rocket launch
Fiery vertical ascent
A rocket launch is the event of a rocket lifting off from its launch pad, propelled by its engines.
The term covers everything from space missions to fireworks displays: We watched the rocket launch from Cape Canaveral.
Launch windows, countdowns, and scrubs are all part of rocket launch vocabulary.
The phrase also works as a verb: They plan to rocket launch the satellite next month.
- liftoffMoment of ascent
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- ground crewAircraft support personnel
- all systems goComplete operational preparedness
- spaceportSpacecraft launch facility
staging · propellant · ignition · telemetry · space tourism · escape velocity · weather monitoring · orbital mechanics · NASA · booster · trajectory · thrust · guidance system · mission control · delta-v · payload · nozzle · mission
- space termsmoon, star, planet, satellite, orbit
- Rocket Launchesliftoff, countdown, ignition, blast off, booster
- space operationsdocking, spacewalk, EVA, landing, reentry
- Space Programsspace station, lunar mission, space research, mission control, Long March
- STEM competitionshackathon, coding challenge, egg drop, bridge building, balsa wood
- space explorationSaturn V, satellites, mission, Falcon Heavy, probes
rocket launchlanding
Descent's final moment
touchdown · descent · reentry · splashdown · deorbit
rocket launchdecommissioning
Withdrawing from active service
shutdown · grounding · rollback · stand-down
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