Rocketry

alt=|thumb|upright|A Soyuz-FG rocket launches from "[[Gagarin's Start" (Site 1/5), Baikonur Cosmodrome ]] A rocket (from , and so named for its shape) is an elongated flying vehicle that uses a rocket engine to accelerate without using any surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Unlike jet engines, rockets are fuelled entirely by propellant which they carry, without the need for oxygen from air; consequently a rocket can fly in the vacuum of space, indeed rocket engines operate more efficiently outside the atmosphere.

The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American two-stage super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. The primary launch vehicle for the Artemis program, SLS is designed to launch the four-person Orion spacecraft for missions to the Moon, on a trans-lunar injection trajectory. The rocket first launched on November 16, 2022, carrying the uncrewed Artemis I mission. Its first crewed launch was for the Artemis II lunar flyby on April 1, 2026, becoming the second launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit (LEO), after NASA's Saturn V of the Apollo program, and the third to ever be planned to fly humans past LEO, after the N1.

system designed to rescue the crew of an aircraft in an emergency

weapon projectile utilizing a self-contained rocket engine to propel itself to its target

small recreational rocket

maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well, and then accelerates when its fall reaches maximum speed

rocket motor which uses propellants in two different states of matter

landing by aircraft or spacecraft that does not result in significant damage or destruction of the vehicle

nationwide missile defense program of the United States

1962 concept for a reusable, sea-launched rocket

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Orbit to planetary surface attack with inert projectiles

rail propulsion

traditional festival of Laos and Thailand

foremost tip of aircraft, rockets, and missiles

The OTRAG rocket was a West German modular satellite-delivery rocket developed by the OTRAG company (, or ) in the 1970s and 80s. The OTRAG rocket was to become a rocket built up from several mass-produced units, intended to carry satellites with a weight of 1-10 tons or more into orbit. Mass production meant that the vehicle was projected to have been 10x cheaper than conventional vehicles of similar capability.

mail delivery by rockets or missiles

aspect of history

Rocketdyne was an American rocket engine design and production company headquartered in Canoga Park, in the western San Fernando Valley of suburban Los Angeles, in southern California.

right|thumb|upright=1.35|Rollerons on the trailing edge of the fins of the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile right|thumb|upright=1.35|Detail of a rolleron on a Sidewinder right|thumb|upright=1.35|Rollerons on the fins of the K-13 (missile)|K-13 missile A rolleron is a type of aileron used for rockets and used to provide passive stabilization against rotation. While most commonly used to stabilize against roll, it can also be used for counteracting yaw and pitch as well.

predecessor organization to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

rocket launch phenomenon

rocket motor or stage used to move a satellite from a transfer orbit to its final orbit

thumb|250px|Orbital Sciences Corporation|Orbital's Stargazer launches Pegasus carrying the three [[Space Technology 5 satellites in the skies of California, 2006.]] Air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) is the method of launching smaller rockets at altitude from a heavier conventional horizontal-takeoff aircraft, to carry satellites to low Earth orbit. It is a follow-on development of air launches of experimental aircraft that began in the late 1940s. This method, when employed for orbital payload insertion, presents significant advantages over conventional vertical rocket launches, particularly because

science museum in Huntsville, Alabama

vehicle designed for outer space, including both the launch vehicle and spacecraft

explosive device utilizing a tube of long welded metal cylinders

near Los Angeles, a test facility for rockets and (formerly) nuclear reactors

solid-rocket propellant

designation system for rockets

designation scheme for aerospace systems in the U.S. Armed Forces

type of company which specialises in launching spacecraft

spacecraft launch or descent maneuver

process of developing the appearance and function of nose cones

launch rockets etc. from aircraft

water-based rocket launch noise control

hobby rocketry using higher impulse range motors