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Sounding rocket 2 Suborbital Retired (0/1) 2018 [36] Astra Rocket 3 Light rocket 2 LEO Retired (2/5) 2020 [37] [38] Astra Rocket 4 Light rocket 2 LEO Development 2023 (planned) [39] [40] SALVO Light rocket 2 LEO Cancelled — [41] [42] [43] Bellatrix Aerospace: Chetak Light rocket 2 LEO Development 2023 (planned) Blue Origin: New Shepard ...
Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes in 1958; in 1961, the company moved to a 77-acre tract of land on the outskirts of Penrose, Colorado. [10] [1] In 1969, Vernon sold the company to the Damon Corporation of Needham, Massachusetts, a company which also purchased a number of other hobby companies including a smaller competitor of Estes, Centuri Engineering of Phoenix, Arizona.
The UR-900 was the ultimate Universal Rocket application, a super heavy-lift launch vehicle for crewed expeditions to other planets, especially Mars. Proposed in 1969, it would have had 15 RD-270 modules in the first and second stages, and the third and fourth stages were based on those of the UR-500.
In March 2015, an Atlas V rocket carried NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission spacecraft, [108] [109] and a Delta IV rocket orbited the GPS IIF-9 satellite on behalf of the U.S. Air Force. [ 110 ] [ 111 ] The U.S. Air Force's X-37B spaceplane was carried by an Atlas V rocket in May 2015, [ 112 ] and a Delta IV orbited the WGS-7 satellite in ...
Hybrid-propellant rockets use a combination of solid and liquid propellant, typically involving a liquid oxidizer being pumped through a hollow cylinder of solid fuel. All current spacecraft use conventional chemical rockets (solid-fuel or liquid bipropellant) for launch, though some [note 3] have used air-breathing engines on their first stage ...
The CRV7, short for "Canadian Rocket Vehicle 7", is a 2.75-inch (70 mm) folding-fin ground attack rocket produced by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was introduced in the early 1970s as an upgraded version of the standard U.S. 2.75-inch air-to-ground rocket.
Danish PULS-lauchner with EXTRA type missile pods. It can be configured to carry a variety of rockets in two sealed pod containers: 36 (2 pods × 18 rockets each) 122mm Grad rockets; or 26 (2×13) 160mm LAR-160 or ACCULAR rockets; or eight (2×4) 306mm EXTRA rockets; two (2×1) 330mm Delilah missiles or four (2×2) 370mm Predator Hawk tactical ballistic missiles.
ISRO's launch vehicles. Left to right: SLV, ASLV, PSLV, GSLV, LVM3 RLV Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV) Vikram series, the under development orbital class launch family of Skyroot Aerospace in comparison with already flown Vikram S, the sounding rocket