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booster rocket - the first stage of a multistage rocket

booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket, booster

multistage rocket, step rocket - a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted

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

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razzo propulsore

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An 11-metre scaled-down version of the supersonic jetliner crashed in the Australian desert yesterday just seconds after its launch on the back of a booster rocket. Last night, the team behind the plane were still unsure why Japan's National Experimental Supersonic Transport separated from its rocket at the Woomera rocket testing range.

THERE GOES THE NEW CONCORDE

The Hope-X will be blasted into orbit by a powerful booster rocket and then re-enter the earth's atmosphere on a pre-programmed route for a runway landing on the island.

NUKE ISLAND BOUGHT FOR SPACE BASE

SPACE RACE: The Russian Soyuz TMA-3 booster rocket that carried a three-man crew to the international space station is transported to the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Sorted And The City: READY FOR LIFT-OFF

But trouble with its booster rocket left it in too low an orbit, which required nearly three months of gradual nudges to correct.

Discovery; TDRS and other plans

Man's next great space adventure blasted into the skies yesterday when a Russian Proton booster rocket carried the first part of the international space station into orbit.

Lift-off for a new era

Above, the X-43A roars off attached to its rocket; ERA WE GO: Air age is born as booster rocket powers X-43A from B-52

SCRAM!; Jet flies at 7 times speed of sound

The director of the development team, Kimio Sakata, said they would examine the wreckage to determine why the plane separated from its booster rocket just after launch.

1500mph jet is superchronic

But he and two other commanders said they think it will be a satellite launch because of the public announcements from Pyongyang, including coordinates of the ocean area where the booster rocket is likely to fall.

US can knock down a North Korean missile