Rocket
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A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellants carried within the rocket before use.
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See also
Lists
- Chronology of Pakistan's rocket tests
- List of rockets
- Timeline of rocket and missile technology
- Timeline of spaceflight
General rocketry
- Aircraft
- Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant—Most common solid rocket fuel
- Astrodynamics the study of spaceflight trajectories
- Bipropellant rocket—two-part liquid or gaseous fuelled rocket
- Hot Water rocket—powered by boiling water
- Hybrid rocket—solid rocket burnt by second fluid propellant
- Gantry
- Pendulum rocket fallacy—an instability of rockets
- Pulsed Rocket Motors—solid rocket that burns in segments
- Rocket engine
- Rocket engine nozzles—De Laval nozzles
- Rocket fuel
- Rocket launch
- Rocket launch site
- Rocket propellant
- Rocket garden a place for viewing unlaunched rockets
- Solid rocket
- Sounding rocket
- Space Shuttle program
- Spacecraft
- Spacecraft propulsion—describes many different propulsion systems for spacecraft
- Spaceflight
- Tripropellant rocket—variable propellant mixes can improve performance
- Tsiolkovsky rocket equation—equation describing rocket performance
- Variable-mass system—the form of Newton's second law used for describing rocket motion
Recreational rocketry
- Balloon rocket
- High-powered rocket
- Model rocket—small hobby rocket
- National Association of Rocketry
- Tripoli Rocketry Association
- Water rocket—toy rocket launched for recreational purposes using water as propellant
Recreational pyrotechnic rocketry
- Bottle rocket—small firework type rocket often launched from bottles
- Skyrocket—fireworks that typically explode at apogee
Weaponry
- Air-to-ground rockets
- Fire Arrow—one of the earliest types of rocket
- Katyusha rocket launcher—rack mounted rocket
- Rocket-propelled grenade—military use of rockets
- Shin Ki Chon—Korean variation of the Chinese fire arrow
- VA-111 Shkval—Russian rocket-propelled supercavitation torpedo
Rockets for Research
- Disappearing rocket—rocket that disintegrate if fired from the ground for safety reasons
- Rocket plane—winged aircraft powered by rockets
- Rocket sled—used for high speeds along ground
- Sounding rocket—suborbital rocket used for atmospheric and other research
Misc
- Equivalence principle—Einstein was able to show that the effects of gravity were completely equivalent to a rocket's acceleration in any small region of space
- Rocket Festival—Tradition bamboo rockets of Laos and Northeastern Thailand
- Rocket mail—an ill-fated attempt to commercialize rocketry
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