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    A model rocket is a small rocket designed to reach low altitudes (e.g., 100–500 m (330–1,640 ft) for a 30 g (1.1 oz) model) and be recovered by a variety...
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  • Motors for model rockets and high-powered rockets (together, consumer rockets) are classified by total impulse into a set of letter-designated ranges,...
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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...
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    A water rocket is a type of model rocket using water as its reaction mass. The water is forced out by a pressurized gas, typically compressed air. Like...
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    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...
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  • Rocket candy, or R-Candy, is a type of rocket propellant for model rockets made with a form of sugar as a fuel, and containing an oxidizer. The propellant...
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  • Rocket Lake is Intel's codename for its 11th generation Core microprocessors. Released on March 30, 2021, it is based on the new Cypress Cove microarchitecture...
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    This is a list of U.S. Army rocket launchers by model number. Launchers can be either tube-type or rail-type. M1 rocket launcher, 2.36 inch, solid tube...
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  • List of artillery § Rockets List of rocket aircraft Lists of weapons Model rocket NATO reporting name (has lists of various Soviet missiles) This article...
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    framework Metamodeling Model aircraft Model car Model house Model railway Model rocket Scale model Scientific model Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University...
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  • artillery 1st Rocketeer Corps of Poland, who operated the Congreve rocket A person who rides rockets, an astronaut A person who operates model rockets A person...
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    A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements...
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    Astrocam (category Model rockets)
    B6-4 and C6-7 model rocket motors (see Model rocket motor classification). The Astrocam was available as kit, or as ready-to-fly model. Both versions...
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  • Rocket Internet SE is a German Internet company headquartered in Berlin. The company builds startups and owns shareholdings in various models of internet...
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  • MITS in December 1969 to produce miniaturized telemetry modules for model rockets such as a roll rate sensor. In 1971, Roberts redirected the company...
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  • A black powder rocket motor propels a model rocket using black powder. Black powder rocket propellants consist of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate...
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  • pyrotechnics, to build him a rocket. By 1954, Orville had developed his first rocket, the Rock-A-Chute Mark I. This model had an airframe of paper with...
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    name of a model rocket with built-in digital camera, manufactured by Estes Industries, for aerial photography. In contrast to the camera rocket Astrocam...
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    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...
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    The nitrous oxide in chargers is also used as an oxidizer in hybrid model rocket engines. Nitrous oxide is a popular recreational drug, and whipped cream...
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    model rocketry since high school and brought a supply of rockets to Vietnam. He used a nearby horse racing track as a launch site to test his rocket guidance...
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    National Association of Rocketry (category Model rocketry)
    certification of consumer rocket motors and for the certification of high-power rocket fliers in the U.S. The NAR is the author of a Model Rocket Safety Code for...
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    original model was released in 2004. This model trim is no longer available. The Rocket III Roadster is now the only version available. This model was awarded...
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    NFPA1122 standard dictates guidelines for model rocketry, while NFPA1127 is specific to high-power rockets. In most U.S. states NFPA1122 has been adopted...
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  • Estes Industries (category Rocket engine manufacturers of the United States)
    Estes Industries is a model rocket company that was started in Denver, Colorado, USA. Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes in 1958; in 1961, the...
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  • contained in a 1990 version if the JATO Rocket Car urban legend[citation needed] posted to the rec.models.rockets Usenet newsgroup. When this urban legend...
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    single-use model rocket engines to provide a short, under 10 second burst of power. Government restrictions in some countries made rocket-propulsion rare...
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    Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester...
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    Skyrocket (redirect from Bottle rocket)
    Skyrocket at explosion Water rocket, a model rocket propelled by water and compressed air, sometimes referred to as a "bottle rocket" as they are often constructed...
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  • The same function is served when shooting slugs. Wadding is used in model rockets to protect the parachute when it ejects. Without the recovery wadding...
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