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    V rockets with a family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles named "Jupiter". It was intended to be the alternative to the Ares I and Ares V rockets which...
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    Redstone rocket family, Jupiter-C was designed by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), under the direction of Wernher von Braun. Three Jupiter-C flights...
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  • Jupiter-C, for sounding Jupiter-A Jupiter (rocket family), a proposed family of space shuttle-derived launch vehicles Jupiter (spacecraft), a proposed...
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    The Saturn family of American rockets was developed by a team of former German rocket engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy...
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    The Redstone family of rockets consisted of a number of American ballistic missiles, sounding rockets and expendable launch vehicles operational during...
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    Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all...
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    Scout family of rockets were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the...
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    Titan was a family of United States expendable rockets used between 1959 and 2005. The Titan I and Titan II were part of the US Air Force's intercontinental...
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  • of the Redstone rocket family, it was derived from the U.S. Army's Redstone ballistic missile and the first stage of the related Jupiter-C launch vehicle;...
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    PGM-17 Thor (redirect from Thor Rocket)
    fired from US soil. By 1959, with the Atlas rocket well on its way to operational status, both Thor and Jupiter programs became obsolete as delivery vehicles...
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    subcontractors to Chrysler. In 1955, the Jupiter-C rocket (not to be confused with the later, unrelated Jupiter IRBM) was developed as an enhanced Redstone...
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  • liquid rocket engine produced by Rocketdyne between 1956 and 1961 for use on the PGM-19 Jupiter and PGM-17 Thor missiles, and the Juno II rocket. Its design...
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    Could Rocket-Boost Research in Space". Scientific American. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021. "Jupiter Orbit...
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    non-hypergolic liquid propellants. It is the fifth iteration of the Long March rocket family. There are currently two CZ-5 variants: CZ-5 and CZ-5B. The maximum...
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    Shuttle Shuttle-derived vehicle Space Launch System Ares I Ares V Jupiter (rocket family) Artemis program Constellation program Chrysler SERV "Shuttle Variations...
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    Milton Rosen (category Rocket scientists)
    Explorer 1, was launched January 31, 1958, by a substantially larger Army Jupiter-C rocket, based on the Redstone missile, which had been developed by the Army...
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  • Mary Sherman Morgan (category Rocket scientists)
    2004) was a U.S. rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the...
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    switch from the J-2X upper engine to an air-startable SSME. Jupiter (rocket family) Magnum (rocket), a 1990s Shuttle-derived heavy lift vehicle concept. Review...
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    vehicle is a member of the Redstone launch vehicle family, and was derived from the Jupiter-C sounding rocket. It is commonly confused with the Juno II launch...
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    German V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket, through a progression of U.S. military rockets, such as the Redstone and Jupiter IRBM vehicles, and civilian derivatives...
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    Lost in Space (redirect from Jupiter 2)
    The Jupiter 2, a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launchpad undergoing final preparations. Its mission is to take a single family on...
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    Kurt H. Debus (category German rocket scientists)
    the development and construction of rocket launch facilities at Cape Canaveral for the Redstone, Jupiter, Jupiter-C, Juno and Pershing military configurations...
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    Kellie Gerardi (category People from Jupiter, Florida)
    Truman National Security Project. She is the author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide To Life in the Space Age and the children's...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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  • Saturn I (redirect from Saturn I rocket)
    design envisaged eight rocket tanks similar to the Redstone stage strapped around a central larger tank derived from a Jupiter rocket. The design and diameter...
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    solely for flight research. The first X-Plane, the Bell X-1, was the first rocket-powered airplane to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947. X-Planes...
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    Heavy rocket launched the Jupiter-3 (EchoStar-24) communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit. With a mass of over 9 tonnes, EchoStar's Jupiter-3 is...
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  • categories of MANPATS are in use, which are split into the following lists. Rocket launchers launch unguided self-propelled projectiles. Recoilless weapons...
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  • The Star is a family of US solid-propellant rocket motors originally developed by Thiokol and used by many space propulsion and launch vehicle stages....
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    Saturn V (redirect from Saturn V rocket)
    with the Jupiter series of rockets. The Juno I rocket launched the first American satellite in January 1958. Von Braun considered the Jupiter series of...
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