booster rocket
First-stage propulsion unit
A booster rocket is a rocket used to provide additional thrust during launch, typically detaching once its fuel is spent.
Boosters supplement the main engines of a spacecraft or missile, helping lift heavy payloads through the atmosphere: The shuttle's solid rocket boosters separated two minutes after liftoff.
Often shortened to booster.
- thrusterEngine providing forward force
- launchSet into motion
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
- ignitionStarting combustion process
- liftoffMoment of ascent
lift off · mission control · fuel · stage · separation · NASA · first stage · countdown · launch pad · exhaust · solid · liquid · controlled burn · acceleration · escape velocity · orbit · thrust · engine
- rocketsballistic missile, Saturn V, Falcon 9, V-2, Atlas
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- propulsionjet, thrusting, jets, launching, engines
- Reusable RocketsFalcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship, SpaceX, Blue Origin
- Rocket Enginesnozzle, combustion chamber, thruster, propulsion, oxidizer
- acceleratorsparticle accelerator, linear accelerator, cyclotron, synchrotron, collider