- orbital launch system
- система орбитального запуска
English-Russian glossary on space technology. 2015.
English-Russian glossary on space technology. 2015.
Reusable launch system — A reusable launch system (or reusable launch vehicle, RLV) is a launch system which is capable of launching a launch vehicle into space more than once. This contrasts with expendable launch systems, where each launch vehicle is launched once and… … Wikipedia
Expendable launch system — An expendable launch system is a launch system that uses an expendable launch vehicle (ELV) to carry a payload into space. The vehicles used in expendable launch systems are designed to be used only once (i.e. they are expended during a single… … Wikipedia
Comparison of orbital launch systems — This page exposes the full list of orbital launch systems. For the short simple list of launchers families, see Comparison of orbital launchers families. Orbital launch systems are rockets and other systems capable of placing payloads into or… … Wikipedia
HL-20 Personnel Launch System — HL 20 Mock Up Operator NASA Mission type Orbiter Satellite of Eart … Wikipedia
Manned Orbital Development System — was created by the US Air Force Space System Division (SSD) in June 1962. It was to begin working on plans to use Gemini hardware as the first step in a new US Air Force man in space program called MODS (Manned Orbital Development System), a type … Wikipedia
Fractional Orbital Bombardment System — The Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) was a Soviet ICBM program in the 1960s that after launch would go into a low Earth orbit and would then de orbit for an attack. It had no range limit and the orbital flight path would not reveal… … Wikipedia
Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System — OMS pod schematic The Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System, or OMS (pronounced /omz/), is a system of rocket engines designed and manufactured by Aerojet[1] for use on the space shuttle orbiter for orbital injection and modifying … Wikipedia
Launch loop — A launch loop or Lofstrom loop is a design for a belt based maglev orbital launch system that would be around 2,000 km long and maintained at an altitude of up to 80 km (50 mi). A launch loop would be held up at this altitude by momentum of the… … Wikipedia
launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space. [1955 1960] * * * Rocket system that boosts a spacecraft into Earth orbit or beyond Earth s gravitational pull. A wide variety of launch vehicles … Universalium
Orbital Sciences Corporation — For the Australian company, see Orbital Corporation Limited. Orbital Sciences Corporation Type Public (NYSE: ORB) Industry Aerosp … Wikipedia
Orbital ring — An Orbital Ring is a concept for a space elevator that consists of a ring in low earth orbit that rotates at above orbital speed, that has fixed tethers hanging down to the ground. The structure is intended to be used for space launch. The… … Wikipedia