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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Russian Launchers - Soyuz, Progress and Uncrewed => Topic started by: lucspace on 03/03/2014 09:07 am

Title: MOVEN launch vehicle
Post by: lucspace on 03/03/2014 09:07 am

Does anyone have more infor on the MOVEN launch vehicle mentioned here? http://rbth.co.uk/science_and_tech/2014/01/16/buran_what_happened_to_soviet_space_shuttle_33301.html

Title: Re: MOVEN launch vehicle
Post by: Danderman on 03/03/2014 03:46 pm

MOVEN is an acronym in Russian for:

многоразовый одноступенчатый всеазимутальный экологичный носитель

which is merely a description of a proposed launch vehicle: "multi-use, one-stage, all-azimuth environmentally friendly launch vehicle".