How to Use launch vehicle in a Sentence

launch vehicle

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Definition of launch vehiclenext
  • The cost for such a launch vehicle would be about half that charged by foreign companies, ISRO believes.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 June 2018
  • Each of the automakers are aiming to launch vehicles using Rivian’s technology during the second half of the decade.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 26 June 2024
  • While the Soyuz rocket is considered a reliable launch vehicle in the space sector, this is not the first failure in the Soyuz program’s history.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the Soviets still didn’t have a launch vehicle that could carry a spacecraft around the moon with the heavy cargo — oxygen, food, water — needed to support human life.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Built for rapid reusability, the new launch vehicle sports retractable landing legs, thermal protection coating, and Titanium grid fins.
    — Robin Seemangal, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2018
  • Of course, this isn't even the first time we've been tricked by an old launch vehicle.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The hardware in question is the first stage of the flight version of the New Glenn launch vehicle.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The plane is used as the first stage launch platform for the air launch stage of the smallsat orbital launch vehicle, the LauncherOne.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Reusable launch vehicles were the big step of the last decade.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The latter wouldn’t be limited by the size of its launch vehicle.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
  • There were once beliefs that the rocket could have belonged to a SpaceX launch vehicle from back in 2015.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 June 2022
  • The lander will then deposit them in a small pod within the launch vehicle to be launched a short time later.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2022
  • But there’s not a lot of difference between a space-launch vehicle and an ICBM.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Today’s journey will mark the first time the crawler has transported a launch vehicle to the pad since its 2016 update.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
  • And while the telescope is the same one that was ready to fly on Soyuz in 2022, additional work was needed to support the switch to a new launch vehicle.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
  • Among the three launches will be the debut of the country's SSLV, or small satellite launch vehicle.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2022
  • There are many changes here, but one of the biggest is moving away from the goal of a fully reusable launch vehicle.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The spacecraft is called Starship, and its launch vehicle is Super Heavy.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Recovering and reusing parts of its rockets is at the core of SpaceX's plans to make its launch vehicles cheaper.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 July 2019
  • SpaceX is looking to launch its first orbital flight this year aboard its Starship launch vehicle.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 13 July 2022
  • And to be fair, developing a new super-heavy lift launch vehicle like SLS is no small feat.
    — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Its launch vehicle, the company's New Glenn rocket, is slated for its first flights in 2021.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 9 May 2019
  • If something goes wrong with the Falcon 9 rocket, Crew dragon can escape the launch vehicle to safety and splashdown in the ocean.
    — Rachael Joy, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2020
  • SpaceX had its first launch of its next-generation launch vehicle 10 years ago.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 June 2020
  • The transporter and launch vehicle for the Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Northrop Grumman, which is building a launch vehicle called OmegA, will receive up to $792 million.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Nov. 2019
  • But Starship is a very powerful launch vehicle, outstripping the thrust of Saturn 5 rockets that sent men to the Moon.
    — Don Lincoln, CNN, 19 July 2021
  • Russia had been due to provide the rover’s nuclear power source, as well as the launch vehicle and landing platform.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The center also boasts a replica of a Saturn V — the famous rocket that was used as a launch vehicle to get the Apollo missions into space.
    — Currie Engel, Time, 15 July 2019
  • Rocket Lab’s Electron, for example, is the only small orbital launch vehicle in the world that is designed to be largely reusable.
    — Riis Williams, Scientific American, 7 June 2024

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