interplanetary vehicle
1Interplanetary spaceflight — or interplanetary travel is travel between planets within a single planetary system. In practice, spaceflights of this type are confined to travel between the planets of the Solar System. Current achievements in interplanetary travel Remotely… …
2Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment — Infobox Spacecraft Name = Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment Organization = Planetary Society Contributors = NPO Lavochkin Mission Type = Astrobiological experiment Launch = 2009The Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) is an… …
3launch 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 …
4Lunar Roving Vehicle — This article is about the Apollo rovers. For the Soviet robotic rovers, see Lunokhod program. For the planned Chinese robotic rover, see Chang e 3. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or lunar rover was a battery powered four wheeled rover used on the …
5Launch vehicle — Satellite launch vehicle redirects here. For the Indian rocket, see Satellite Launch Vehicle A Russian Soyuz lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan heading for the ISS In spaceflight, a launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket… …
6Crew Exploration Vehicle — This page refers to initial design, for current version see: Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. CEV initial concept in Lockheed Martin design, showing delta wing crew module (at right), with a mission module and propulsion stage (with rocket engines)… …
7Lunar Roving Vehicle — Rover lunaire Eugene A. Cernan conduisant un Rover lunaire lors de la mission Apollo 17 avant son assemblage final (les caméras et antennes ne sont pas installées). Le Rover lunaire[Note 1] ( …
8Soyuz launch vehicle — The Soyuz launch vehicle (Western designation: A 2) is an expendable launch system manufactured by TsSKB Progress in Samara, Russia. It is used as the launcher for the manned Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz program. It is now also used to… …
9Spacecraft propulsion — A remote camera captures a close up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial… …
10Gravity assist — In orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering, a gravitational slingshot, gravity assist or swing by is the use of the relative movement and gravity of a planet or other celestial body to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically in… …
