Satellite Launching Vehicles

Lauching Vehicles In spaceflight, a launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket used to

carry a payload from Earth's surface into outer space. A launch system includes the launch vehicle, the launch pad, and other infrastructure.

Although a carrier rocket's payload is often an artificial satellite placed into orbit, some spaceflights, such as sounding rockets, are sub-orbital, while others enable spacecraft to escape Earth orbit entirely.

Earth orbital launch vehicles typically have at least two stages, and sometimes as many as four or more.

American Launchers Saturn Launchers:The Saturn family of American rocket boosters was developed

by a team of mostly German rocket scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. Originally proposed as a military satellite launcher, they were adopted as the launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program. Three versions were built and flown:Saturn I,Saturn IB,and Saturn V.

Features of Saturn V

Height : 363.0 ft (110.6 m)

Diameter : 33.0 ft (10.1 m)

Mass: 2,970,000 kg

Stages : 3

Capacity : 140,000 kg

Most importantly It was used in first successful landing of man on moon.

Images of Saturn V

Space ShttleThe Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.

Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development.

The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Shuttle systems were built and used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST); conducted science experiments in orbit; and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station.

The Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1322 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds.

Space shuttle Height :56.1 m (184.2 ft)

Diameter:8.7 m (28.5 ft)

Mass:2,030 ton

Stages : 2

Capacity

Payload to LEO: 27,500 kg

Payload to ISS: 16,050 kg

Payload to GTO: 3,810 kg

Payload to Polar orbit: 12,700 kg

Payload to Earth return: 14,400 kg

Important Launching Vehicles in US TITAN LAUNCHERS

DELTA LAUCHERS

EUROPEAN LAUNCHING VEHICLES Ariane 5 is a European heavy lift launch vehicle that is part of the Ariane rocket

family, an expendable launch system used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) or low Earth orbit (LEO).

Ariane 5 rockets are manufactured under the authority of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. Airbus Defence and Space is the prime contractor for the vehicles, leading a consortium of sub-contractors.

Ariane 5 is operated and marketed by Arianespace as part of the Ariane programme. Airbus Defence and Space builds the rockets in Europe and Arianespace launches them from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

Height: 46–52 m (151–171 ft) &Diameter: 5.4 m (18 ft)

Mass: 777,000 kg

Stages: 2

ARIANE 4 & ARIANE 5 ARE OYHER LAUCHERS IN THIS FAMILY

VEGA LAUNCHER

It is designed to launch small payloads — 300 to 2,500 kg satellites for scientific and Earth observation missions to polar and low Earth orbits.[9] The reference Vega mission is a polar orbit bringing a spacecraft of 1,500 kilograms to an altitude of 700 kilometers.

Height: 30 m (98 ft)

Diameter:3 m (9.8 ft)

Mass:137,000 kg (302,000 lb)

INDIAN SATELLITE LAUNCHERS PSLV

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, commonly known by its abbreviation PSLV, is an expendable launch system developed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites into Sun-synchronous orbits, a service that was, until the advent of the PSLV, commercially available only from Russia. PSLV can also launch small size satellites into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).

In 2015 India successfully launched 17 foreign satellites belonging to Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some notable payloads launched by PSLV include India's first lunar probe Chandrayaan-1, India's first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan (Mars orbiter) and India's first space observatory, Astrosat.

PSLVSizeHeight 44 metres (144 ft)Diameter 2.8 metres (9 ft 2 in)Mass PSLV-G: 295,000 kg PSLV-CA: 230,000 kg PSLV-XL: 320,000 kg Stages 4CapacityPayload to LEO(620 km) 3,800 kgPayload to SSO(620 km) 1,750 kg Payload to Sub-GTO/GTO 1,425 kg

GSLV Geosynchronous Satellite Launch

Vehicle , abbreviated in English as GSLV, is an expendable launch system operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Height:49.13 metres (161.2 ft)

Diameter:2.8 metres (9 ft 2 in)

Mass 414,750 kilograms

Stages 3

Payload to LEO 5,000 kilograms

Payload to GTO 2,500 kilograms

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