Launch vehicle
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- Satellite launch vehicle redirects here. For the Indian rocket, see Satellite Launch Vehicle
A launch vehicle is a rocket that is used to launch a payload into space. It usually will place this payload into orbit.
The term derives from the American term "Satellite Launching Vehicle".
In the English language, the phrase "carrier rocket" was also used, and is still used by some circles in Britain. A translation of that phrase is used in German and Russian. The US Air Force adopted the term because they thought the term "carrier rocket" sounded too navalised.
[edit] See also
</div>- List of launch vehicles
- List of spaceflights by year
- Sounding rocket
- Rocket
- Outer Space
- Rocket launch
- List of human spaceflights
- Space Exploration
