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Launch Vehicles

• General
  • A Rocket a Day Keeps the High Costs Away
  • Access to Space supports the development and implementation of mission concepts by identifying frequent and affordable opportunities for access to space and advocating changes that reduce the cost of access
  • Advanced Space Transportation Program an initiative to move technologies beyond the Space Shuttle... beyond the next-generation Reusable Launch Vehicle... to explore transportation systems for the future
  • Amateur Rocketry
    • Aerocon Systems Co. rocket apparatus for inventors and experimenters
    • Amateur Rocketry Links Library
    • Model Rockets
      • Flying Model Rockets
      • Handbook of Model Rocketry
      • Model Rocketry for Educators
      • NARHAMS Model Rocket Club
      • Organization
        • Colonial Virginia High Power Rocketry
        • Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society
      • Practikal Rocketry lots of great resources for rocketry
      • Reference for Model Rockets
      • USA Spacemodeling international model rocketry competition
    • Pete's Rockets United Kingdom power and model rocket specialist
    • Rocketry.Org central location on the Internet for amateur and experimental rocketry information
    • Sub-Orbital Rocket - Amateur Class (SORAC)
  • Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transpostation
  • Deep Cold look at how some of the Cold War projects may have looked had they been pursued
  • Bipropellant rocket design
  • space launch vehicle PDF documents
  • Engines
    • Mark Wade's Encyclopedia of Spaceflight Rocket Engines Alphabetical List or Rocket Engines by Propellant Type
    • Russian engine data table
  • Europe
    • ESA launcher's web site
    • Rockets in Europe
  • Expendable Launch Vehicles
    • Expendable Launch Vehicle Requirements Main Page
    • Expendable Launch Vehicles
    • International Expendable Launch Vehicle Data for Planetary Missions (NASA/JSC)
    • John F. Kennedy Space Center - Expendable Launch Vehicles
    • US Expendable Launch Vehicle Data for Planetary Missions (NASA/JSC)
    • NASA/KSC Virtual Launch Control Center
  • Experimental Manned Rocketry Association of America
  • Florida Launchers
  • Future
    • "Space Shuttle: The Next Generation"
  • India Launch Vehicles
  • International Launch Services
  • International Launch Standings successful/unsuccessful lauches by launch site, launch vehicle, orbit, and payload prime contractor
  • Kelly Space and Technology Space Transportation Architecture Study
  • Mark Wade's Encyclopedia of Spaceflight Launch Vehicle Alphabetical Reference or Launch Vehicle by Family Make sure you check this out! It is the most complete list of just about every launch vehicle I have found
  • Jonathan McDowell's LAUNCHLOG master list of satellite orbital launches and launch attempts
  • Jonathan's History of Spaceflight - Launch Vehicles launch vehicle photo archive
  • Launch Schedules
    • Commercial Space Launch Bulletin
    • Commercial Space Launch Schedule
    • Expendable Launch Vehicle
      • NASA ELV Long Range Planning - Potential Missions (PDF)
      • International Commercial ELV Launch Manifest (PowerPoint)
      • ELV Launch History (PDF)
    • Florida Launch Schedule
    • Historical Launch Activity
    • Integrated Launch Forecast Forecast of anticipated dates for the NASA Space Shuttle and NASA payloads on expendable vehicles
    • Long Range Commercial Launch Forecasts
    • Meteorological/Environmental Satellites Launch Schedules
    • most recent launch
    • Recent space launches
    • SPACE.com's current schedule of rockets planned for launch from around the world
    • Space Coast Launch Schedule
    • Spaceflight Now | Tracking Station | Launch Log
    • Vandenberg Air Force Base
      • Vandenberg Air Force Base Launch Schedule
      • VAFB Unclassified Launch Schedule
    • NASA Wallops Facility Projects Page
    • Spaceflight Now | Tracking Station | Worldwide launch schedule
    • Worldwide space launches
      • 1998
      • 1999
      • 2000
      • 2001
      • 2002
  • Launch Sites
    • General
      • Jonathan's History of Spaceflight - Launch Sites
      • Launch Complex Models
      • Mark Wade 's Encyclopaedia of Spaceflight Launch Site Index
      • Jonathan McDowell's Launch Sites
      • Launch Sites

    • Baikonur Cosmodrome
    • Cape Canaveral Air Station
      • 45th Weather Squadron
      • Cape Canaveral Air Sation Virtual Tour
      • Cape Canaveral Spaceport Planning and Customer Service Office
      • Complex 19 (Gemini Launch Pad)
      • Complex 34 (Apollo Launch Pad)
      • Modern Ruins: Cape Canaveral
      • The Cape: Military Space Operations 1971-1992
    • Guiana Space Center
      • Arianespace - Europe's Spaceport
    • Kagoshima Space Center
      • Space development agency/Kagoshima Space Center (KSC)
    • Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral
      • Kennedy Space Center live webcam
      • NASA - Kennedy Space Center Launch Site Support Office serves as the primary interface between the Kennedy Space Center payload community and the payload customer
      • payload status
      • Space Shuttle Launch Images
      • Spaceline, Inc. Dedicated to covering the Past, Present and Future of Cape Canaveral
      • live video (RealPlayer)
      • weather reports
    • Poker Flat Research Range Grand Tour
    • Tanegashima Space Center
      • Tanegashima Space Center
    • Vandenberg Air Force Base
      • Launch viewing tips
      • VAFB Launch Site Map
    • Wallops Flight Facility
      • Viewing Rocket Launches from WFF
      • Wallops Schedules
  • Les lanceurs spatiaux dans le monde
  History and drawing of the launch vehicles which have made the space conquest. From Sputnik to Space Shuttle, Saturn, Ariane. and others.
  • Lifting bodies
    • Wingless Flight
  • Movies
    • Orbital Sciences' Corporation QuickTIme Archives Pegasus and Taurus launches
  • KSC Next Gen Site routine, affordable access to space
  • Office of Space Flight Miscellaneous Information Shuttle launch and landing information and Expendable Launch Vehicle information
  • Orbital Launch Services (OLS) (NASA/GSFC)
  • Orbital and Planetary Launch Services FAQ
  • Federal Payload Testing Facility
  • Photographing Launches
  • The Problems of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor (NASA SP-4026,1995)
  • Propellant
    • Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959 (NASA SP-4404)
  • Reuseable Launch Vehicles (RLV)
    • NASA's RLV Technology Program
    • NASA/KSC RLV Next Generation
  • Rocket Guy (aka Brian Walker)
    • Project R.U.S.H.
    • "When Rocket Guy dreams"
  • Rocket history
  • Mark Wade 's Encyclopaedia of Spaceflight Rocket Stages Alphabetical List or Rocket Stages by Propellant Type
  • Safety
    • Payload safety
  • Single Stage Rocket Technology
  • Sounding Rockets
    • NASA Wallops Sounding Rockets Program Office (SRPO)
      • SRPO launch schedule
    • NASA's Sounding Rocket Program (NASA/WFF)
    • NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: A Historical Summary (NASA SP-4401)
    • Sounding Rocket Program Handbook
  • Space Launch Initiative safe, reliable, cost-effective space transportation technology
    • Space Launch Initiative News
  • Space Today Online -- Space Rockets
  • Space Transport Vehicles and technologies that will take us to space in the near future.
  • Space Transportation (NASA/MSFC)
  • Space Transportation Association represents the interests of organizations and people who are engaged in developing, building, operating, and using space transportation vehicles, systems, and services to provide reliable, economical, safe, and routine access to space for private users and government, civil, and military users
  • Space Transportation Knowledge Base An attempt to develop a systematic base of fundamental knowledge about space transportation systems
  • Spacecraft Slideshow: Next Generation of Spacecraft A look at 13 of the 15 competing vehicles registered so far for the X-Prize.
  • Sub-orbital Space Experiment Module
  • Upper Stages and Apogee Motors Details on final stages and apogee motors used for orbital space launches
  • Vehicle Analysis Branch Advanced Launch Vehicles (NASA/LaRC)
  • Viewing a Launch or Landing
    • KSC Launch and Landing Viewing Information Page
    • KSC Launch and Landing Viewing Information Site
    • Ozzie's Space Launch Viewing FAQ Page
    • Viewing Vandenberg Air Force Base Launches
  • Worldwide Space Launches - 1998

• Advanced Manned Launch System (AMLS)
• Ariane
  • Ariane 503
  • Ariane Launches
  • Arianespace page
  • ESA page
  • go-Ariane
  • Provisional Launch Manifest
  • NGST page
  • Spaceflight Now | Ariane Launch Report
• Atlas
  • General
    • Atlas Space Launch Vehicle Info
    • Spaceflight Now | Atlas Launch Report
  • Atlas II
    • Atlas II (USAF Fact Sheet)
    • Atlas IIAR
    • Atlas IIARS (NGST)
  • Atlas V 400 Series
  • Atlas/Agena
    • Atlas Agena D
  • Atlas/Centaur
• Avionics Return Vehicle miniature space shuttle, which serves to return the expensive guidance system of expendible rockets
• Black Horse
• Buran
• Centaur
  • Launch History
• Conestoga
• Cosmos Mariner
  • at a glance
  • Project Information
• Delta
  • General
    • Delta Expendable Launch Vehicles
    • "Delta explosion reminds us that launches aren't routine" (FLORIDA TODAY Space Online article)
    • Delta History Table of Contents
    • Delta Launch Vehicle News
    • History of the Delta Launch Vehicle
    • Information on next Delta launch
    • Delta II & III Launch Manifest
    • NASA ELV Delta information
    • Upcoming Launches
  • Delta II
    • 17 January 1997 Delta explosion
    • Delta II 7925 (NGST)
    • Delta II Medium Launch Vehicle (USAF site)
    • Delta II Medium-Launch Vehicle (USAF)
  • Delta III
    • Delta III Expendable Launch Vehicle (Boeing)
    • NGST Delta III (2-stage) page
    • NGST Delta III (3-stage) page
  • Delta IV - Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)
    • Delta IV - Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (Boeing)
• Delta Clipper
  • About the DC-X
  • Delta Clipper-Experimental Advanced (DC-XA)
  • Delta Clipper Experimental Archive
  • Section 4 and 8 of Clipper Graham (DC-XA) Incident Investigation Board Final Report
• DSL Advanced two-stage-to-orbit space transportation system utilizing a supersonic carrier aircraft as the first or booster stage and different possible types of air-launched upper stages.
• Energia
• Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)
  see also Delta IV section of this page for Boeing's idea
  • EELV-Heavy (NGST)
  • EELV-Medium (NGST)
  • EELV-Small (NGST)
  • Expendable Launch Vehicles
  • Lockheed Martin Astronautics page
• Future Space Transportation System (FSTS)
• GreenSpace
• H-I
  • H-I Rocket page
• H-II
  • H-2 (NGST)
  • H-2A (NGST)
  • H-II Rocket page (NASDA)
  • H-IIA Launch Vehicle (NASDA)
• High Altitude Lift Off (HALO) conceived to explore the scientific and economic potential of using high altitude balloons as launch platforms for rockets
• HL-20
  • HL-20 Bibliography
  • NASA/LaRC Vehicle Analysis Branch Information
• HL-42
• Long March
• M
• Med Lite
• N-1
  • The N1 Moon Rocket
  • Soviet N-1 Moon Rocket
• National Aerospace Plane (NASP or X-30)
• Orbit-on-Demand Vehicle (OODV)
• PA-X AeroAstro program
• Pathfinder
• Pegasus
  • Pegasus (Orbital site)
• Pogo
• Proton
  • Lockheed Martin page
  • NGST page
• ROTON Single-stage-to-orbit, reusable launch vehicle being developed by HMX, Inc.
  • The ROTON page
  • Rollout ceremony
• Saturn
  • General
    • Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (NASA SP-4206)
  • Saturn 1B
  • Saturn V
    • Ray traced Saturn V
    • The Saturn V Launch Vehicle Home Page
    • Space Educators Handbook: The Apollo Saturn V Model Page
• Scorpius
• Scout
  • NASA's Scount Launch Vehicle
  • The Scout Launch Vehicle Program
• Sea Launch
  • Boeing page
  • NGST page
• SELV
• Shuttle II
• Single State to Orbit (SSTO)
  • SSTO Bibliography
• SKYLON
• Soyuz
• SpaceCub
• Spacelauncher: Pylon Turn Wing Concept
• Space Transportation System (STS)
  • Also visit the Space Shuttle section of my Mission page for information on Shuttle missions.

  • General
    • 3-D model (CNN - Discovery Hubble - 1997)
    • Boeing: Space Shuttle Homepage
    • Space Shuttle Challenger
    • Corrosion Database
    • space shuttle PDF documents
    • Flight Definition and Requirements (PDF file) list of what Orbiter will fly on what mission and with what SRBs, ETs, etc.
    • John F. Kennedy Space Center - Space Shuttle
    • History of the Space Shuttle
    • Launch Processing System
    • Modern Marvels: Space Shuttle-Item Page (The History Channel)
    • NASA WATCH: Space Shuttle News
    • National Space Transportation System
    • "Operating the World's Most Versatile Launch System" (NASA Fact Sheet)
    • Orbiter Project Office (NASA/JSC)
    • Orbiter Reference Materials
    • Orbiter Vehicles
    • OSF Orbiters
    • pictures
    • President Nixon's 1972 Announcement on the Space Shuttle
    • NASA Space Shuttle Service Life Extension Program Summit
    • The Shuttle at Work (NASA SP-432/EP-156)
    • Shuttle Audio Frequencies
    • Shuttle Drawing System
      • site #1
      • site #2 (NASA/JSC)
      • SSPWEB
    • Shuttle Operational Data Book (SODB) (NASA/JSC)
    • Shuttle Payload Interface Control Documents
    • Shuttle Reference Manual
      • NASA Human Spaceflight
      • NSTS News Reference Manual (1988)
        • site #1
        • site #2
    • Shuttle and Payload Processing Status Reports
      • e-mail list subscription address: domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov; body of message: subscribe shuttle-status
      • FTP site
      • WWW page
    • Shuttle Team Online Join the men and women who make the Space Shuttle fly and learn about their diverse and exciting careers online
    • Space Shuttle (NASA SP-407)
    • The Space Shuttle at Work (NASA SP-432/EP-156)
    • The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (NASA SP-4221)
    • Space Shuttle Drawings and Technical Diagrams
    • Space Shuttle Launch Simulation
    • Space Shuttle Models
    • Space Shuttle of the Future
    • Space Shuttle Program Intranet (NASA/JSC only)
    • Space Shuttle Tile Company sale of space shuttle tile material
    • Space Today Online -- Space Shuttles
    • Space Transportation System (NGST)
    • "They Write the Right Stuff" story about Shuttle software development
    • Toward a History of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography
    • Viewing Shuttle Launch and Landings
      • How to see a launch
      • Launch Guide
        • Unofficial Space Shuttle Launch Guide
        • Unofficial Space Shuttle Launch Guide
      • Shuttle Launch and Landing
      • View Launches and Landings

  • Launch Schedule
    • Consolidated Launch Manifest
      • HSF
      • SEDS
    • Flight Assignment Working Group (NASA domains only)
      • Flight Assessment Working Group Planning Manifest (MS Word document) good for long term planning
    • manifest (NASA domains only)
    • GSFC Shuttle Small Payloads Project Manifested Payloads (MS Word document)
    • offical manifest (NASA domains only)
    • Shuttle Countdown Status
    • Space Shuttle Launch Assessment
    • Space Shuttle Program Launch Schedule (NASA domains only; PDF file) good for short term planning purposes
    • Shuttle and Payload Processing Status Reports
    • GSFC Shuttle Small Payloads Project Unmanifested Experiments with Form 1628 (NASA SSP only; MS Word document)
    • Unofficial Shuttle Launch Schedule
    • Upcoming Space Shuttle Launches (NASA/KSC)
  • Systems
    • Carriers
      • Mission Peculiar Experiment Support Structure
      • Payload Carriers
      • Payload Carriers Team
    • Orbiter
      • Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
    • Shuttle Remote Manipulator System
      • Shuttle Remote Manipulator System---The Canadarm
      • Shuttle RMS
    • Solid Rocket Booster (SRB)
      • Solid Rocket Booster Nose Plug robot
    • SPACEHAB
    • Spacelab
      • Spacelab Accomplishments Forum - 10-11 March 1999
    • Spacelab Pallet
    • "Risk Management for the Tiles of the Space Shuttle"
• Taurus
• Titan
  • General
    • Family History
    • NASA ELV Titan information
    • Titan
  • Titan 1
  • Titan II
    • Lockheed Martin Astronautics - Titan II Fact Sheet
    • Titan II Fact Sheet (Air Force Space Command)
    • Titan II ICBM Web Page
    • Titan II Scale Drawings (Gemini Configuration)
  • Titan 3 Specifications
  • Titan IV
    • Launch Vehicle Specifications
    • Lockheed Martin Astronautics fact sheet
    • Titan IV
    • Titan IVB/Centaur/SRMU
    • USAF Fact Sheet
• Tsyklon
• Ultralite Expendable Vehicle (UELV)
• X-15
  • The X-15 Program in Retrospect (3rd Eugen Sanger Memorial Lecture)
  • Transiting from Air to Space: The North American X-15
  • X-15 First Flight 30th Anniversary Celebration
  • X-15 Research Results (NASA SP-60)
• X-33 (VentureStar)
  • X-33 Advanced Technology Demonstrator Vehicle Program Final Environmental Impact Study
  • History homepage
  • NASA/LaRC Vehicle Analysis Branch Information
  • Untitled
  • VentureStar
• X-38
  • X-38
  • X-38 Crew Return Vehicle
• Zenit

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Last updated: 19 June 2007