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rocket
rocket any vehicle propelled by ejection of the gases produced by combustion of self-contained propellants. Rockets are used in fireworks, as military weapons, and in scientific applications such as space exploration. Rocket Propulsion The force acting on a rocket, called its thrust, is e... Read more
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard 1882-1945, American physicist and rocket expert, b. Worcester, Mass., grad. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 1908), Ph.D. Clark Univ., 1911. From 1914 he was associated with Clark Univ., becoming a professor of physics in 1919. Goddard designed and built early high al... Read more
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky , 1857-1935, Russian inventor and rocket expert. He lost his hearing in childhood, and, as he could not attend the usual schools, he educated himself. His most important work was concerned with the possibility of rocket flight into outer space. Tsiolkovsky's The I... Read more
Hermann Julius Oberth
Hermann Julius Oberth 1894-1989, Austro-German astronautical pioneer, b. Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary (now Sibiu, Romania). Beginning his studies in astronautics before World War I, he first proposed a liquid-propellant rocket in 1917 and in 1923 published his unsuccessful Ph.D. dissertation, T... Read more
bazooka
bazooka in warfare, portable, lightweight metal tube from which rockets are launched, usually operated by two men. It is used by infantry as an antitank weapon and also for attacking pillboxes and bunkers. In general, the bazooka is a short-range weapon with low accuracy; however, it gives the indi... Read more
space shuttle
space shuttle Re-usable rocket-powered US spacecraft. The main part of the shuttle, the orbiter (of which four have been built, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis), looks like a bulky jet aircraft with swept-back wings. It ferries people and equipment between the ground and Earth orbit. ... Read more
Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal U.S. rocket research and development center, 38,781 acres (15,694 hectares), N Ala., W of Huntsville; est. 1941. One of the state's largest industrial enterprises, it includes the Army Missile Command, responsible for the army's rocket and guided missile program; the Army Missile a... Read more
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun , 1912-77, German-American rocket expert, b. Germany, grad. Berlin Technological Institute (B.S., 1932), Univ. of Berlin (Ph.D., 1934). Devoted to the pursuit of rocketry and spaceflight since his teenage years, von Braun assisted Hermann Oberth after 1930 in early experiments in... Read more
Elton Hercules John
Elton Hercules John 1947-, English popular singer, pianist, and composer, b. Reginald Kenneth Dwight. By the mid-1970s he had become famous presenting his own and other composers' songs in spectacularly staged productions. His songs include "Benny and the Jets," "Rocket Man," and "Candle ... Read more
mesosphere
mesosphere The middle layer of Earth's atmosphere, lying above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere, at altitudes of 50–85 km. Temperatures in the mesosphere fall with increasing altitude, reaching a minimum at the mesopause. Measurements from sounding rockets indicate the mesos... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "rocket"

Rockets and Missiles
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science Rockets and missiles The term rocket is used in two different...military services. How rockets work The operation of a rocket is based on Newton's...inside the body of the rocket. In other types of rockets, the expelled fluid may...
rocket
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition rocket any vehicle propelled...contained propellants. Rockets are used in fireworks...space exploration. Rocket Propulsion The force...Rockets Although early rockets had only one stage...that no single-stage rocket can reach orbital velocity...
rocket weapons
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...device holding sixteen rockets and capable of being...light truck. The same rocket/warhead combination...solid-fuel air defence rockets were also developed in...the war ended, but a rocket-propelled fighter did...to heavy bombardment rockets, familiarly known as...
Missiles and Rockets
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Missiles and Rockets. In 1814, as the British...Scott Key observed their rocket barrages; his poem describing...phrase, “rockets’ red glare...NASA) , which developed rockets to lift astronauts on...research enhanced military rocket boosters for warheads...
V1, V2 rockets
Book article from: World Encyclopedia V1, V2 rockets (abbreviation for Vergeltungswaffen, vengeance weapons) V-1s, popularly known as doodlebugs , flying bombs , or buzz bombs...
Rocket to the Moon
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Rocket to the Moon (1938), a play by Clifford Odets . [ Belasco Theatre , 131 perf.] Ben Stark ( Morris Carnovsky ) is a young dentist...
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...solid-propellant rockets as weapons. There...Parker worked on a rocket with a single charge...motor. Parker's rocket proved to be successful...However, both rockets were demonstrated...ionic propulsion for rockets. Goddard's first liquid-propellant rocket was launched in 1926...
Wernher von Braun
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...rocket field. German Army Rocket Program Adolf Hitler manipulated...The treaty did not envision rockets and made no mention of them...military planners hoped to develop rockets as weapons. German army ordnance...began frequent visits to the rocket field and monitored the rocket...
Jet Engine
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...from the back of the rocket provides the propulsive...engine forward. Chemical rockets make use of either liquid fuels, such as the rocket described above, or...from the rear of the rocket, providing its forward...Various kinds of electrical rockets have been designed...
Von Braun, Wernher
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...treaty made no mention of rockets, and German military planners hoped to develop rockets as weapons. They immediately...began, Germany gave rocket development highest priority...scientists, 100 V-2 rockets, and the rocket technical data to the...

Dictionary entries related to "rocket"

Rockets
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...first liquid-fueled rocket (burning gasoline...Goddard produced rockets notable more for...expertise to its nascent rocket-building program...and scores of V-2 rockets — then...used by American rockets for the rest of the...lightweight aluminum rocket bodies that doubled...
rocket
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...fuel. ∎  an elongated rocket-propelled missile or spacecraft...force: she shot out of her chair like a rocket. • v. ( rock·et...semifinals last year. 2. [ tr. ] attack with rocket-propelled missiles: the city was rocketed...
rocket propulsion
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military rocket propulsion reaction propulsion wherein both the fuel and the oxidizer...the hot gases expended through a nozzle, are carried as part of the rocket engine. Rocket propulsion differs from jet propulsion in that jet propulsion utilizes...
rocket and missile artillery
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military rocket and missile artillery long-range artillery fired from rocket-launchers and equipped with warheads. Missile artillery usually refers to guided missiles; rocket artillery refers to unguided artillery that depends...
rocket platoon
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military rocket platoon a small military unit assigned to man a rocket-firing weapons system.
rocket, antiarmor
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military rocket, antiarmor a hand-held, vehicle-mounted, or aircraft rocket designed to damage or destroy enemy armored vehicles.
submarine rocket
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military submarine rocket SUBROC a submarine-launched, surface-to-surface rocket with nuclear depth charge or homing torpedo payload that is primarily an antisubmarine weapon.
free rocket
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military free rocket a rocket not subject to guidance or control in flight.
Woomera rocket range
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Woomera rocket range A weapons-testing zone including areas of South and Western Australia, established in 1946. It includes the sites of...
antisubmarine rocket
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military antisubmarine rocket ASROC a nuclear depth charge or homing torpedo that is launched from a surface ship.

Thesaurus entries related to "rocket"

rocket
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus rocket • noun   1. guerrillas fired rockets at them synonyms : missile, projectile.   2. they lit some colorful rockets synonyms : firework, firecracker, Roman candle. • verb   1. prices have rocketed...
leap
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...hurtle.   5. prices have leapt synonyms : increase rapidly, soar, rocket, skyrocket, shoot up, escalate, mount.   6. leap to stardom synonyms : rocket, skyrocket, advance/mount/ascend rapidly, climb the ladder. phrases...
spiral
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English spiral • verb   1. smoke spiraling from the chimney synonyms : coil, wind, twist, swirl, wreathe.   2. prices spiraling synonyms : soar, rocket, rise, go up, mount, increase.
proliferate
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English proliferate • verb  the number of houses in the area has proliferated beyond belief synonyms : increase, grow rapidly, multiply, extend, expand, burgeon, accelerate, escalate, rocket, snowball, mushroom. antonyms: decrease; dwindle.
flare
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...burst, flash, flicker, glimmer, shimmer, dazzle, glare, gleam.   2. flares for ships synonyms : signal, distress signal, rocket, light.   3. a skirt with a flare synonyms : gradual widening, outward spread.
blast
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...berate, castigate, reprove, rail at, flay.   7. guns blasting synonyms : shoot, fire, blaze away, discharge. phrase: blast off   the rocket blasted off successfully synonyms : be launched, take off, lift off.
beacon
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English beacon • noun   synonyms : signal fire/light, bonfire, smoke signal, flare, beam, rocket, signal, danger signal; lighthouse, watchtower.
rise
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...soar, rise up, rear (up).   3. prices rose synonyms : go up, increase, soar, shoot up, surge, leap, jump, rocket, escalate, spiral. antonym: drop.   4. living standards have risen synonyms : improve, get better, advance...
mushroom
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...verb  ecotourism mushroomed in the 1980s synonyms : proliferate, grow/develop rapidly, burgeon, spread, increase, expand, boom, explode, snowball, rocket, skyrocket; thrive, flourish, prosper. antonym: contract.
intellectual
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...highbrow, learned person, academic, bookworm, man/woman of letters, bluestocking; thinker, brain, scholar, genius, Einstein, polymath, mastermind; informal egghead, brains, brainiac, rocket scientist. antonym: dunce.

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Rocket Mobile Announces Immediate Availability of Applications for QUALCOMM's BREW Platform for Verizon Wireless Launch; Rocket Mobile, Inc. Launches Suite of Productivity Applications for Mobile Phone Users.
PR Newswire; 3/18/2002; 700+ words ; ...ORLANDO, Fla., CTIA Wireless 2002 -- Rocket Mobile(TM), a leading provider of...standard platform for wireless devices. Rocket Mobile's productivity suite of applications...released shortly following the launch. "Rocket Mobile's applications are available...
Rocket club members gain education for future jobs
Newspaper article from: Gurnee Review (IL); 5/4/2000; ; 534 words ; ...are a part of the rocket launch club this year, building rockets from kits and launching...use kits to build rockets, deciding upon their own designs for the rocket's fins and the...said. Some of the rockets landed on the school roof. Another rocket caught on fire...
'Rockets' reported fired at two jetliners.(BUSINESS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/21/2002; 700+ words ; ...doubted it was a model rocket. "It did not look like any model rocket I've ever seen...to play with model rockets when he was a child...near misses but not rockets," Mr. Sullivan...similar report of a rocket fired at a commercial...
Rocket Software OSS Suite Approved for Interoperability with Nortel Networks CDMA2000 1x Wireless Infrastructure.
Business Wire; 2/4/2004; 700+ words ; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2004 Rocket Software OSS Unit, a global provider...Management Solutions, today announced that its Rocket OSS Suite has achieved interoperability...IOT) program demonstrates that the Rocket OSS suite will work successfully with...
Rocket Mobile Launches Suite of Mobile Applications with Verizon Wireless; Rocket Mobile, Inc. Supports Verizon Wireless' Nationwide Launch of Downloadable Applications.
PR Newswire; 7/3/2002; 700+ words ; ...N.J. and LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Rocket Mobile(TM), Inc., a leading developer...prnh/20000822/VERILOGO-b ) The Rocket Mobile applications include MobileExpense...downloadable applications. Starting this week, Rocket Mobile will have several applications...
Rocket Software Inc. to Acquire NetManage, Inc.
Business Wire; 12/12/2007; 700+ words ; CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Rocket Software, Inc. (www.rs.com), a privately held corporation ("Rocket"), and NetManage, Inc. (Nasdaq...have signed, a definitive agreement for Rocket to acquire NetManage in a merger transaction...
Rocket Software, Inc. and Rocket Acquisition Sub, Inc. Announce Reduction of Minimum Condition and Extension of Tender Offer For TCSI Shares.
Business Wire; 12/19/2002; 700+ words ; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2002 Rocket Acquisition Sub, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rocket Software, Inc. today announced that...outstanding shares on a fully diluted basis. Rocket Acquisition Sub, Inc. also announced...
Johnny Rockets to Increase Number of Units by 70 Percent; All-American Retro Restaurant Inks Major Franchise Development Deals.
Business Wire; 5/9/2005; 700+ words ; ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -- Johnny Rockets, recently ranked as one of the top 50...in the addition of over 125 new Johnny Rockets restaurants to the chain -- a 70 percent...its franchisees to open 23 new Johnny Rockets restaurants. These agreements provide...
Rocket revolution: multiple rocket launchers were originally designed to saturate area targets. The introduction of new lightweight launchers and precision-guided munitions is making them a weapon of choice for asymmetric warfare.(Guided munitions)
Magazine article from: Armada International; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...The Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) is...full load of twelve rockets in less than a minute. Each M26 rocket is tipped with a 156...bombardment by 1800 rockets and two battalions...and other multiple rocket launchers (MRL...
Rocket Racing League(R) Completes Successful Flight Test Campaign at Oklahoma Spaceport.
PR Newswire; 9/4/2008; 700+ words ; Rocket Racer Flies Record Seven Times in Four Days NEW YORK, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rocket Racing League today announced the successful...seven test flights of the Bridenstine DKNY Rocket Racer(R) conducted at the Oklahoma Spaceport...