185 relations: Ablation, Agni-V, AIM-9 Sidewinder, ALICE (propellant), Aluminium, Ammonium dinitramide, Ammonium nitrate, Ammonium perchlorate, Ammonium perchlorate composite propellant, Amorphous solid, Antares (rocket), Ariane 5, Asphalt, Astrobee, Athena (rocket family), Atlas II, Atlas V, Atlas-Centaur, Attitude control, Auxiliary power unit, Avionics, BATES, Black Brant (rocket), Boeing, California Institute of Technology, Camera, Castor (rocket stage), Charcoal, Charles Bartley, China, Colloid, Combustion, Comparison of orbital launch systems, Comparison of orbital launchers families, Comparison of solid-fuelled orbital launch systems, Constellation program, Crawford burner, Cross section (geometry), Cross-link, Curing (chemistry), De Laval nozzle, Deflagration, Delta II, Delta IV, DF-41, Dinitrogen tetroxide, Energy density, Estes Industries, Fire arrow, Fireworks, ..., Fuel, Galileo (spacecraft), Gas generator, Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, Gimbal, Global Positioning System, Glucose, Graphite, Graphite-Epoxy Motor, Gravity assist, Gunpowder, H-IIA, H-IIB, Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, High-power rocketry, HMX, Huolongjing, Hybrid-propellant rocket, Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene, Impulse (physics), India, Inertial Upper Stage, Instant, Intercontinental ballistic missile, Jack Parsons (rocket engineer), JATO, Jericho (missile), Jetex, Jiao Yu, LGM-118 Peacekeeper, LGM-30 Minuteman, Liquid-propellant rocket, List of military rockets, List of missiles, List of orbital launch systems, List of sounding rockets, List of space launch system designs, Long March 11, Low Earth orbit, Magellan (spacecraft), Magnesium, Mass flow rate, Minotaur (rocket family), Minotaur-C, Missile, Model rocket, Mongol siege of Kaifeng, Mongols, Monopropellant, Mu (rocket family), Multistage rocket, Nano-thermite, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, New Horizons, Nitrocellulose, Nitroglycerin, Nozzle, Nucleation, Omega (rocket), Orbital ATK, Oxide, Oxidizing agent, Parachute, Payload Assist Module, Pegasus (rocket), Persian people, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Plastisol, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, Polyethylene glycol, Potassium nitrate, Potassium perchlorate, Pressure vessel, Propellant, Propellant mass fraction, Propelling nozzle, Pulsed rocket motor, Pyrotechnic composition, Pyrotechnic initiator, Pyrotechnics, Ramjet, RDX, Reinforced carbon–carbon, Rocket, Rocket candy, Rocket engine, RT-2PM Topol, S-Series (rocket family), Scout (rocket family), Seal (mechanical), Second, Sejjil, Self-destruct, Shavit, Skyrocket, Song dynasty, Sorbitol, Sounding rocket, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster, Specific impulse, Star (rocket stage), Start-1, STS-30, STS-34, STS-41, STS-51-L, Submarine-launched ballistic missile, Sucrose, Sulfur, Synthetic rubber, Terrier Malemute, Terrier Orion, The New York Times, Thiokol, Throttle, Thrust, Thrust curve, Titan (rocket family), Titan IIIE, Titan IV, Titanium, UGM-27 Polaris, Ulysses (spacecraft), V-2 rocket, Vega (rocket), Volume, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, VSB-30, Water, Zinc. Expand index (135 more) »
Ablation
Ablation is removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes.
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Agni-V
Agni-V is an intercontinental ballistic missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India.
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AIM-9 Sidewinder
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a short-range air-to-air missile developed by the United States Navy at China Lake, California, in the 1950s, and subsequently adopted by the United States Air Force.
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ALICE (propellant)
ALICE is a rocket propellant which consists of nano-aluminium powder and water.
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Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Ammonium dinitramide
Ammonium dinitramide (ADN) is the ammonium salt of dinitraminic acid.
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Ammonium nitrate
Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound, the nitrate salt of the ammonium cation.
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Ammonium perchlorate
Ammonium perchlorate ("AP") is an inorganic compound with the formula NH4ClO4. It is a colorless or white solid that is soluble in water. Perchlorate is a powerful oxidizer and ammonium is a good fuel. This combination explains the usefulness of this material as a rocket propellant. Its instability has involved it in a number of accidents, such as the PEPCON disaster.
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Ammonium perchlorate composite propellant
Ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP) is a modern solid-fuel rocket used in rocket vehicles.
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Amorphous solid
In condensed matter physics and materials science, an amorphous (from the Greek a, without, morphé, shape, form) or non-crystalline solid is a solid that lacks the long-range order that is characteristic of a crystal.
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Antares (rocket)
Antares, known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation System after Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK) and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's COTS and CRS programs.
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Ariane 5
Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle that is part of the Ariane rocket family, an expendable launch system used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) or low Earth orbit (LEO).
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Asphalt
Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.
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Astrobee
Astrobee is the designation of series of American sounding rockets with 1 - 3 stages.
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Athena (rocket family)
Athena was a 1990s Lockheed Martin expendable launch system which underwent several name changes in its lifetime.
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Atlas II
Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s.
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Atlas V
Atlas V ("V" is pronounced "Five") is an expendable launch system in the Atlas rocket family.
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Atlas-Centaur
The Atlas-Centaur was an American expendable launch system derived from the SM-65 Atlas D missile.
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Attitude control
Attitude control is controlling the orientation of an object with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity like the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.
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Auxiliary power unit
An auxiliary power unit (APU) is a device on a vehicle that provides energy for functions other than propulsion.
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Avionics
Avionics are the electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites, and spacecraft.
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BATES
BATES is an acronym for BAllistic Test and Evaluation System, which is a standardized system for measuring solid rocket propellant performance designed and developed by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory in 1959 through the early 1960s, used for almost forty years thereafter, and again beginning in 2010.
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Black Brant (rocket)
The Black Brant is a family of Canadian-designed sounding rockets built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide.
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California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.
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Camera
A camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or both.
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Castor (rocket stage)
The Castor family of solid-fuel rocket stages and boosters built by Thiokol (now Orbital ATK) and used on a variety of launch vehicles.
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Charcoal
Charcoal is the lightweight black carbon and ash residue hydrocarbon produced by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.
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Charles Bartley
Charles E. Bartley (1921–1996) was an American scientist, known for developing the first elastomeric solid rocket propellant formula, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (now part of NASA) in Pasadena, California in the late 1940s.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Colloid
In chemistry, a colloid is a mixture in which one substance of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance.
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Combustion
Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
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Comparison of orbital launch systems
This is a comparison of orbital launch systems.
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Comparison of orbital launchers families
This page contains a list of orbital launchers' families.
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Comparison of solid-fuelled orbital launch systems
This page contains the lift launch systems constructed by some solid fuel stages except final stage.
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Constellation program
The Constellation Program (abbreviated CxP) is a cancelled manned spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009.
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Crawford burner
A Crawford burner is a device used to test burn rate (chemistry) of solid propellants.
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Cross section (geometry)
In geometry and science, a cross section is the non-empty intersection of a solid body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional spaces.
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Cross-link
A cross-link is a bond that links one polymer chain to another.
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Curing (chemistry)
Curing is a term in polymer chemistry and process engineering that refers to the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by cross-linking of polymer chains, brought about by electron beams, heat, or chemical additives.
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De Laval nozzle
A de Laval nozzle (or convergent-divergent nozzle, CD nozzle or con-di nozzle) is a tube that is pinched in the middle, making a carefully balanced, asymmetric hourglass shape.
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Deflagration
Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, "to burn down") is subsonic combustion propagating through heat transfer; hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it.
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Delta II
Delta II is an expendable launch system, originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas.
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Delta IV
Delta IV is an expendable launch system in the Delta rocket family.
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DF-41
The Dongfeng-41 (DF-41, CSS-X-10), is a Chinese solid-fuelled road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Dinitrogen tetroxide
Dinitrogen tetroxide, commonly referred to as nitrogen tetroxide, is the chemical compound N2O4.
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Energy density
Energy density is the amount of energy stored in a given system or region of space per unit volume.
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Estes Industries
Estes Industries is a company that was started in Denver, Colorado, USA.
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Fire arrow
Fire arrows were one of the earliest forms of weaponized gunpowder.
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Fireworks
Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.
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Fuel
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as heat energy or to be used for work.
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Galileo (spacecraft)
Galileo was an American unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.
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Gas generator
A gas generator is a device for generating gas.
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Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV-III), also referred to as the Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) is a three-stage medium-lift launch vehicle developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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Gimbal
A gimbal is a pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis.
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Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.
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Glucose
Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6.
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Graphite
Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.
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Graphite-Epoxy Motor
A Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) is a solid-fuel rocket motor (SRM) produced by Orbital ATK (Formerly Alliant Techsystems) with an epoxy composite casing.
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Gravity assist
In orbital mechanics and aerospace engineering, a gravitational slingshot, gravity assist maneuver, or swing-by is the use of the relative movement (e.g. orbit around the Sun) and gravity of a planet or other astronomical object to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically to save propellant and reduce expense.
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Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
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H-IIA
H-IIA (H2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
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H-IIB
H-IIB (H2B) is an expendable launch system used to launch H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV, or Kounotori) towards the International Space Station.
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Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane
Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane, also called HNIW and CL-20, is a nitroamine explosive with the formula C6H6N12O12.
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High-power rocketry
High-power rocketry is a hobby similar to model rocketry.
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HMX
HMX, also called octogen, is a powerful and relatively insensitive nitroamine high explosive, chemically related to RDX.
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Huolongjing
The Huolongjing (Wade-Giles: Huo Lung Ching; rendered in English as Fire Drake Manual or Fire Dragon Manual), also known as Huoqitu (“Firearm Illustrations”), is a 14th-century military treatise compiled and edited by Jiao Yu and Liu Bowen of the early Ming dynasty (1368–1683).
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Hybrid-propellant rocket
A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor which uses rocket propellants in two different phases.
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Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene
Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) is an oligomer of butadiene terminated at each end with a hydroxyl functional group.
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Impulse (physics)
In classical mechanics, impulse (symbolized by J or Imp) is the integral of a force, F, over the time interval, t, for which it acts.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Inertial Upper Stage
The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), originally designated the Interim Upper Stage, was a two-stage solid-fueled rocket upper stage developed by Boeing for the United States Air Force beginning in 1976 for raising payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits or interplanetary trajectories following launch aboard a Titan 34D or Titan IV rocket, or from the payload bay of the Space Shuttle.
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Instant
An instant is an infinitesimal moment in time, a moment whose passage is instantaneous.
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Intercontinental ballistic missile
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).
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Jack Parsons (rocket engineer)
John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.
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JATO
JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off), is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.
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Jericho (missile)
Jericho is a general designation given to a loosely related family of deployed ballistic missiles developed by Israel from the 1960s forward.
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Jetex
The Jetex motor is a type of solid-fuel rocket motor produced for use as a powerplant for model aircraft.
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Jiao Yu
Jiao Yu was a Chinese military officer, philosopher, and writer of the Ming dynasty under Zhu Yuanzhang, who founded the dynasty and became known as the Hongwu Emperor.
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LGM-118 Peacekeeper
The LGM-118 Peacekeeper, also known as the MX missile (for Missile-eXperimental), was a land-based ICBM deployed by the United States starting in 1986.
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LGM-30 Minuteman
The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in service with the Air Force Global Strike Command.
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Liquid-propellant rocket
A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants.
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List of military rockets
This is a list of unguided rockets and missiles used for military purposes.
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List of missiles
Below is a list of missiles, sorted alphabetically by name.
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List of orbital launch systems
This is a list of conventional orbital launch systems.
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List of sounding rockets
This is a list of sounding rockets used for suborbital research flights.
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List of space launch system designs
List of space launch system designs covers designs and concepts for rockets and other vehicles for sending payloads into space.
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Long March 11
The Long March 11, or Chang Zheng 11 as in pinyin, abbreviated LM-11 for export or CZ-11 within China, is a Chinese solid-fueled carrier rocket of the Long March family, which is developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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Low Earth orbit
A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with an altitude of or less, and with an orbital period of between about 84 and 127 minutes.
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Magellan (spacecraft)
The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a robotic space probe launched by NASA of the United States, on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.
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Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
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Mass flow rate
In physics and engineering, mass flow rate is the mass of a substance which passes per unit of time.
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Minotaur (rocket family)
The Minotaur is a family of American solid fuel rockets derived from converted Minuteman and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Minotaur-C
Minotaur-C (Minotaur Commercial), formerly known as Taurus, is a four stage solid fueled launch vehicle built in the United States by Orbital ATK and launched from SLC-576E at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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Missile
In modern language, a missile is a guided self-propelled system, as opposed to an unguided self-propelled munition, referred to as a rocket (although these too can also be guided).
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Model rocket
A model rocket is a small rocket designed to reach low altitudes (e.g., for model) and be recovered by a variety of means.
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Mongol siege of Kaifeng
In the Mongol siege of Kaifeng from 1232 to 1233, the Mongol Empire captured Kaifeng, the capital of the Jurchen Jin dynasty.
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Mongols
The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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Monopropellant
Monopropellants are propellants consisting of chemicals that release energy through exothermic chemical decomposition.
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Mu (rocket family)
The Mu, also known as M, was a series of Japanese solid-fuelled carrier rockets, which were launched from Uchinoura between 1966 and 2006.
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Multistage rocket
A multistage rocket, or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant.
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Nano-thermite
Nano-thermite or super-thermite is a metastable intermolecular composite (MICs) characterized by a particle size of its main constituents, a metal and a metal oxide, under 100 nanometers.
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Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is a part of Navy Region Southwest under Commander, Navy Installations Command and is located in the Western Mojave Desert region of California, approximately north of Los Angeles.
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New Horizons
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program.
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Nitrocellulose
Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, and flash string) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent.
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Nitroglycerin
Nitroglycerin (NG), also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin (TNG), trinitroglycerine, nitro, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane, is a heavy, colorless, oily, explosive liquid most commonly produced by nitrating glycerol with white fuming nitric acid under conditions appropriate to the formation of the nitric acid ester.
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Nozzle
A nozzle is a device designed to control the direction or characteristics of a fluid flow (especially to increase velocity) as it exits (or enters) an enclosed chamber or pipe.
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Nucleation
Nucleation is the first step in the formation of either a new thermodynamic phase or a new structure via self-assembly or self-organization.
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Omega (rocket)
Omega, stylized as "OmegA" is a launch vehicle in development by Orbital ATK as an EELV replacement program intended for national security and commercial satellites.
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Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK Inc. was an American aerospace manufacturer and defense industry company.
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Oxide
An oxide is a chemical compound that contains at least one oxygen atom and one other element in its chemical formula.
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Oxidizing agent
In chemistry, an oxidizing agent (oxidant, oxidizer) is a substance that has the ability to oxidize other substances — in other words to cause them to lose electrons.
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Parachute
A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag (or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift).
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Payload Assist Module
The Payload Assist Module (PAM) is a modular upper stage designed and built by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), using Thiokol Star-series solid propellant rocket motors.
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Pegasus (rocket)
The Pegasus is an air-launched rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (now part of Northrop Grumman Innovation System after Northrop Grumman acquired Orbital ATK).
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Persian people
The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group that make up over half the population of Iran.
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Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing, that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter.
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Pioneer 11
Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 6, 1973 to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind and cosmic rays.
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Plastisol
Plastisol is a suspension of PVC or other polymer particles in a liquid plasticizer; it flows as a liquid and can be poured into a heated mold.
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Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable launch system developed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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Polyethylene glycol
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a polyether compound with many applications from industrial manufacturing to medicine.
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Potassium nitrate
Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula KNO3.
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Potassium perchlorate
Potassium perchlorate is the inorganic salt with the chemical formula KClO4.
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Pressure vessel
A pressure vessel is a container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure substantially different from the ambient pressure.
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Propellant
A propellant or propellent is a chemical substance used in the production of energy or pressurized gas that is subsequently used to create movement of a fluid or to generate propulsion of a vehicle, projectile, or other object.
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Propellant mass fraction
In aerospace engineering, the propellant mass fraction is the portion of a vehicle's mass which does not reach the destination, usually used as a measure of the vehicle's performance.
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Propelling nozzle
A propelling nozzle is a nozzle that converts a gas turbine or gas generator into a jet engine.
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Pulsed rocket motor
A pulsed rocket motor is typically defined as a multiple pulse solid-fuel rocket motor.
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Pyrotechnic composition
A pyrotechnic composition is a substance or mixture of substances designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas/smoke or a combination of these, as a result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions.
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Pyrotechnic initiator
A pyrotechnic initiator (also initiator or igniter) is a device containing a pyrotechnic composition used primarily to ignite other, more difficult-to-ignite materials, e.g. thermites, gas generators, and solid-fuel rockets.
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Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound.
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Ramjet
A ramjet, sometimes referred to as a flying stovepipe or an athodyd (an abbreviation of aero thermodynamic duct), is a form of airbreathing jet engine that uses the engine's forward motion to compress incoming air without an axial compressor or a centrifugal compressor.
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RDX
RDX is the organic compound with the formula (O2NNCH2)3.
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Reinforced carbon–carbon
Carbon fibre reinforced carbon (CFRC), carbon–carbon (C/C), or reinforced carbon–carbon (RCC) is a composite material consisting of carbon fiber reinforcement in a matrix of graphite.
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Rocket
A rocket (from Italian rocchetto "bobbin") is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine.
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Rocket candy
Rocket Candy, or R-Candy, is a type of rocket propellant for model rockets made with sugar as a fuel, and containing an oxidizer.
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Rocket engine
A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellant mass for forming its high-speed propulsive jet.
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RT-2PM Topol
The RT-2PM Topol (РТ-2ПМ Тополь ("Poplar"); NATO reporting name SS-25 Sickle; GRAU designation: 15Ж58 ("15Zh58"); START I designation: RS-12M Topol) is a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile designed in the Soviet Union and in service with Russia's Strategic Missile Troops.
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S-Series (rocket family)
S-Series is a fleet of sounding rockets funded by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that have been in service since the late 1960s.
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Scout (rocket family)
The Scout family of rockets were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth.
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Seal (mechanical)
A mechanical seal is a device that helps join systems or mechanisms together by preventing leakage (e.g. in a plumbing system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination.
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Second
The second is the SI base unit of time, commonly understood and historically defined as 1/86,400 of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each.
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Sejjil
Sejil, or Sejjil, (سجیل, a Quranic word meaning "baked clay", see Surat al-Fil) is a family of Iranian solid-fueled medium range ballistic missiles.
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Self-destruct
A self-destruct is a mechanism that can cause an object to destroy itself after a predefined set of circumstances has occurred.
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Shavit
Shavit (Hebrew: "comet" – שביט) is a small lift launch vehicle produced by Israel from 1982 onwards, to launch satellites into orbit.
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Skyrocket
A skyrocket is a type of firework that uses a solid-fuel rocket to rise quickly into the sky; a bottle rocket is a small skyrocket.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
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Sorbitol
Sorbitol, less commonly known as glucitol, is a sugar alcohol with a sweet taste which the human body metabolizes slowly.
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Sounding rocket
A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight.
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV‑104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.
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Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built.
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Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster
The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) were the first solid fuel motors to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight and provided the majority of the Space Shuttle's thrust during the first two minutes of flight.
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Specific impulse
Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a measure of how effectively a rocket uses propellant or jet engine uses fuel.
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Star (rocket stage)
The Star is a family of American solid-fuel rocket motor used by many space propulsion and launch vehicle stages.
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Start-1
Start-1 is a Russian satellite launch vehicle based on the RT-2PM Topol, a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile developed by Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology.
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STS-30
STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle ''Atlantis''.
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STS-34
STS-34 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using ''Atlantis''.
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STS-41
STS-41 was the eleventh mission of the Space Shuttle ''Discovery''.
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STS-51-L
STS-51-L was the 25th mission of the United States Space Shuttle program, and disastrous final mission of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger''.
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Submarine-launched ballistic missile
A submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is a ballistic missile capable of being launched from submarines.
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Sucrose
Sucrose is common table sugar.
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Sulfur
Sulfur or sulphur is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.
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Synthetic rubber
A synthetic rubber is any artificial elastomer.
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Terrier Malemute
The Terrier Malemute is a two-stage American sounding rocket typically used for smaller payloads (less than). Both the Terrier first stage and the Malemute second stage use solid fuel.
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Terrier Orion
The Terrier Orion sounding rocket is a combination of the Terrier booster rocket with the Orion rocket used as a second stage.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Thiokol
Thiokol (variously Thiokol Chemical Corporation, Morton-Thiokol Inc., Cordant Technologies Inc., Thiokol Propulsion, AIC Group, ATK Thiokol, ATK Launch Systems Group; finally Orbital ATK before becoming part of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) was an American corporation concerned initially with rubber and related chemicals, and later with rocket and missile propulsion systems.
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Throttle
A throttle is the mechanism by which fluid flow is managed by the constriction or obstruction.
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Thrust
Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.
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Thrust curve
A thrust curve, sometimes known as a "performance curve" or "thrust profile" is a graph of the thrust of an engine or motor, (usually a rocket) with respect to time.
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Titan (rocket family)
Titan is a family of United States expendable rockets used between 1959 and 2005.
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Titan IIIE
The Titan IIIE or Titan 3E, also known as the Titan III-Centaur, was an American expendable launch system. Launched seven times between 1974 and 1977, it enabled several high-profile NASA missions, including the Voyager and Viking planetary probes and the joint West Germany-U.S. Helios spacecraft. All seven launches were conducted from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Titan IV
The Titan IV family (including the IVA and IVB) of rockets were used by the U.S. Air Force.
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Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element with symbol Ti and atomic number 22.
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UGM-27 Polaris
The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile.
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Ulysses (spacecraft)
Ulysses is a decommissioned robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes.
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V-2 rocket
The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
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Vega (rocket)
Vega (Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata, meaning "Advanced generation European carrier rocket"), is an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency.
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Volume
Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains.
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Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977.
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Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets.
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VSB-30
VSB-30 - "Veículo de Sondagem Booster – 30" (Booster Sounding Vehicle) or "Foguete Suborbital VSB-30" is the designation of a Brazilian sounding rocket, which replaced the Skylark rocket at Esrange.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-propellant_rocket