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Category Scope
15 Launch Vehicles and Launch Operations
Includes all classes of launch vehicles, launch/space vehicle systems,
and boosters; and launch operations. For related information see also 18 Spacecraft
Design, Testing, and Performance; and 20 Spacecraft
Propulsion and Power.
Definition
Launch Vehicles – Rockets or other vehicles used to transport satellites, space probes, or other payloads from the Earth (or other terrestrial surface) to space. NASA Thesaurus, Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use. Wm. H. Allen, ed., 1965. NASA SP-7.
NASA Interest
Exhaustive Interest : Design, research, development, testing, evaluation, and performance of any launch vehicle, combination of launch vehicle and space vehicle, launch system components, and all operating procedures and problems related to launch vehicles.
Negative Interest : Design, performance, and effects of military weapons and warheads delivered by launch vehicle; pyrotechnic rockets used for displays and festivals.
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Input Subjects of Specific Interest
- air launched vehicles
- boosters (launch vehicles)
- combinations of launch vehicles and space vehicles
- commercial launch vehicles
- countdown
- design of launch vehicles, tanks, components, systems
- electromagnetic launchers (operations)
- launch operations
- launch vehicle auxiliary systems
- launch vehicle configurations
- launch vehicle design
- launch vehicle dynamics
- launch vehicle performance
- launch vehicle preparation
- launch vehicle stability
- launch vehicle testing
- launch vehicles
- light gas guns (operations)
- multistage launch vehicles
- nose cones
- orbit-on-demand vehicles
- reentry launch vehicles
- reusable vehicles
- rocket launchers
- rockets
- satellite launching dynamics
- separation and staging techniques (for stages of launch vehicles)
- single-stage launch vehicles
- sounding rockets
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