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multistage rocket

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multistage rocket
n.
A rocket composed of two or more propulsion units that fire in succession. Also called step rocket.
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Noun1.multistage 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
step rocket
booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket, booster - the first stage of a multistage rocket
rocket, projectile - any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
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Pyongyang launched a multistage rocket it said was mounted with a satellite but the US, Japan and other nations condemned the firing as a test of ballistic missile technology since the same rocket can be mounted with a warhead.
Rocket launch stopped with minutes to go by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
Robert Goddard, chairman of the Clark University Physics Department in the 1920s and '30s and now recognized as "the father of modern rocketry," not only built and tested the world's first liquid-fueled rockets, but he also conceived and developed crucial concepts that are still the mainstays of our current space missions: the multistage rocket, photographic and radio recording and transmission during flight, payload recovery techniques, gyroscopic stabilization and guidance systems, and more.
Separating science and fiction by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
If we can confirm North Korea's capability to build a multistage rocket and technology to separate it as well as to control its posture and thrust force, that means a possibility that the North's ballistic missile development is progressing rapidly," Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada Hamada told MPs.
North Korea re-elects Kim as leader, paving way for son's rise by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
 
 
 
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