Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle caption = PSLV C8 (CA Variant) carrying the AGILE x ray and γ ray astronomical satellite of the ASI lifting off from Sriharikota function = Expendable launch vehicle manufacturer = ISRO country …   Wikipedia

• Soyuz launch vehicle — The Soyuz launch vehicle (Western designation: A 2) is an expendable launch system manufactured by TsSKB Progress in Samara, Russia. It is used as the launcher for the manned Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz program. It is now also used to… …   Wikipedia

• Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle — The Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle, or simply Shuttle Derived Vehicle (SDV), is a term describing one of a wide array of concepts that have been developed for creating space launch vehicles from the components, technology and/or infrastructure of …   Wikipedia

• Launch campaign — In the context of spaceflight, a launch campaign is the set of activities which prepare a launch vehicle for lift off.Activities during the launch campaign include launch vehicle assembly, integration of the payload, fueling of the vehicle, and… …   Wikipedia