Launch vehicle system tests assess the readiness of a launch system to safely reach orbit. Launch vehicles undergo system tests before they launch. Wet...
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have 25 launches in 2025. List of Starship upper stage flight tests List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches List of Space Launch System launches List...
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encompasses vehicles like the Space Shuttle. Most launch vehicles operate from a launch pad, supported by a launch control center and systems such as vehicle assembly...
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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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final Flight Tests of Guided Pinaka Weapon Systems as part of Provisional Staff Qualitative Requirements (PSQR) Validation Trials. The tests were conducted...
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multi-stage payload launch vehicle launched at high altitude into space from under the carrier aircraft, plus a mating and integration system by Dynetics. However...
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vehicles are designed to replace currently operational systems like PSLV and GSLV. The project was previously referred to as Unified Launch Vehicle (ULV)...
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commander's use. The LES may be used while the launch vehicle is on the launch pad, or during its ascent. Such systems are usually of three types: A solid-fueled...
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The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American armored self-propelled multiple launch rocket system. The U.S. Army variant of the M270...
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an aircraft or launch vehicles and reusable spacecraft at the atmospheric phase of flight. Instrumentation systems for flight testing are developed using...
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Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) is a class of expendable launch systems operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). GSLV...
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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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The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon...
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Starship flight test 9 will be the ninth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Ship 35 and Booster 14-2 will fly on this test flight. This flight...
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Lockheed Martin X-33 (redirect from Reusable Launch Vehicle program (NASA))
reusable launch vehicle. The X-33 would flight-test a range of technologies that NASA believed it needed for single-stage-to-orbit reusable launch vehicles (SSTO...
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Vehicle (BFV) is an American tracked armored fighting vehicle of the United States developed by FMC Corporation and now manufactured by BAE Systems Land...
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is a list of conventional orbital launch systems. This is composed of launch vehicles, and other conventional systems, used to place satellites into orbit...
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New Shepard (category Blue Origin launch vehicles)
Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, who became...
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RLV Technology Demonstration Programme (redirect from India’s Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator)
Reusable Launch Vehicle–Technology Demonstration Programme is a series of technology demonstration missions that has been conceived by the Indian Space...
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The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital...
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Ares I (redirect from Crew Launch Vehicle)
Space Launch System as its new vehicle for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit. In 1995 Lockheed Martin produced an Advanced Transportation System Studies...
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checkout system, HILS (hardware in loop simulation) and launch readiness," sources said. In 2016, it was announced that the vehicle will be tested by December...
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systems are rockets and other systems capable of placing payloads into or beyond Earth orbit. All launch vehicle propulsion systems employed to date have been...
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outer space with a launch altitude of 100 miles (160 km). The flight plan called for the craft to separate from the launch vehicle, level out and glide...
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Starship flight test 8 was the eighth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. The launch tower successfully caught Booster 15; Ship 34 was destroyed...
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Boeing X-37 (redirect from Boeing X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle)
also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), is a reusable robotic spacecraft. It is boosted into space by a launch vehicle, re-enters Earth's atmosphere...
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satellite launch vehicles. The Vehicle Assembly & Launching Facility (VALF), Solid Motor Preparation & Environmental Testing Facility (SMP&ETF) tests and qualifies...
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The Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) is a small-lift launch vehicle developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to deliver 500 kg (1...
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The Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) is a two-stage, partially reusable medium-lift launch vehicle being jointly developed by Firefly Aerospace and Northrop...
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Weapon Systems (HWS): a short term high performance hypersonic gliding weapon previously named the X-41 Common Aero Vehicle (CAV) that could be launched from...
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