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    A floating launch vehicle operations platform is a marine vessel used for launch or landing operations of an orbital launch vehicle by a launch service...
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    spacecraft launch platform converted from a mobile drilling rig in 1997. The vessel was used by Sea Launch for equatorial Pacific Ocean launches. She works...
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    with a Louisiana shipyard to build a floating landing platform for reusable orbital launch vehicles. The platform had an approximately 90 by 50 meters...
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  • platform ship. It entered service in January 2025 for the New Glenn launch vehicle. The LPV1 barge replaced the ship, also named Jacklyn, that Blue Origin...
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    mobile maritime launch platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit-3SL rockets from a former mobile/floating oil drilling...
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  • Landing Platform Vessel 1, had also been given the name Jacklyn. Spaceflight portal Autonomous spaceport drone ship – Floating landing platform operated...
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    combined drilling and production facilities, either bottom-founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), including semi-submersibles...
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    Autonomous spaceport drone ship (category Floating launch vehicle operations platform)
    position and a large landing platform. They were developed to recover the first stage (also called the booster) of its launch vehicles. By recovering and reusing...
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  • intended for the first stage of the vehicle to be reusable, with landings planned on a floating landing platform downrange in the Atlantic Ocean called...
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    January 2011. Scott, Richard (30 September 2010). "Floating world: US Navy eyes Mobile Landing Platform as sea base pontoon". International Defence Review...
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    rapid reuse of space launch vehicles. The project's long-term objectives include returning a launch vehicle first stage to the launch site within minutes...
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    between the floating pontoons and the transitory ramp on either bank. The structure was formed dynamically, distributing wave energy and vehicle pressure...
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    Ford Explorer EV (category Ford vehicles)
    vehicle is based on the Volkswagen Group MEB platform, and uses Volkswagen supplied powertrain. The vehicle shares its name and design inspiration with...
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    their launch operations, and reduce launch costs, by dividing their launch missions amongst these four launch facilities: LC-39A for NASA launches, SLC-40...
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    A reusable launch vehicle has parts that can be recovered and reflown, while carrying payloads from the surface to outer space. Rocket stages are the most...
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    weapons. Zenit-3SL was launched by the Sea Launch consortium's floating launch platform in the Pacific Ocean and Zenit-2 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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    A high-altitude platform station (HAPS, which can also mean high-altitude pseudo-satellite or high-altitude platform systems), also known as atmospheric...
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    engineering vehicle is a vehicle built for construction work or for the transportation of combat engineers on the battlefield. These vehicles may be modified...
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    payload capability of the vehicle and the needs of the user. ROV operations in conjunction with simultaneous diving operations are under the overall supervision...
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  • performed test launches on their floating offshore launch platform in the Gulf of Mexico. This test also marked the first commercial launch from US territorial...
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    An arsenal ship is a concept for a floating missile platform intended to have as many as five hundred vertical launch bays for large-sized missiles, most...
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    USNS John Glenn (category Montford Point-class mobile landing platforms)
    3 May 2014. Scott, Richard (30 September 2010). "Floating world: US Navy eyes Mobile Landing Platform as sea base pontoon". International Defence Review...
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    Mobile Landing Platform Program". Converteam.com. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2012. Scott, Richard (30 September 2010). "Floating world: US Navy...
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  • Submersible diver propulsion vehicle with inflatable buoyancy for surface use Diving support vessel – Ship used as a floating base for professional diving...
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    It can be controlled remotely from mobile vehicles, headquarters, command centers and floating platforms. It will serve in missions such as reconnaissance...
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    Russian annexation of Crimea, launches were conducted on Sea Launch's floating platform, which was soon mothballed. SSAU has ground control and tracking...
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  • reentry vehicles (MIRVs), each of which carries a nuclear warhead and allows a single launched missile to strike several targets. Submarine-launched ballistic...
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    protecting a moving convoy of vehicles. The launch platform has been integrated with both wheeled and tracked vehicles. While the Akash system has primarily...
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    An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian) is a vehicle that works both on land and on or under water. Amphibious vehicles include amphibious bicycles...
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    successful launches by the same launch vehicle type in a calendar year. This surpassed the previous record held by Soyuz-U, which had 47 launches (45 successful)...
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