Definition of sounding rocket
: a rocket used especially to obtain information concerning atmospheric conditions at various altitudes
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Of course, the trade-off is that sounding rockets have a brief mission life.
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Traveling at a moment’s notice is a sounding rocket badge of honor.
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The space agency will launch a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility on the Delmarva Peninsula that will deploy colorful vapor tracers.
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Working in the New Mexico desert, the scientists launched a sounding rocket called FOXSI containing seven telescopes on a 15-minute trip into space to observe the sun (shown above in x-ray light).
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The sounding rocket program fills the gap between regions of the atmosphere that are too low for satellites to sample but too high for conventional aircraft to reach.
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In January, German researchers produced an exotic state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate by launching cold atoms on a sounding rocket from Sweden.
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First Known Use of sounding rocket
circa 1945
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