: a rocket used to launch a satellite or spacecraft
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The launch vehicle, regarded as the world's largest and most powerful rocket, is the centerpiece of Musk's vision of sending the first humans to Mars, and is also critical in NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon's surface.—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025 But Starship is a profoundly more complex design than that partly reusable launch vehicle, in part because Musk’s ultimate ambition for Starship is to use it to colonize Mars.—PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025 Official images showed missile launch vehicles deployed in formation, firing missiles at targets at sea.—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025 The supply chains, construction methods and institutional capabilities that built the Apollo launch vehicles no longer exist.—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for launch vehicle
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