up launch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Launch or launched may refer to: Launch (boat), one of several different sorts of boat Motor launch (naval)...
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A launch vehicle is typically a rocket-powered vehicle designed to carry a payload (a crewed spacecraft or satellites) from Earth's surface or lower atmosphere...
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Look up launcher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Launcher may refer to: Application launcher, a kind of utility software Rocket launcher, a device...
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Launch is a name given to several different types of boat. The wide-range of usage of the name extends from utilitarian craft through to pleasure boats...
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Ceremonial ship launching involves the performing of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water. It is a nautical tradition...
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The Launch is a Canadian reality music competition series broadcast by CTV, which premiered on January 10, 2018. Each episode of the series follows five...
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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (redirect from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 1)
Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida. Headquartered...
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launch, also known as a soft opening, is a preview release of a product or service to a limited audience prior to the general public. Soft-launching a...
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A launch loop, or Lofstrom loop, is a proposed system for launching objects into orbit using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached...
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The Satellite Launch Vehicle or SLV was a small-lift launch vehicle project started in the early 1970s by the Indian Space Research Organisation to develop...
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Air launching is the practice of releasing a rocket, missile, parasite aircraft or other aircraft payload from a mother ship or launch aircraft. The payload...
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spaceflight, launch period is the collection of days and launch window is the time period on a given day during which a particular rocket must be launched in order...
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The Xbox 360 launch marked the release of the first high-profile seventh generation video game console. It was Microsoft's second foray in console development...
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A vertical launching system (VLS) is an advanced system for holding and firing missiles on mobile naval platforms, such as surface ships and submarines...
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transporter erector launcher (TEL) is a missile vehicle with an integrated tractor unit that can transport, elevate to a firing position and launch one or more...
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central launch platform (mobile launcher platform), or the entire complex (launch complex). The entire complex will include a launch mount or launch platform...
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Satish Dhawan Space Centre (redirect from Sriharikota Launching Range)
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The Centre currently has two functioning launch pads used for launching sounding rockets, polar satellites and geosynchronous satellites...
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Space launch is the earliest part of a flight that reaches space. Space launch involves liftoff, when a rocket or other space launch vehicle leaves the...
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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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A naphtha launch, sometimes called a "vapor launch", was a small motor launch, powered by a naphtha engine. They were a particularly American design,...
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A mobile launcher platform (MLP), also known as mobile launch platform, is a structure used to support a large multistage space vehicle which is assembled...
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Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) is the first of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. The...
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Spaceport (redirect from Space launch facility)
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving spacecraft, by analogy to a seaport for ships or an airport for aircraft. The word spaceport...
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Even before the launch of Sputnik 1, there were various types of launch vehicle designs. The launch vehicle designs described below are either canceled...
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multiple rocket launcher (MRL) or multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple launchers which are fixed...
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Kennedy Space Center (redirect from Launch Operations Center)
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National...
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Launch on warning (LOW), or fire on warning, is a strategy of nuclear weapon retaliation where a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of enemy...
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Sea Launch was a multinational—Norway, Russia, Ukraine, United States—spacecraft launch company founded in 1995 that provided orbital launch services from...
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Launch It is the new name for The London Youth Support Trust, which was rebranded in 2019. Building on their 19 years' experience of supporting young people...
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The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center (commonly known as just the Launch Control Center or LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...
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