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rocket

[rok-it] / ˈrɒk ɪt /




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Rocket Lab has proven it can achieve small-lift launches with its Electron Rocket, and its higher-capacity Neutron rocket is on the way.

From Barron's

Sophie Claxton, from Burnley, Lancashire, was 16 and in her first year at college when her mother took her to a GP after her temperature rocketed and she struggled to get out of bed.

From BBC

The risk that January evening was from an experimental SpaceX rocket ship that exploded minutes after liftoff.

From The Wall Street Journal

The small, fully automated rocket took off vertically, and the capsule carrying the tourists then detached in flight before gently descending back to the Texas desert, slowed by parachutes.

From Barron's

Founded in 2006 in New Zealand, the company builds satellites and provides small-satellite launch services for commercial and government customers with its Electron rocket.

From Los Angeles Times