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  • ...ough use of an airship-derived launch vehicle instead of a missile-derived launch vehicle. ==Component Vehicles==
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  • ...They currently use two [[medium lift]] launch vehicles, the [[Ariane]] 5 and [[Soyuz]]. ...e one of two european commercial launch providers with a man-rated orbital launch vehicle.
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  • ...e are three basic varieties. Solid rockets (see the stick), liquid rockets and hybrid rockets. In a solid rocket the oxidizer and reducer are mixed in a hardened powder. Channels are cut in the oxidizer to
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  • [[Category:Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles]]
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  • ...oll of paper towels. This allows them to use less-powerful launch vehicles and makes for roomier space stations. ...l employed there. And he tracked down Schneider, by then retired from NASA and teaching at Texas A&M University.
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  • ...on Space Center in Russia, also provides use of the [[Proton]] rocket as a launch vehicle for ILS. ...only private launch provider in the United States with a man-rated orbital launch vehicle.
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  • ...propulsion]] engine that is powered by a [[nuclear power source]]. These vehicles have high a specific impulse. Thus they can move large distances in space w ...ace tug]] is a vehicle that stays is space and is used to transport, cargo and satellites in space with minimal expenditure of propellant. Because electri
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  • ...t viable commercial launch companies, and was the first to develop its own launch vehicle independent of previous contract work with government space agencie [[category:Commercial Launch Providers]]
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  • ...es Corporation ([[OSC]]), is the world's first privately developed orbital launch vehicle. ...d from a jet aircraft, giving it considerable potential energy of position and some drag advantage. The Pegasus rocket is also winged (similar to a cruis
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  • ...ations. It has been used extensively to support the [[Mir]] space station and [[ISS]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_spacecraft Wikipedia Article: Progress Spacecraft]
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  • ...for outer planet missions but presents considerable economic, engineering and political challenges for any use for a mission to [[Mars]] or the [[Moon]]. ...les to the outer planets include: [[gas core nuclear reactor]], [[VASIMR]] and [[salt water nuclear reactor]]s.
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  • ...r technologies that could be used on future [[SSTO|Single Stage to Orbit]] spacecraft. It is similar in concept to the cancelled [[DC-X|Delta Clipper]] flown by [[Category:Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles]]
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  • ...too long for fuel cells, batteries and generators to provide economically, and in places where solar cells are not viable. ...action is not carefully controlled the number of atoms undergoing fission (and the heat production) can grow exponentially, very rapidly becoming hot enou
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  • [[category:Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles]]
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  • ...use of composite construction to build experimental aircraft for industry and for their high quality kit aircraft for home builders. ...ul [[Pegasus]] rocket and prototypes for the [[Roton]] and [[DC-X]] launch vehicles.
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  • ...approach used to develop the [[Zenit]] launch vehicle from the [[Energia]] launch vehicle. Variations of shuttle derived launch vehicle designs include:
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  • ...ding a large reusable vehicle, thus reducing the complexity of the vehicle and its maintenance. But this has a big disadvantage: the vehicle needs to lift ...s of the fuel itself might be high enough compared to the mass of the tank and insulation to make it more efficient.
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  • SpaceShip One, built by [[Scaled Composites]] and piloted by [[Mike Melvill]], was the first privately built craft to success Further development of the launch system is planned using a larger SpaceShip Two design for suborbital touris
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  • [[category:Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles]]
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  • Led by British entrepreneur Sir [[Richard Branson]] and aerospace designer [[Burt Rutan]] of [[Scaled Composites]] ...s to manufacture launch aircraft, various spacecraft and support equipment and market those products to spaceliner operators.
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