Rocket Function
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| Manned LEO | Saturn V | |||
| Lunar Launch Vehicle | Saturn V | |||
| Spaceplane |
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Aircraft type | SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) Space Transportation System |
A spaceplane is a rocket plane designed to pass the edge of space. It combines some of the features of an aircraft and some of a spacecraft. Typically, it takes the form of a spacecraft equipped with wing.
The orbit spaceplanes successfully flown...
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| Skylon | ||||
| AVATAR | ||||
| BSC X-1 | ||||
| Véhicule Suborbital Habité (VSH) | ||||
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| Launch vehicle |
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Industry | Taurus rocket |
In 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...
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| Saturn INT-21 | ||||
| Diamant | ||||
| Saturn-Shuttle | ||||
| Zenit rocket | ||||
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| Space station |
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Industry | Saturn INT-21 |
A space station is an artificial structure designed for human to live in outer space. So far only low earth orbit (LEO) stations are implemented, also known as orbital stations. A space station is distinguished from other manned spacecraft by its...
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| Satellite |
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Type/domain equivalent topic | Black Arrow |
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellite such as the Moon.
The first fictional...
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| EELV | Atlas V |
The Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program is a United States government, primarily a Department of Defense–sponsored effort begun in the 1990s. Its goal is to develop at least one family of space launch vehicles, that would meet the long...
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| Low Earth orbit | Satellite Orbit Type | Saturn-Shuttle |
A Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is generally defined as an orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2,000 km. Given the rapid orbital decay of objects below approximately 200 km, the commonly accepted definition for LEO...
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| Location | Saturn V | |||
| Saturn IB | ||||
| Voskhod rocket | ||||
| Saturn INT-20 | ||||
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| Sounding rocket |
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Jupiter-C |
A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The origin of the term comes from nautical vocabulary, it refers...
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| SpaceLoft XL | ||||
| Starchaser 4 | ||||
| Intercontinental ballistic missile |
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Titan I |
An intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, is a long-range (greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles) ballistic missile typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery, that is, delivering one or more nuclear warheads. However, new designs...
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| Titan II | ||||
| Human spaceflight |
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Industry | SpaceDev Dream Chaser(TM) Space Transportation System |
A human spaceflight is a spaceflight with a human crew, and possibly passengers. This makes it unlike robotic space probe or remotely-controlled satellite. Human spaceflight is sometimes called manned spaceflight, a term now deprecated by major...
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| Book Subject | BSC X-1 | |||
| Véhicule Suborbital Habité (VSH) | ||||
| Orbital spaceflight |
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Industry | Skylon |
An orbital spaceflight (or orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which a spacecraft is placed on a trajectory where it could remain in space for at least one orbit. To do this around the Earth, it must be on a free trajectory which has an altitude at...
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| Sub-orbital spaceflight | Industry | BSC X-1 |
A sub-orbital spaceflight (or sub-orbital flight) is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched, so that it does not complete one...
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| Aircraft type | Véhicule Suborbital Habité (VSH) | |||
| Space tourism (Personal Spaceflight) |
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Industry | BSC X-1 |
Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space pioneered by Russia.
As of 2008, orbital space tourism opportunities are limited and expensive, with only the Russian Space Agency providing transport. The price for a...
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| Reusable launch system |
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Aircraft type | Skylon |
A reusable launch system (or RLV: reusable launch vehicle) is a launch system which is capable of launching a launch vehicle into space more than once. This contrasts with expendable launch system, where each launch vehicle is launched once and then...
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| Kankoh-maru | ||||
| Single-stage-to-orbit |
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Skylon |
A single-stage-to-orbit (or SSTO) vehicle reaches orbit from the surface of a body without jettisoning hardware, expending only propellants and fluids. The term usually, but not exclusively, refers to reusable vehicles.
No Earth-launched SSTO...
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| Kankoh-maru | ||||
| Two-stage-to-orbit | Spacebus |
A two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO or DSTO - Double/Dual-Stage-To-Orbit) launch vehicle is a spacecraft in which two distinct stages provide propulsion consecutively in order to achieve orbital velocity. It is intermediate between the more common system...
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