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  • 21Expander cycle (rocket) — The expander cycle is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine meant to improve the efficiency of fuel delivery.In an expander cycle, the fuel is heated before it is combusted, usually with waste heat from the main combustion chamber. As the …

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  • 22Centaur (rocket stage) — Centaur is a rocket stage designed for use as the upper stage of space launch vehicles. Centaur boosts its satellite payload to its final orbit or, in the case of an interplanetary space probe, to escape velocity. Centaur was the world s first… …

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  • 23Proton rocket — Infobox rocket caption =Launch of a Proton rocket name = Proton 8K82K function = Unmanned Launch Vehicle manufacturer = Khrunichev country origin = Soviet Union, Russia height = 53 m alt height = diameter = 7.4 m alt diameter = mass = 693,810 kg… …

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  • 24Draco (rocket engine) — Draco Country of origin United States Manufacturer SpaceX Liquid fueled engine Propellant nitrogen tetroxide[1] / monomethyl hydrazine …

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  • 25Long March (rocket family) — A Long March rocket (simplified Chinese: 长征系列运载火箭; traditional Chinese: 長征系列運載火箭; pinyin: Chángzhēng xìliè yùnzài huǒjiàn) or Chang Zheng rocket as in Chinese pinyin is any rocket in a family of expendable launch systems operated by the People s… …

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  • 26Titan (rocket family) — Infobox Aircraft name=Titan family caption=The Titan rocket family. type=Expendable launch system with various applications manufacturer=Glenn L. Martin Company designer= first flight=1958 12 20 [cite web url=http://www.geocities.com/titan 1… …

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  • 27Delta rocket — Infobox Aircraft name=Delta Family caption=The Delta rocket family. type=Expendable launch system with various applications manufacturer=United Launch Alliance designer= first flight= introduced=1960 status=active primary user= produced= number… …

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  • 28Global Rocket 1 — The Global Rocket 1 (GR 1) was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The system also was given the NATO reporting name SS X 10… …

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  • 29launch 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 …

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  • 30Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle — Infobox rocket name = GSLV imsize = 250 caption = Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle function = Expendable launch vehicle manufacturer = ISRO country origin = IND height = 49 m alt height = 160 ft diameter = 2.8 m alt diameter = 9.1 ft mass …

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