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...
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Launch vehicle (redirect from Carrier rocket)
outer space. The most common form is the ballistic missile-shaped multistage rocket, but the term is more general and also encompasses vehicles like the...
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Space vehicle (redirect from Rocket ship)
space vehicles were expendable launch systems, using a single or multistage rocket to carry a relatively small spacecraft in proportion to the total...
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founded in 2018 with the mission to build rockets just like cars. Its multistage rocket, RFA One, is currently under development. As of November 2023[update]...
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a loss of thrust due to the opposing pressure of the atmosphere. Multistage rockets are capable of attaining escape velocity from Earth and therefore...
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Huolongchushui (category Multiple rocket launchers)
huǒlóngchūshuǐ; lit. 'fire dragon out of water'') were the earliest form of multistage rockets used in post-classical China. The name of the weapon was used to strike...
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"Heads up!". NASA has used the term to describe a means of staging a multistage rocket vehicle by igniting the upper stage simultaneously with the ejection...
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amplifiers Multistage centrifugal pump Multi-stage flash distillation Multistage interconnection networks Multistage rocket Multistage sampling Multistage testing...
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Northrop Grumman Pegasus (redirect from Pegasus rocket)
Pegasus is an air-launched multistage rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) and later built and launched by Northrop Grumman. Pegasus...
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and was the first European to describe a multistage rocket in writing. Haas was a Romanian carrier rocket, which was developed[when?] by ARCA as part...
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family of rockets were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the first...
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upper stages used on rockets. bold denotes active configurations italics denotes configurations in development Multistage rocket Apogee kick motor Space...
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v {\displaystyle \Delta v} of a multistage rocket. It is clear from the above calculations that a relativistic rocket would likely need to be antimatter-fired...
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land mine, naval mine, hand cannon, exploding cannonballs, multistage rocket and rocket bombs with aerodynamic wings and explosive payloads. Differential...
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acceleration. Rocket modelers often experiment with rocket sizes, shapes, payloads, multistage rockets, and recovery methods. Some rocketeers build scale...
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in rockets which are atmosphere-bound since they have to deal with air resistance over most of their flight. It is similar in concept to multistage rockets...
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Payload fairing (redirect from Rocket fairing)
aerospace industry, a frustum is the fairing between two stages of a multistage rocket (such as the Saturn V), which is shaped like a truncated cone (in...
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Huolongjing (category Rockets and missiles)
The Huolongjing also describes and illustrates the oldest known multistage rocket; this was the "fire-dragon issuing from the water" (huo long chu shui)...
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first known multistage rocket, the 'fire-dragon issuing from the water' (huo long chu shui), thought to have been used by the Chinese navy. Rocket launchers...
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straight. The XS-1 was intended to directly replace the first stage of a multistage rocket by taking off vertically and flying to hypersonic speed and high suborbital...
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Dual-thrust rocket motors Giovanni Battista Venturi Jet engine – engines propelled by jets (including rockets) Multistage rocket NK-33 – Russian rocket engine...
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need for more high-precision armaments. The Hermes system features a multistage rocket missile with a high-powered booster. Two booster diameters are available...
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in the Japanese Wikipedia article: ja:ロケットガール. The LS-5 is a multistage expendable rocket used by the Solomon Space Association (SSA) to launch the first...
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production and properties of rockets (for military and civil purposes), including multistage rockets, batteries of rockets, and rockets with delta wing stabilizers...
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Sustainer engine (redirect from Sustainer rocket)
rocket engine which remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after booster engines have separated from the spacecraft. Multistage rocket "Rocket Staging"...
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OTRAG (redirect from Orbital Transport and Rockets, Inc.)
conventional multistage rockets. The OTRAG design used parallel stages assembled from parallel tank tubes with flat bulkheads. The rockets were designed...
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military rank Privates (video game), 2010 video game Private (rocket), American multistage rocket Private Media Group, Swedish adult entertainment production...
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A modular rocket is a kind of multistage rocket which has components that can interchanged for different missions. Several such rockets use similar concepts...
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Every planetary probe was placed into its escape trajectory by a multistage rocket, the last stage of which ends up on nearly the same trajectory as...
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Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, Thiruvananthapuram). Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launches satellites using multistage rockets such as...
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