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| x Taurus rocket |
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Taurus is a four stage, solid fuel launch vehicle built by Orbital Sciences Corporation. It is based on the air-launched Pegasus rocket from the same manufacturer. The Taurus rocket is able to carry a payload of around 1,350 kg into a low Earth...
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| x Proton rocket |
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Proton (Прото́н) (formal designation: UR-500) is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches. The first Proton rocket was launched in 1965 and the launch system is still in use as of 2009, which makes...
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| x Aerobee rocket |
The Aerobee rocket was a small (8 m) unguided suborbital sounding rocket used for high atmospheric and cosmic radiation research in the United States in the 1950s.
It was built by Aerojet General. The company began work in 1946 and test fired the...
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| x R4M rocket |
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The R4M rocket, nicknamed the Hurricane (German: Orkan) due to its distinctive smoke trail when fired, was the first practical anti-aircraft rocket. It was developed by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and used briefly before the end of the...
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| x Vostok rocket |
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Vostok (Russian Восток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for other satellite launches. It was a subset of the R-7 family of rockets....
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| x Delta rocket |
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Delta is a family of expendable launch systems that have provided space launch capability in the United States since 1960. There have been over 300 Delta rockets launched, with a 95% success rate. Two Delta launch systems – Delta II and Delta IV –...
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| x Zenit rocket |
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Zenit (Ukrainian: Зеніт, Russian: Зени́т; meaning Zenith) is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau of Ukraine. Zenit was built in the 1980s for two purposes: as a liquid rocket booster for the Energia rocket and,...
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| x N1 rocket |
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N1 or N-1 or 11A52 (Н1, Н-1, 11А52 in Russian) was a secret Soviet rocket intended to send Soviet cosmonauts to the Moon. It is also known in the West as the G-1e or SL-15. The Soviet classified technical name N1 was an abbreviation from the Russian...
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| x Pegasus rocket |
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Pegasus rockets are the winged space booster vehicles used in an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital). Three main stages burning solid propellant provide most of the thrust.
The Pegasus is carried aloft below...
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| x S-5 rocket |
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The S-5 (first designated ARS-57) is a rocket weapon developed by the Soviet Air Force and used by military aircraft against ground area targets. It is in service with the Russian Air Force and various export customers.
It is produced in a variety...
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| x S-8 rocket |
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The S-8 is a rocket weapon developed by the Soviet Air Force for use by military aircraft. It remains in service with the Russian Air Force and various export customers.
Developed in the 1970s, the S-8 is an 80 mm (3.1 in) rocket used by fighter...
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| x Voskhod rocket |
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The Voskhod rocket (Russian: Восход, "ascent", "dawn") was a derivative of the Soviet R-7 ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme but later used for launching Zenit reconnaissance satellites. It combined the R-7 with an upper stage that...
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| x S-24 rocket |
The S-24 is a rocket weapon designed and used by the Soviet Air Force. It remains in use by the Russian Air Force. The name is based on the diameter of the rocket, 240 mm (9.45 in).
The Soviet Union was an early, enthusiastic user of rocket weapons,...
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| x Atlas V |
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Atlas V is an active expendable launch system in the Atlas rocket family. Atlas V was formerly operated by Lockheed Martin, and is now operated by the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance. Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian...
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| x Ariane 5 |
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Ariane 5 is a European expendable launch system designed to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit or low Earth orbit. It is manufactured under the authority of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ...
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Ariane is a series of a European civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use. The name comes from the French spelling of the mythological character Ariadne; the word is also used in French to describe some types of hummingbird.
France...
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| x Saturn INT-21 |
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The Saturn INT-21 was an American orbital launch vehicle of the 1970s. It was derived from the Saturn V rocket used for the Apollo program, and is casually referred to as a "modified Saturn V." It was only launched once, from Kennedy Space Center at...
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| x Space Shuttle program |
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NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's current manned launch vehicle. The winged Space Shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although...
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Delta II is a space launch system originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. Delta II is part of the Delta rocket family and has been in service since 1989. Delta II vehicles include the retired Delta 6000, the active Delta 7000, and two...
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| x Soyuz launch vehicle |
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Soyuz (Russian: Союз, meaning "union", GRAU index 11A511) is a family of expendable launch systems developed by OKB-1, and manufactured by TsSKB-Progress in Samara, Russia. They are used as the launcher for the manned Soyuz spacecraft as part of the...
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| x Dnepr launch vehicle |
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The Dnepr rocket (Ukrainian: Дніпро, Dnipro; Russian: Днепр, Dnepr) is a space launch vehicle named after the Dnieper River. It is a converted ICBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit, operated by launch service provider ISC...
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STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the American Space Shuttle program, which launched the Hubble Space Telescope astronomical observatory into Earth orbit. The mission used the Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from launchpad 39B on...
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| x Space Shuttle Discovery |
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Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States. (The other two are Atlantis and Endeavour.) When first flown...
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