sounding rocket
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sounding rocket
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Malaspina engages in international and generationally diverse research teams, including a team building a sounding rocket to explore the interface between Earth and space.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024
It turned out to be a sounding rocket launched from Wallops Island, Va., as part of research for Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2023
"I'm really happy about the collaboration," Rasel says, because even the sounding rocket flights are much too short to reach his group's goals.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 7, 2017
The company was the first private company to reach space in the southern hemisphere in 2009 with a suborbital sounding rocket.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 29, 2014
Or, for an admittedly steep $1 million to $2 million, researchers can put automated equipment on a sounding rocket that provides up to 20 minutes of microgravity far above Earth's atmosphere.
From Nature • May 4, 2011
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