launch vehicle
nounDefinition of launch vehicle
: a rocket used to launch a satellite or spacecraft
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Those commercial launch vehicles include United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket, and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy booster. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "NASA’s inspector general has apparently had enough of meddling by Congress," 28 Aug. 2019 The Falcon Heavy super heavy-lift launch vehicle has 27 of SpaceX's Merlin engines, each pumping out about 190,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "Falcon Heavy Launches to Become the Most Powerful Rocket in the World," 6 Feb. 2018 Within the latest procurement, the Air Force specifies that companies can put forward a backup launch vehicle, along with a primary rocket, to put satellites into orbit. — Loren Grush, The Verge, "How Blue Origin is trying to rework the rules of the Air Force’s coveted rocket competition," 13 Aug. 2019 July 18, 1980 — Satellite Launch Vehicle-3, India’s first experimental satellite launch vehicle, is launched, making India the sixth space-faring nation. — Washington Post, "Ahead of 2nd moon shot, a timeline of India’s space program," 12 July 2019 In 2005 the organization attempted to launch its first solar sail, Cosmos 1, but its Russian launch vehicle failed to reach orbit. — Robert Z. Pearlman, Scientific American, "Solar Sailing Success: Planetary Society Deploys LightSail 2," 23 July 2019 Apollo 11, the first manned lunar mission, launched from The Kennedy Space Center, Florida via a Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969. — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, "Listen: We made it! Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon," 18 July 2019 Recovering and reusing parts of its rockets is at the core of SpaceX's plans to make its launch vehicles cheaper. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, "SpaceX shares vibrant footage from its first-ever nose cone recovery," 5 July 2019 The officials said both missiles were fired from mobile launch vehicles, but more analysis was needed to determine whether the missiles were based on ballistic technology. — Choe Sang-hun, New York Times, "North Korea Launches Two Short-Range Missiles, South Korea Says," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'launch vehicle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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