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Launch (295 bytes)
3: Uses of the word '''Launch''',
5: * A '''Launch''' can be type of boat [[Launch (boat)]].
6: * A ship or boat is '''Launched''' on it's maiden voyage see [[Slipway]].
7: * A rocket is '''Launched''' [[Launch vehicle]]
8: * [[LAUNCHcast]] is the name of a [[Yahoo!]] [[music]] relat...

Launch pad (1107 bytes)
1: ...''launch pad''' is designed and built to meet a [[launch vehicle]]'s special needs and requirements. For e...
3: ...these types of servicing requirements both during launch and in the preparation period leading up to it.
5: ... exploded, this severes the vehicle's ties to the launch pad and structures on the ground.

Sea Launch (2767 bytes)
1: ...oned in the equatorial [[Pacific Ocean]], for its launch platform.
3: ...r companies from four countries contribute to Sea Launch, and share in its ownership:
20: ...m (''[[Ocean Odyssey]]'') and command ship (''Sea Launch Commander'')
29: ...atform unmanned, the rocket is fueled and finally launched.
31: ...mmunications]], occurred on the second commercial launch in March [[2000]] and was blamed on a software er...

Rocket launch (3123 bytes)
1: [[Rocket]]s (including [[missile]]s) can be '''launched''' from the following:
2: *for a launch into an [[orbital spaceflight]] and beyond:
3: ...ating platform (see [[San Marco platform]], [[Sea Launch]])
4: *for the launch into a [[suborbital flight]] also:
6: **a [[mobile launcher vehicle]]

Launch capsule (319 bytes)
1: ...'launch capsule''' is used to carry a [[submarine-launched missile]] from the attacking [[submarine]] thro...

Launch window (1141 bytes)
1: ...e period in which a particular [[rocket]] must be launched.
2: ...nother (or a planet, or other point in space) the launch must be carefully timed so that the orbits overla...
3: If the rocket does not launch in the "window", it has to wait for the next one ...
5: ...iod is 2.135 years, i.e. 780 days. In other cases launch windows are irregular. Sometimes rare opportuniti...
7: For the actual launch time there is some flexibility, because the time ...

Air launch (624 bytes)
1: ...jpg|thumb|right|215px|A [[Boeing X-43]] being air launched from under the wing of a [[B-52 Stratofortress]...
2: '''Air Launching''' is the practice of dropping a [[parasite ai...

Yahoo! Launch (534 bytes)
2: '''Yahoo! Launch''' is a free [[music video]] [[website]] provided...
4: ...web radio]] service called '''[[LAUNCHcast]]'''. Launchcast service is available for free; however a paid...
7: *[http://www.launch.com Yahoo! Launch]

Launch angle (685 bytes)
1: In [[telecommunication]], the term '''launch angle''' has the following meanings:
9: ...the fiber is perpendicular to the fiber axis, the launch angle is equal to the incidence angle when the ra...

Launch tower (441 bytes)
1: ...ps ([[service tower]], [[supply tower) are called launch tower.

Zero length launch (489 bytes)
1: ...ermany through strategically placed fighters that launched without a runway by rocket.

Launch title (3244 bytes)
1: ...o game console]] is released, or launched. Often, launch titles don't affect the first-day sales of a cons...
3: ==Launch Title Listings==
4: ...tings are for the [[United States of America|US]] launches of the respective consoles.

Launch (boat) (222 bytes)
1: Today a '''Launch''' is a motorboat with an open or half open [[de...

Launch escape system (1427 bytes)
1: ...Abort_Launch.jpg|thumb|right|Apollo LES Pad Abort Launch]]
4: ...dule of a rocket and used to quickly separate and launch the crew module away from the rest of the rocket ...

Soyuz launch vehicle (4512 bytes)
1: ...m;">[[Image:Soyuz rocket ASTP.jpg|Soyuz rocket on launch pad.]]</div>
3: ...in [[2001]] and 9 in [[2002]]. Soyuz vehicles are launched from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhsta...
5: ...variant was the Soyuz U. The production of Soyuz launchers reached a peak of 60 per year in the early [[1...
7: ... modified second stage with a new engine. The new launcher is planned to fly first by the end of [[2006]] ...
9: ...[October 15]], [[2002]] when the unmanned Soyuz U launch of the Photon-M satellite from Plesetsk exploded ...

Rocket launch site (6537 bytes)
1: ...pad]]s or suitable sites to mount a transportable launchpad. For [[rocket]]s with liquid propellant, suita...
3: ...ble, if a rocket explodes. In most cases a rocket launch site is close to the sea, because the sea is a ve...
5: Rocket launch sites for he launch of satellites and interplanetary probes are calle...
7: In Europe there are only launch sites for [[sub-orbital spaceflight|suborbital]] ...
9: ...n [[Zingst]], where there was from 1988 to 1992 a launch site for Russian rockets of the type [[MMR06]]-M

Launch numerical aperture (566 bytes)
1: ...erture]] of an optical [[system]] used to couple (launch) [[Power (physics)|power]] into an [[optical fibe...

Expendable launch system (2722 bytes)
1: ... launch system]] where a single launch vehicle is launched more than once.
3: ...gellan probe]] was the first planetary spacecraft launched by a space shuttle.
5: ...e of this is the Titan IV, probably the costliest launch vehicle in history (perhaps following the Space S...
7: Expendable launch systems typically consist of stages which are dis...
9: == Expendable orbital launchers ==

Reusable launch system (2941 bytes)
1: ...ble launch system]], where each launch vehicle is launched once and then discarded.
3: ...d after several months of refitting work for each launch. The external fuel tank is discarded.
5: ...ocket side-boosters were reusable. The Buran was launched successfully on November 15, 1988 and returned ...
7: ...Kistler Aerospace]] -- have developed but not yet launched reusable and partially reusable orbital RLVs.
9: ...anned [[suborbital]] RLVs have been developed and launched. The [[North American X-15 | X-15]], flown bet...

Dnipro launch vehicle (314 bytes)
1: ...u]] in [[Dnipropetrovsk]]. It is an [[expendable launch system]] based on the [[SS-18]] [[ICBM]].
6: [[Category:Space launch vehicles]] [[Category:Ukrainian space program]]

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