A small-lift launch vehicle is an orbital rocket capable of lifting 2,000 kilograms or less by the NASA classification, or under 5,000 kilograms by the Roscosmos classification, of payload into low Earth orbit. The cited article says small launch vehicles can meet the requirements of some spacecraft and can be less expensive than a larger launch vehicle would be, and that the next larger category is medium-lift launch vehicles. In the atlas it names the class of vehicles built to place small satellites into orbit. Launch vehicles of this class are grouped under this concept.
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Small-Lift Launch Vehicle
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A small-lift launch vehicle is a rocket orbital launch vehicle that is capable of lifting 2,000 kilograms (4,400 lb) or less (by NASA classification) or under 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lb) (by Roscosmos classification) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO).
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A small-lift launch vehicle is a rocket orbital launch vehicle that is capable of lifting 2,000 kilograms (4,400 lb) or less (by NASA classification) or under 5,000 kilograms (11,000 lb) (by Roscosmos classification) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO).
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The Kuaizhou 1A is a small-lift orbital launch vehicle developed by ExPace
Pegasus (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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Pegasus was an air-launched, small-lift launch vehicle developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and later built and launched by Northrop Grumman.
Minotaur (rocket family) (Wikipedia)
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The Minotaur family consists of four primary variants: the Minotaur I, used for launching small satellites into low Earth orbit; the Minotaur II, used primarily as a suborbital target vehicle; the Minotaur IV, a small-lift orbital launch vehicle; and the Minotaur V and Minotaur VI, capable of higher-energy missions including geostationary transfer orbit and trans-lunar trajectories.
Vega (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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Vega (Italian: Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata, French: Vecteur européen de génération avancée, lit. 'Vector European Generation Advanced') was a European expendable small-lift launch vehicle developed by Avio and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
Long March 1 (Wikipedia)
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Small-lift launch vehicle
Long March 6 (Wikipedia)
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Small-lift launch vehicle
Long March 11 (Wikipedia)
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Small-lift launch vehicle
Shavit (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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Shavit 2 (Hebrew: "comet", שביט) is a small lift launch vehicle produced by Israel from 1982 onwards, to launch satellites into low Earth orbit.
Wikipedia: Scout (rocket family)
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The Scout family of rockets were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth.
LauncherOne (Wikipedia)
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It was an air-launched rocket, designed to carry smallsat payloads of up to 300 kg (660 lb) into Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), following air launch from a carrier aircraft at high altitude.
Epsilon (rocket) (Wikipedia)
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It is capable of placing a 590 kg payload into Sun-synchronous orbit.
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