booster rocket

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Noun

booster rocket - the first stage of a multistage rocketbooster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket, boostermultistage rocket, step rocket - a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhaustedrocket engine, rocket - a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

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razzo propulsore

Booster Rocket

booster rocket

[′büs·tər ‚räk·ət] (aerospace engineering) Also known as booster. A rocket motor, either solid-or liquid-fueled, that assists the normal propulsive system or sustainer engine of a rocket or aeronautical vehicle in some phase of its flight. A rocket used to set a vehicle in motion before another engine takes over.

Booster Rocket

an auxiliary rocket engine mounted on an aircraft or missile and used to boost acceleration during launch. Booster rockets have operating times substantially shorter than that of the main engine and high ratios of thrust to the launch weight of the vehicle (for booster rockets on missiles). Solid-propellant rocket engines with up to several tens of kilonewtons of thrust and operating times up to several seconds are usually used as booster rockets; liquid-propellant rocket engines are also used, but rarely. Booster rockets are used for airplanes, high-altitude research rockets, and winged rockets. The engines of the first stages of launch vehicles are often called booster rockets if they are constructed in unit with later stages.

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Synonyms for booster rocket

noun the first stage of a multistage rocket

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