: a rocket used to launch a satellite or spacecraft
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These factors include temperature, wind, cloud cover and the overall health of the launch vehicle.—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 But military experts said Iran may have used its space launch vehicle for an improvised firing.—Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026 California based Rocket Lab Corporation has received a $190 million contract for a block buy of 20 hypersonic test flights with its HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) launch vehicle.—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026 Quite a contrast to launch vehicles, where 90 percent of the mass is propellant, right?—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for launch vehicle