Rocket in a sentence

Hybrid rocket motor detail of SpaceShipOne A hybrid rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor which uses rocket propellants in two different phases.

A rocket and its payload together are generally referred to as a missile when the weapon has a guidance system (not all missiles use rocket engines, some use other engines such as jets ) or as a rocket if it is unguided.

In 1961 a 45rpm single record was released entitled "Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket" (aka "Uncle Scrooge's Rocket to the Moon"), a story of how Scrooge builds a rocket to send all his money to the moon to protect it from the "Beagle Boys".

Integral rocket ramjet/ducted rocket main A slight variation on the ramjet uses the supersonic exhaust from a rocket combustion process to compress and react with the incoming air in the main combustion chamber.

Rocket mine: a Russian invention, the rocket mine is a bottom distance mine that fires a homing high-speed rocket (not torpedo) upwards towards the target.

A Falcon 9 rocket thundered off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral before dawn Thursday with 56 Starlink internet satellites, setting a record for the heaviest cargo ever flown on a SpaceX rocket at more than 38,000 pounds.

In the clip, he Fuse entangles a rocket Zonai device, then uses Fuse normally to physically attach the rocket to his weapon.

In this time-lapse video, the Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon atop rolls to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center for the first time on January 3. The rocket was then lifted vertical for a series of fit checks and tests.

Seven small satellites rode a Rocket Lab Electron rocket into orbit Saturday from New Zealand.

With the game's rocket fuel continuing its burn, we thought we'd revisit this list of the current best Rocket League cars.

As with all space technology, reducing weight means reducing the amount of expensive and greenhouse gas-producing fuel it takes to launch a rocket or increasing the number of devices carried by the same rocket to space.

Beck emphasized the company’s growing $1.05 billion backlog for their small Electron rocket and confirmed the larger Neutron rocket remains on schedule for its debut launch next year.

Blue Origin’s first orbital class rocket, New Glenn, is the second launch vehicle developed by the company, following New Shepard, its suborbital rocket used for short tourism flights and research opportunities.

Japan's most influential TV channel, public broadcast NHK expressing rocket as "missile" domestically despite using expressions such as "rocket" "satellite" toward overseas.

The clamps designed to hold the rocket in place during the engine test had catastrophically failed, causing the rocket’s powerful thrust to send the vehicle skyward.

The question on Texas model rocket enthusiasts' minds is whether Senator Ted Cruz will attempt to outlaw the sale of the model rocket.

The Simorgh, or “Phoenix,” rocket failures have been part of a series of setbacks in recent years for Iran's civilian space program, including fatal fires and a launchpad rocket explosion that drew the attention of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

This was not a rocket launch, just a routine test for a rocket owned by ABL Space Systems.

United Launch Alliance is depending on the Vulcan Centaur rocket to fill the gap that will be left by the impending retirement of its Atlas V rocket.

Chompski will not be alone during his space trip planned for December 16. The Rocket Lab rocket will carry no fewer than 29 satellites to monitor maritime traffic.