This dimension names the larger vehicle family that a specific launch vehicle variant belongs to. Wikipedia notes that launch vehicles are "classified by their orbital payload capacity, ranging from small-, medium-, heavy- to super-heavy lift," and a single family often spans several of these classes as it evolves. Browsing this way groups every variant of the same vehicle family together.
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1. Wikipedia: Explorer 1
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Explorer 1 was launched on 1 February 1958 at 03:47:56 GMT (or 31 January 1958 at 22:47:56 Eastern Time) atop the first Juno I booster from LC-26A at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center of the Atlantic Missile Range (AMR), in Florida.
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