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  • 21Pegasus rocket — Pegasus rockets are the winged space booster vehicles used in an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital). Three main stages burning solid propellant provide most thrust. The rocket is carried aloft below… …

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  • 22Titan (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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  • 23Soyuz 2 rocket — Infobox rocket name =Soyuz 2 (Soyuz 2.1a/2.1b/STK) caption = A MetOp spacecraft ready for the launch atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket. function =Orbital carrier rocket manufacturer =TsSKB Progress country origin =Russia cpl year = cpl = height =46.1 m… …

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  • 24Dnepr rocket — Infobox rocket name =Dnepr (Dnipro/Konversiya) caption = function =Orbital carrier rocket manufacturer =Yuzhny Machine Building Plant country origin = Soviet Union (Ukraine) cpl year = cpl = height =34.3 m alt height =112.5 ft diameter =3 m alt… …

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  • 25Rotary Rocket — Rotary Rocket, Inc, was a rocketry company headquartered in a convert|45000|sqft|m2|sing=on facility at Mojave Airport that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. Roton… …

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  • 26Long March rocket — A Long March rocket (zh stp|s=长征系列运载火箭|t=長征系列運載火箭|p=Chángzhēng xìliè yùnzài huǒjiàn) is any rocket in a family of expendable launch systems operated by the People s Republic of China. Development and design falls under the auspices of the China… …

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  • 27Ariane (rocket) — Ariane is a series of a European civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use. The name comes from the French spelling of the mythological character Ariadne; the word is also used in French to describe some types of hummingbird.France …

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  • 28Delta (rocket family) — Delta Family The Delta rocket family. Role Expendable launch system with various applications …

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  • 29Centaur (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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  • 30List of Qassam rocket attacks, 2004 — The following is a list of notable and/or newsworthy Qassam rocket and mortar attacks in 2004.;May 18, 2004:Operation Rainbow began on May 18, 2004 and ended on May 23, 2004 in Rafah the Gaza Strip. Israel s aim was to kill militants after the… …

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