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Recent Examples on the Web Instead, the spacecraft and launch vehicle were rolled back into the hulking, nearby Vertical Integration Facility for inspection. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2021 The Vulcan Centaur is a two-stage-to-orbit, heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by ULA since 2014 with an initial flight expected in 2022. — Tribune News Service, al, 15 Aug. 2021 Virgin Galactic, a suborbital tourism company, earned $238,000; Spire, another satellite imaging firm, earned $29 million; and Rocket Lab, the launch vehicle maker, earned about $35 million. — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 15 July 2021 That's more than twice the total thrust output of NASA's Saturn V rocket, which powered the mid-20th century moon landings, and for decades has held the record for the most powerful launch vehicle ever flown. — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 15 June 2021 The funds came from a $28 million donation to Blue Origin in an auction for a seat on its New Shepard, the company’s reusable space launch vehicle. — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 14 July 2021 For the moment, popular attention appears to be focused on the billionaires’ launches; Bezos is scheduled to take a suborbital flight via the New Shepard launch vehicle of his Blue Origin spaceflight company July 20. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021 In January 2019 and July 2017, the Iranian Space Agency launched a two-stage space launch vehicle, but both launches failed to put a satellite into orbit. — Zachary Cohen And Oren Liebermann, CNN, 22 June 2021 At a conference last week, Wu Yansheng, a senior official with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said China will develop its first launch vehicle capable of vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) by 2025. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2020

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