rocket

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It's not rocket science -- put your best foot forward, and if you can't, explain clear as day why you can't.

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any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

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noun

any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

noun

a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

noun

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Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rocket.

noun

any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine

noun

a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

noun

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noun

propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

noun

sends a firework display high into the sky

verb

shoot up abruptly, like a rocket; "prices skyrocketed"

verb

propel with a rocket

Example sentences

It's not rocket science -- put your best foot forward, and if you can't, explain clear as day why you can't.

Many people outright laughed at Elon Musk's dream to build rocket ships.

That's because as well as the payload, each rocket stage as to also carry the fuel it needs to land.

Like being strapped onto a rocket during takeoff – in the middle of a hurricane.

Now there is the Merlin 1D [5], which claims to have the highest thrust to weight of any rocket engine every made.

"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which would power the Dragon V2 capsule, exploded during an Aug. 22 test flight.

I've heard rocket engineers describe rocket engines as turbopumps with some extra plumbing.

I suspect the rocket science equivalent of more servers vs a rewrite in C]This post has ended up being a bit longer than I thought it would.

You're never going to build a rocket to the moon by starting in your backyard with some sheet metal - your lifespan isn't long enough if you take that approach.

> "The whole mission, however, depended on the titanic Saturn V rocket, a technology that is lost to the current generation.

Years ago, when Russia was vehemently against US expanding its anti-rocket shields, I was against Russia, and supported US, because "US are the good guys, right?".

[Edit: of course instead of building a higher performance engine you could just built a much bigger rocket with the same mass fraction and have the cargo be a smaller percentage of launch mass.

And rocketry + high altitude flight remains extremely exciting and potentially more efficient than standard jetliner transport.

This rocket alone represents a dramatic disruption of the entire orbital launch industry, offering to make launch of both humans and cargo cheaper than it's ever been by an incredibly wide margin.