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Term | Definition | Rating |
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RMR | Rec Models Rockets | |
RFB | Rockets Favorite Band | |
GMLR | Guided Missiles and Large Rockets | |
CHR | Can Hear Rockets | |
RATT | Rockets All The Time | |
CMFRA | Chief Missile Forces, Rockets, & Artillery | |
WRFS | Wisconsin Rockets For Schools | |
HOU | Houston Rockets | |
ORIN | Orbital Rockets InterNational and | |
TRICE | Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics | |
LRBO | Launcher Rockets and Balloon Operations | |
CSAR | Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets | |
RPD | Rockets Power Dancers | |
QCR | Qualified Competition Rockets | |
WOFR | Watch Out For Rockets | |
JSR | Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets | |
RHC | Rockets Hockey Club | |
RHC | Rockets Hockey Club | |
KSR | Kerbal S Rockets | |
LRA | Launching Rockets At | |
RRPR | Reduced Range Practice Rockets | |
CSAR | Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets | |
FROG | Food for Rockets in Greece |
What does ROCKETS mean?
- Rockets
- A rocket (from Italian: rocchetto, lit. 'bobbin/spool') is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within the vehicle; therefore a rocket can fly in the vacuum of space. Rockets work more efficiently in a vacuum and incur a loss of thrust due to the opposing pressure of the atmosphere. Multistage rockets are capable of attaining escape velocity from Earth and therefore can achieve unlimited maximum altitude. Compared with airbreathing engines, rockets are lightweight and powerful and capable of generating large accelerations. To control their flight, rockets rely on momentum, airfoils, auxiliary reaction engines, gimballed thrust, momentum wheels, deflection of the exhaust stream, propellant flow, spin, or gravity. Rockets for military and recreational uses date back to at least 13th-century China. Significant scientific, interplanetary and industrial use did not occur until the 20th century, when rocketry was the enabling technology for the Space Age, including setting foot on the Moon. Rockets are now used for fireworks, missiles and other weaponry, ejection seats, launch vehicles for artificial satellites, human spaceflight, and space exploration. Chemical rockets are the most common type of high power rocket, typically creating a high speed exhaust by the combustion of fuel with an oxidizer. The stored propellant can be a simple pressurized gas or a single liquid fuel that disassociates in the presence of a catalyst (monopropellant), two liquids that spontaneously react on contact (hypergolic propellants), two liquids that must be ignited to react (like kerosene (RP1) and liquid oxygen, used in most liquid-propellant rockets), a solid combination of fuel with oxidizer (solid fuel), or solid fuel with liquid or gaseous oxidizer (hybrid propellant system). Chemical rockets store a large amount of energy in an easily released form, and can be very dangerous. However, careful design, testing, construction and use minimizes risks.
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