It's a hoary example but worth repeating: Toyota's launch vehicle was a Corona, not a Lexus.
Just the political issues involved might make it hard to find inexpensive space on a launch vehicle.
This is the 23rd mission for India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) - a seven-storey-high, 230 tonne rocket.
Strand-1 is booked to fly on the Indian space agency's (Isro) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on 25 February.
All of this is fighting up against the limitations of the launch vehicle.
The company successfully developed its own launch vehicle, the Falcon 9 rocket, and its own spacecraft, called the Dragon.
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Also on board Chow's international launch vehicle: Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) as his sidekick, a master counterfeiter.
To do that would require a Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle with a stack of two Star 48A engines.
Liberty provides greater performance at less cost than any other comparable launch vehicle.
On August 18, Russia lost a sophisticated Express-AM4 telecommunications satellite when the launch vehicle put it into the wrong orbit.
This includes implementation across all aspects of the space system, including the spacecraft, launch vehicle, and ground and mission operations.
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This should make them safer than shuttle astronauts who were strapped to the side of the launch vehicle, the Senators said.
Additionally, this architecture provides a modular launch vehicle that can be configured for specific mission needs using a variation of common elements.
"When somebody makes a cheap, reusable launch vehicle that can get up to orbit, all sorts of things will change, " Carmack says.
The 1, 008kg satellite was launched from a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
As it happens, Moscow is actively marketing its SS-25 ICBM as a "START I space launch vehicle, " complete with its standard-issue mobile transporter-erector-launcher.
And for the Europeans, it was clear that the Ariane 5 would become bigger and bigger, and so we needed a mid-class launch vehicle.
Nothing wrong in that, you might say, but plans for India's first inter-continental ballistic missile depend heavily on the technology developed for its space-launch vehicle.
The five-segment booster is intended to power the early flight phase of Nasa's proposed Ares 1 launch vehicle - its replacement for the space shuttle.
Following completion of the current Ares V super-heavy-lift rocket program, the Space Launch System, I believe that the government should commercialize all future launch vehicle development and operations.
Constellation would have developed a heavy lift launch vehicle, crew capsule, and other technology needed to return astronauts to the Moon, and then eventually carry them on to Mars.
GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based firm that focuses on "emerging security challenges, " said the image released by DigitalGlobe shows the contrail, or vapor trail, and rocket exhaust plume of the launch vehicle.
The tests appear to have involved "liquid-fuelled, first stage engines" for either North Korea's existing satellite launch vehicle, or a new long-range missile first seen during a military parade this year, the institute said.
This figure includes not just the work on the rocket, but its Orion astronaut capsule and the ground work needed at Kennedy to get the spaceport ready for a new type of launch vehicle.
What is not clear, as Mr Clark observes, is whether this figure refers to the whole programme including the new launch pad and assembly building at Jiuquan or simply to the cost of the spacecraft and the launch vehicle.
"Developing a mid-class launch vehicle in Europe would have cost between three and five billion euros, and building the Soyuz launch pad has been just - if I can say 'just' - around 400 million euros, " he explained.
"But our concerns with Iran's development of space launch vehicle technologies are obviously well-known: Any space launch vehicle capable of placing an object in orbit is directly relevant to the development of long-range ballistic missiles, " she told reporters.
One day Orion might be able to take astronauts to space, but at the moment no one can even say how much it will cost, when it will fly, where it will fly or even on which launch vehicle.
It will probably direct that development of a new heavy lift launch vehicle begin much sooner based on technology already in hand, and that the crew capsule being developed for the canceled Constellation program be retained for other purposes.
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