Launch vehicle
hideIn spaceflight, a launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket used to carry a payload from the Earth's surface into outer space. A launch system includes the launch vehicle, the launch pad and other infrastructure. Usually the payload is an artificial satellite placed into orbit, but some spaceflights are sub-orbital while others enable spacecraft to escape Earth orbit entirely. A launch vehicle which carries its payload on a suborbital trajectory is often called a sounding rocket.
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FASTSAT instruments shipped for tests and launch preparation
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Oct 26, 2009 |
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Three of the satellite instruments that will fly on an upcoming satellite mission called "FASTSAT" have been created at one NASA center and have arrived at another for more tests to ensure they are flight ...
NASA is 'go' for crucial rocket test
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Oct 25, 2009 |
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NASA is set to blast off a prototype rocket on Tuesday that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the program's future.
NASA and ATK Successfully Test Ares First Stage Motor
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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NASA and industry engineers lit up the Utah sky Thursday with the initial full-scale, full-duration test firing of the first stage motor for the Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a crew launch vehicle in development for NASA's ...
Rocket to Launch Inflatable Re-entry Capsule
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Inflatable aircraft are not a new idea. Hot air balloons have been around for more than two centuries and blimps are a common sight over many sports stadiums. But it's hard to imagine an inflatable ...
S.Korea first rocket launch set for August 11
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Aug 02, 2009 |
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South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday.
NASA Releases Orbiting Carbon Observatory Accident Summary
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Jul 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA panel that investigated the unsuccessful Feb. 24 launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, has completed its report.
SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November (w/Video)
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA's next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will ...
NASA Conducts First Ares I Rocket Cluster Parachute Test
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May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Unfurling in majestic patriotic colors, a successful cluster test of the Ares I rocket's three, 1-ton main parachutes was conducted May 20 by NASA and industry engineers at the U.S. Army Yuma ...
NASA to Test World's Largest Rocket Parachutes for Ares I
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May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With Memorial Day just around the corner, NASA plans a spectacular aerial display May 20 of the newly designed parachute recovery system for its Ares I rocket. The centerpieces for the test ...
Second firing test for Vega's Zefiro 9A solid rocket motor
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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On 28 April, the final qualification test firing of the third stage solid propellant motor for Europe’s new small launch vehicle took place at the Salto di Quirra Interforce Test Range in Sardinia, Italy.
Final Piece Of NASA's Next-Generation Rocket Heads To Launch Site
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at ...
SKorea postpones first space rocket launch: official
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Mar 12, 2009 |
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South Korea's first space rocket launch has been postponed by a month to late July to give engineers more time for tests, the government said Thursday.
NASA's Ares I Rocket First Stage Igniter Successfully Tested
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Mar 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has completed a successful test firing of the igniter that will be used to start the Ares I rocket first stage motor.
GOES-O satellite arrives at KSC for final pre-launch testing
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, arrived this morning by a C17 military ...
Test in Development of NASA's New Crew Rocket is Successful
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Jan 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of NASA's next-generation crew launch vehicle, the Ares I rocket, took another step forward Thursday as Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, successfully tested a critical piece. ATK ...
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