Rockets and missiles

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.

device for launching rockets

class of weapon

advanced system for holding and firing missiles on mobile naval platforms

underground structure for the storage and launching of ballistic missiles

American small-lift launch vehicle

thumb|Military space program ' (fr.: gemstones) that included the five prototypes Agate (rocket)|Agathe, Topaze, Emeraude, Rubis and Saphir. The Diamant''' rocket (French for 'diamond') was the first exclusively French expendable launch system and at the same time the first satellite launcher not built by either the United States or USSR. As such, it has been referred to as being a key predecessor for all subsequent European launcher projects. The head of the project, Charley Attali, received the Legion of Honour in 1965 for the Diamant.

U.S. Navy satellite program

American space launch vehicle used during the late 1950s and early 1960s

1960s American crewed suborbital rocket

first full-scale prototype of the Atlas missile

prototype of the Atlas missile

The VLS-1 () was the Brazilian Space Agency's main satellite launch vehicle. The launch vehicle would have been capable of launching satellites into orbit. The launch site was located at the Alcântara Launch Center due to its proximity to the equator.

missile program of the United States Army

Series of US nuclear weapon and missile tests

Dutch rocket and human-rated spacecraft built by Copenhagen Suborbitals

thumb|right|300px|The 'divine fire flying crow' (shen huo fei ya), an aerodynamic winged rocket bomb from the Huolongjing

Laser-guided bomb

The Atlas-Centaur was a United States expendable launch vehicle derived from the SM-65 Atlas D missile. The vehicle featured a Centaur upper stage, the first such stage to use high-performance liquid hydrogen as fuel. Launches were conducted from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. After a strenuous flight test program, Atlas-Centaur went on to launch several crucial spaceflight missions for the United States, including Surveyor 1, and Pioneer 10/11. The vehicle would be continuously developed and improved into the 1990s, with the last direct descendan

The Atlas-Agena was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile. It was a member of the Atlas family of rockets, and was launched 109 times between 1960 and 1978. It was used to launch the first five Mariner uncrewed probes to the planets Venus and Mars, and the Ranger and Lunar Orbiter uncrewed probes to the Moon. The upper stage was also used as an uncrewed orbital target vehicle for the Gemini crewed spacecraft to practice rendezvous and docking. However, the launch vehicle family was originally developed for the Air Force and most of its launches were classifi

American sounding rocket

American launch system

takeoff phase of the flight of a rocket

rocket

family of British research ballistic missiles

anti-submarine rocket launcher

proposed three-stage Launch vehicle

type of Brazilian-built sounding rocket

world's first privately funded commercial rocket, produced from Minuteman I stages

ship type used to track missiles, rockets, and spacecraft

rocket

The Atlas-Able was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas missile. It was a member of the Atlas family of rockets, and was used to launch several Pioneer spacecraft towards the Moon. Of the five Atlas-Able rockets built, two failed during static firings, and the other three failed to reach orbit.

French experimental rocket (1964-1967)

first operational version of the U.S. Atlas missile

Australian animated television series

designation of a French experimental rocket

French experimental sub-orbital rocket designed by ONERA for reentry studies

prototype of the Atlas missile

French experimental missile

expendable launch vehicle

American launch vehicle

sounding rocket

American expendable launch vehicle

small German surface-to-air rocket of World War II

thumb|Tibère sounding rocket scheme. thumb|Tibère (fourth rocket) as part of the Onera sounding rocket family. Tibère was a French atmospheric reentry test rocket developed by O.N.E.R.A. (''Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales). It evolved from its predecessor, Bèrènice, with development initiated in 1965 to support the ELECTRE'' reentry experiment program. Tibère, standing at a height of 14.5 m and weighing 4.5 tons, operated as a three-stage rocket.

rocket

type of American expendable launch vehicle