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    feature video: [1] (in Chinese) NCSIST testing video: [2] "Kestrel latest generation of rocket launcher weapon presented by Chung-Shan Institute TADTE 1908136"...
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  • following is a list of rocket launchers Note, rocket launchers are different from recoilless rifles, recoilless guns, grenade launchers or anti-tank guided...
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    The Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) is a smoothbore shoulder-fired rocket launcher. It is a portable assault weapon (i.e.,...
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    AT4 (redirect from AT-4 rocket launcher)
    [unreliable source?] The AT4 is not a rocket launcher strictly speaking, because the explosive warhead is not propelled by a rocket motor. Rather, it is a smooth-bore...
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  • Kestrel (rocket engine) Kestrel, the Glasflügel 401 fibreglass glider The Slingsby Kestrel, UK version of this glider Hawker Siddeley P.1127 "Kestrel", a prototype...
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    developed four families of rocket engines — Merlin, Kestrel, Draco and SuperDraco — and is currently (since 2016) developing another rocket engine: Raptor, and...
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    (B5) patrol car T93 sniper rifle T91-3 assault rifle T75K1 pistol Kestrel rocket launcher People's Armed Police Military Police Corps (United States) "Military...
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    two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. As of April 2024, it is the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown. Starship's...
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    privately developed liquid fueled launch vehicle to be launched into orbit, and utilized SpaceX's Merlin and Kestrel engines for its first and second stages...
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    The SpaceX Kestrel was an LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine. The Kestrel engine was developed in the 2000s by SpaceX for upper stage use on the Falcon...
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    The Hawker P.1127 and the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel FGA.1 are the British experimental and development aircraft that led to the Hawker Siddeley Harrier...
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    SpaceX (category Commercial launch service providers)
    launch vehicle hardware by the early 2020s. Since the founding of SpaceX in 2002, the company has developed several rocket engines – Merlin, Kestrel,...
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    the second powered by a single Kestrel engine. The vehicle was launched a total of five times. After three failed launch attempts, Falcon 1 achieved orbit...
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    produce orbital rockets. France became a space power independently, launching a payload into orbit from Algeria, before joining space launcher facilities in...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
    Since June 2010, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 342 times, with 340 full mission successes, two failures, and one partial success...
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    former would require a huge Nova-class launcher and pads, while the latter would require several rockets to be launched in quick succession. Furthermore, the...
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    average of 90 rockets per year after 2019. SpaceX have indicated that, depending on market demand, they may actually need another commercial launch site in...
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    RPG-22 (category Cold War anti-tank rockets of the Soviet Union)
    Netto is a one-shot disposable anti-tank rocket launcher first deployed in 1985, based on the RPG-18 rocket launcher, but firing a larger 72.5 mm fin stabilised...
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    Falcon 9 was launched 77 times, with 75 full mission successes, one partial failure and one total loss of the spacecraft. In addition, one rocket and its payload...
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    2010". Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2010-10-09. "Kestrel Rocket". www.ncsist.org.tw. NCSIST. Retrieved 1 July 2019. Chen, Kelvin (6...
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    privately funded. SpaceX developed its first launch vehicle—Falcon 1—and three rocket engines—Merlin, Kestrel, and Draco—completely with private capital...
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    first time on April 20, 2023, during the first orbital launch attempt of the Starship rocket. The manufacturing process starts with rolls of steel, which...
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  • of nearly doubling the rocket's fuel capacity, along with the adoption of a more powerful solid fuel second stage, named Kestrel. This envisioned more...
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    March 2014[update] launch service providers who compete with SpaceX were not planning to develop similar technology or offer competing reusable launcher options...
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    most prolific year, and Falcon rockets were second most prolific rocket family of 2020, only behind China's Long March rocket family. In October 2020, Elon...
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  • "Rocket Lab Signs Deal with Leidos to Launch Four HASTE Missions". Rocket Lab (Press release). 12 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023. "Rocket...
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    First named Launch Complex 39C, Launch Complex 39A was designed to handle launches of the Saturn V rocket, the largest and most powerful launch vehicle,...
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    (NASC) helicopter outside of Port of Kaohsiung CGA STU 3 Kestrel system Kestrel (rocket launcher), for Pratas and Spratley Islands garrisons. 292 deployed...
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    SX300 Inconel superalloy, later changed to SX500. SpaceX's Merlin and Kestrel rocket engines use a RP-1 and liquid oxygen ("kerolox") combination. Raptor...
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    The pressure-fed engine is a class of rocket engine designs. A separate gas supply, usually helium, pressurizes the propellant tanks to force fuel and...
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