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  • Thumbnail for Sounding rocket
    A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...
    16 KB (1,882 words) - 23:12, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Meteorological instrumentation
    rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments...
    11 KB (1,324 words) - 11:25, 17 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for V-2 sounding rocket
    German V-2 rockets captured by the United States Army at the end of World War II were used as sounding rockets to carry scientific instruments into the...
    14 KB (1,611 words) - 09:51, 22 March 2024
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    high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within the vehicle; therefore a rocket can fly in the vacuum of space. Rockets work more...
    107 KB (11,393 words) - 17:31, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket engine
    A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas. Rocket...
    101 KB (11,745 words) - 16:48, 17 August 2024
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    Saturn V (redirect from Saturn V rocket)
    Saturn V Instrument Unit) Contrary to popular myth, the noise produced was not able to melt concrete. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear...
    96 KB (9,721 words) - 05:15, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bazooka
    the musical instrument invented and popularized by 1930s American comedian Bob Burns. Shortly after the first prototype launcher and rockets had been tested...
    69 KB (8,293 words) - 06:54, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Multistage rocket
    A multistage rocket or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant. A tandem...
    41 KB (5,462 words) - 05:09, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saturn V instrument unit
    The Saturn V instrument unit is a ring-shaped structure fitted to the top of the Saturn V rocket's third stage (S-IVB) and the Saturn IB's second stage...
    41 KB (5,277 words) - 13:43, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket Lab
    Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is a publicly traded aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider that operates and launches lightweight Electron orbital rockets...
    131 KB (10,556 words) - 13:14, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moon landing
    started promoting his Soyuz craft and the N1 launcher rocket that would have the capability of carrying out a human Moon landing. Khrushchev directed Korolev's...
    116 KB (10,931 words) - 14:23, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Himawari 8
    space weather events along the Japanese meridian. Liftoff of the H-IIA rocket carrying Himawari 8 on October 7, 2014 The first true-color PNG image from Himawari...
    14 KB (1,256 words) - 00:19, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oldsmobile 88
    success, inspiring a popular 1950s slogan, "Make a Date with a Rocket 88", and also a song, "Rocket 88", often considered the first rock and roll record. Starting...
    97 KB (10,514 words) - 15:56, 23 June 2024
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    Véronique sounding rocket, which became the first liquid-fuel research rocket in Western Europe and was ultimately capable of carrying a 100 kg (220 lb)...
    97 KB (11,220 words) - 23:45, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rockoon
    rockoon (from rocket and balloon) is a sounding rocket that, rather than being lit immediately while still on the ground, is first carried into the upper...
    10 KB (1,009 words) - 10:26, 9 August 2024
  • object or the entity which is being carried by an aircraft or launch vehicle. Sometimes payload also refers to the carrying capacity of an aircraft or launch...
    9 KB (1,176 words) - 12:33, 4 April 2024
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    Aggregat (redirect from A3 (rocket))
    success was the A4, more commonly known as the V2. The A1 was the first rocket design in the Aggregat series. It was designed in 1933 by Wernher von Braun...
    33 KB (4,317 words) - 19:36, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Measurement tower
    or a removed mast, which carries measuring instruments with meteorological instruments, such as thermometers and instruments to measure wind speed. Measurement...
    6 KB (348 words) - 17:25, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Titan (rocket family)
    Titan was a family of United States expendable rockets used between 1959 and 2005. The Titan I and Titan II were part of the US Air Force's intercontinental...
    30 KB (3,323 words) - 02:49, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket Lab Electron
    is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, an American aerospace company with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary...
    46 KB (4,019 words) - 00:04, 7 September 2024
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