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  • Thumbnail for Mobile Rocket Base
    The Mobile Rocket Base (German: Mobile Raketenbasis), abbreviated MORABA, is a department of the DLR Space Operations and Astronaut Training in Oberpfaffenhofen...
    57 KB (1,777 words) - 13:56, 27 February 2023
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    rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. 'bobbin/spool') is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket...
    107 KB (11,386 words) - 20:33, 31 May 2024
  • The RBCC, or rocket-based combined cycle propulsion system, was one of the two types of propulsion systems that may have been tested in the Boeing X-43...
    3 KB (283 words) - 00:45, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket (weapon)
    In military terminology, a rocket is a self-propelled, unguided or guided, weapon-system powered by a rocket engine. Though used primarily as medium-...
    7 KB (830 words) - 14:14, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for People's Liberation Army Rocket Force
    The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, formerly the Second Artillery Corps, is the strategic and tactical missile force of the People's Republic of...
    66 KB (5,525 words) - 20:30, 21 July 2024
  • 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 (1,858 words) - 20:16, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nike (rocket stage)
    The Nike stage or Nike booster, a solid fuel rocket motor, was created by Hercules Aerospace for the Nike Ajax (M5) Nike Hercules (M5E1) (and M88 late...
    7 KB (705 words) - 18:27, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edwards Air Force Base
    Force Base, X-15 Engine Test Complex", 5 photos, 17 data pages, 1 photo caption page HAER No. CA-236, "Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion...
    77 KB (8,819 words) - 16:57, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket League
    Rocket League is a vehicular soccer video game developed and published by Psyonix. The game was first released for PlayStation 4 and Windows in July 2015...
    157 KB (13,712 words) - 03:10, 5 August 2024
  • "McKinley Rocket Base", Seven gains access to the gantry and climbs onto an access arm to begin rewiring some circuits of the soon-to-launch rocket. When...
    13 KB (1,406 words) - 02:32, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Qassam rocket
    The Qassam rocket (Arabic: صاروخ القسام Ṣārūkh al-Qassām; also Kassam) is a simple, steel artillery rocket developed and deployed by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam...
    27 KB (2,504 words) - 03:12, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket sled
    A rocket sled is a test platform that slides along a track (e.g. set of rails), propelled by rockets. A rocket sled differs from a rocket car in not using...
    18 KB (901 words) - 18:18, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solid-propellant rocket
    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
    44 KB (5,406 words) - 03:33, 17 July 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) - 16:04, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket
    The Mk 4 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket (FFAR), also known as "Mighty Mouse", is an unguided rocket used by United States military aircraft. It was 2.75 inches...
    16 KB (1,397 words) - 06:45, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jack Parsons
    Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Associated with the California...
    121 KB (15,698 words) - 01:36, 1 August 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 (10,553 words) - 19:59, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for V-2 rocket
    long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance...
    98 KB (11,319 words) - 20:39, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket propellant
    Rocket propellant is the reaction mass of a rocket. This reaction mass is ejected at the highest achievable velocity from a rocket engine to produce thrust...
    29 KB (3,883 words) - 23:36, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for M142 HIMARS
    Launch Rocket System rockets or one ATACMS missile. It is based on the U.S. Army's FMTV five-ton truck, and is capable of launching all rockets in the...
    98 KB (8,514 words) - 00:44, 4 August 2024
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