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means A rocket built specifically to carry a payload—satellite, spacecraft, or cargo—from the ground into space or orbit.

from 'Launch' traces back through Old French 'lanchier' to Latin 'lanceare', meaning to wield or throw a lance — the same root that gives us 'lance' itself. The sense shifted from hurling spears to setting ships and later rockets into motion, the violent thrust of the original word surviving intact. 'Vehicle' comes from Latin 'vehiculum', a means of carrying, rooted in 'vehere', to carry or convey. Pair them and you get the literal truth of the thing: something thrown, built to carry.