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EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 730755 Last modified 08.07.2005
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Domain spacecraft & rocketsEuropean Space Agency, ESA
  • any vehicle designed to carry payloads into space
kanderakett
launcher
Usage examples
  • ESA activities will focus on securing a guaranteed and competitive access to space through a family of launchers, pursuing excellence in science of space, from space and in space, exploiting its know-how in exploration of the solar system, and developing technologies to maintain a globally competitive European space industry equipped to meet Europe's future space system needs, including in all elements of the value chain.

Kosmoseteaduse ja -tehnoloogia terminibaas

ID 576043 Last modified 18.12.2025
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Domain spacecraft & rockets
kanderakett
launcher
launch vehicle
space launch vehicle
SLV
  • maapinnalt teatud lasti kosmosesse toimetav rakett
  • rocket used to carry passengers or cargo from Earth's surface into outer space
Related
kanderakett
Usage examples
  • Uuel ja võimsamal kanderaketil Ariane 5 on peal kaks suurt tahkekütus-stardikiirendit.
kandurrakett
Usage examples
  • Algul kavandati kandurraketti N1 40–50 tonnile ja taheti orbiidil ühendada 2–3 stardiga üles saadetavad koormad.
launcher
Usage examples
  • When an Ariane launcher heads into space more than 12 000 Europeans, working in more than 100 European companies, can be proud of having contributed to such an impressive event.
launch vehicle
Usage examples
  • A launch vehicle provides the velocity needed by a spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity and set it on its course for Mars.
space launch vehicle
Usage examples
  • The subscribing states... Resolve to respect the following Principles... (g) Recognition that Space Launch Vehicle programmes should not be used to conceal Ballistic Missile programmes.
SLV abbreviation

Militerm | riigikaitseterminite andmebaas

ID 526793 Last modified 10.11.2023
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Domain Weapons and Weapon Systems -> Missiles and Rockets
stardiseade preferred
laskeseade admitted
raketilaskeseadeldis deprecated
raketiseade deprecated
raketistardiseade deprecated
raketiheitja deprecated
käivitusseade deprecated
launcher preferred
launching device admitted
thrower admitted
rampe de lancement preferred
  • seade raketi toetamiseks ja väljatulistamise ajal õiges asendis hoidmiseks
  • a structural device designed to support and hold a missile in position for firing
stardiseade preferred
laskeseade admitted
raketilaskeseadeldis deprecated
raketiseade deprecated
raketistardiseade deprecated
raketiheitja deprecated
käivitusseade deprecated
launcher preferred
launching device admitted
thrower admitted
rampe de lancement preferred

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