This side force may change over time and result in control problems with the launch vehicle.

An additional $250 million would have been needed for the launch vehicle.

By now, the launch vehicle is most of the way into low Earth orbit.

The total mission cost, including launch vehicle and operations was $247.7 million.

I worry that we have not developed a new launch vehicle in over 40 years.

In the end however the testing of the launch vehicle was still on schedule.

He says we don't have a safe, reliable, economic launch vehicle.

The launch vehicle is part of the European contribution to the mission.

In the first year alone, 80 launch vehicles and 365 rockets were finished.

At the time, it was the largest launch vehicle to ever attempt a flight.

The two solid-fuel booster rockets will not be fired, however.

Like the actual booster rocket, the test segments are 12 feet in diameter.

Home runs sometimes appear to arc right toward Manhattan, and with a booster rocket they just might make it.

A design element of the booster rockets was blamed for the explosion.

The ban was applied after a booster rocket exploded on July 5.

It was later determined that seals on the booster rockets had been affected by the cold.

The company's flawed booster rocket design was blamed for the explosion.

"You don't treat people like booster rockets - take their support and than all of a sudden you're done with them," he said.

There are two such units on each booster rocket.

But those results were merely booster rockets for executive pay.

He is a Chinese scientist and an expert in carrier rocket and satellite technology.

It is planned to be launched by a commercial carrier rocket, and to reach the Moon on its own.

The launch of the satellite was planned for the end of 2009 using the Indian carrier rocket.

Development of France's first carrier rocket, the Diamant, began in 1962.

It contains fuel tanks, equipment needed to interface with a carrier rocket, and other critical systems.

The R-7 family consists of both missiles, and orbital carrier rockets.

Skynet 5B was the first of the two spacecraft to separate from the carrier rocket.

The satellite separated from the carrier rocket 30 minutes and 49 seconds later, completing a successful launch.

However, what watchers actually saw was a stage of the carrier rocket.

In 1963, the complex was converted for use by carrier rockets.