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Product Name: Expendable Launch Vehicles
Product Description
Expendable Launch Vehicles, or ELV's, are vehicles designed to launch a payload into space. Historically, payloads have been government and commercial communications satellites, weather satellites, remote observation satellites as well as many other types of unique space craft.
An expendable launch vehicle is made up of one or more rocket stages. After each stage has burned its compliment of propellant, it is expended (jettisoned from the vehicle) and left to crash back to Earth.
This section provides an overview of the world's fleet of expendable launch vehicles.
Company Details
The Space Database provides a comprehensive overview of aerospace products and hardware, including expendable and reusable launch vehicles, rocket engines and motors, as well as satellite buses, satellite constellations, upper stages and launch... more
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