X-Nico

unusual facts about launch vehicle


Blue Origin

The bid is for shared non-exclusive use of the complex such that the launchpad can interface with multiple vehicles, and costs can be shared over the long term.


CASSIOPE

CASSIOPE is a satellite project of the Canadian Space Agency, launched on September 29, 2013 on the first flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle.

Cosmopolis XXI

Cosmopolis XXI was a late 2000s Russian concept launch vehicle billed as a space tourism vehicle, similar to Mojave Aerospace's Tier One program.

Phillips Report

The so-called "Phillips report" was a document summarizing a review conducted in November-December 1965 by a NASA team headed by Lt Gen Samuel C. Phillips, director of the Apollo manned Moon landing program, to investigate schedule slippage and cost overruns incurred by North American Aviation, manufacturer of the Command/Service Module spacecraft and the second stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle.

Project Highwater

Project Highwater was an experiment carried out as part of two of the test flights of NASA's Saturn I launch vehicle (using battleship upper stages), successfully launched into a sub-orbital trajectory from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Saturn C-5N

The Saturn C-5N was a conceptual version of the Saturn V launch vehicle which would have had a nuclear third stage instead of the S-IVB used on the Saturn V. This would have increased the payload to Low Earth orbit of the rocket from 118,000 kg to 155,000 kg.

VLS-1 V03

On August 22, 2003, at 13:30 (local time) an explosion destroyed the launch vehicle as it stood on its launch pad at the Alcântara Launch Center in the state of Maranhão in northern Brazil.


see also

17K-AM

17K-AM was the name of a two-stage russian orbital launch vehicle projected in 1993, proposed by the Russian Air Force and to be constructed by Chelomey.

Antrix Corporation

Successful Commercial Satellite Launches of Kitsat (Korea), Tubsat (DLR - Germany), BIRD (DLR - Germany), PROBA (Verhaert, Belgium) aboard the ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

BILSAT-1

BILSAT-1 was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 132/1, Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia by a Kosmos-3M space launch vehicle on September 27, 2003 at 06:12 UTC in a multiple-satellite payload launch along with six other satellites, namely Mozhayets-4 and Larets of Russia, NigeriaSat-1 of Nigeria, UK-DMC from the United Kingdom, South Korean STSAT-1 and Germany's Rubin 4-DS.

GeoEye-1

It was rescheduled for launch August 22, 2008 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II launch vehicle.

Imam Hossein University

On February 2009, Iran launched a satellite named Omid into orbit using the domestically built launch vehicle Safir-2, thus becoming the 9th nation to do so on Timeline of first orbital launches by country.

Indian Deep Space Network

IDSN began to track Chandrayaan 17 minutes after its launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Launch Centre at Sriharikota, when the satellite separated from the launch vehicle.

ITUpSAT1

It was launched on September 23, 2009 atop a PSLV-C14 satellite launch vehicle from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh in India, and became the first Turkish university satellite to orbit the Earth.

J-I

The J-I was a solid rocket expendable launch vehicle developed by the National Space Development Agency of Japan and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.

KAI KT-1 Woongbi

For the Chinese commercial launch vehicle also known as KT-1, see Kaituozhe-1.

LAPCAT

HOTOL (1986–88 design for single-stage-to-orbit reusable winged launch vehicle to use an air-breathing engine)

Lockheed Martin Space Systems

The core element was Lockheed's Agena spacecraft, the world's first multipurpose spacecraft with boost and maneuvering engines, also acting as the 2nd stage of the launch vehicle and/or carrier vehicle for the reconnaissance system.

Mahendragiri

ISRO Propulsion Complex, a test facility for Indian Space Research Organisation's launch vehicle and satellite propulsion systems, is situated on the lower slopes of this mountain.

Near Earth Network

The NEN was slated to support the Constellation Program, including the Ares launch vehicle, NISN (NASA Integrated Services Network), FDF (Flight Dynamics Facilities), KSC Launch Control Center, and the Constellation Mission Control Center (MCC).

Project Vanguard

The Vanguard "Satellite Launch Vehicle", a term invented for the operational SLV rockets as opposed to the Test Vehicle TV versions, was a much smaller and lighter launcher than the Redstone-based Jupiter-C/Juno 1 rocket which launched the Explorer satellites, or the immense R-7 that the Soviets used to launch the early Sputniks.

Science and technology in South Africa

1999, 23 February - SUNSAT, the first South African produced satellite was put in orbit by an American Delta II launch vehicle.

Shtil'

It is based on the R-29RM designed by State Rocket Center Makeyev and related to the Volna Launch Vehicle.

Simon Ramo

The Atlas would go on to serve as the launch vehicle for NASA’s Project Mercury orbital flights, starting with John Glenn in Friendship 7.

SpaceDev

Trailblazer was the primary payload for the third attempted flight of a Falcon 1 launch vehicle.

Thaicom 6

The spacecraft was launched on January 6, 2014, by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle.

Türksat 4A

According to the in-orbit delivery contract signed in early 2011, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) of Japan is constructing the satellite's base Spacebus MELCO DS2000, and the American-Russian joint-venture company International Launch Services (ILS) will provide the launch of the spacecraft atop a Russian Proton-M space launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan scheduled on February 10,2014.

Türksat 4B

According to the in-orbit delivery contract signed in early 2011, Mitsubishi Electric (MELCO) of Japan is in charge of the construction of the satellite's base Spacebus MELCO DS2000, and the American-Russian joint-venture company International Launch Services (ILS) will provide the launch of the spacecraft atop a Russian Proton-M space launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan scheduled in late 2014.

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

The centre pursues research and development in a host of distinct technology domains including Aeronautics, Avionics, Composites, etc. primarily for the purpose of advancing launch vehicle technology.