Rocketry Rocketry Air Launching is the practice of dropping a parasite aircraft, rocket, or missile from a mothership. The parasite aircraft or missile is usually is tucked under the wing of the larger mothership and then "dropped" from underneath the wing while in flight. It may also be stored within a bomb bay, beneath the main body or even on the back of the carrier aircraft, as in the case of the D-21 drone. After release, the dropped craft or missile will then fire its own engines or rockets and propel away from the mothership. Air launching provides several advantages over launching from the ground, giving the smaller craft an altitude and range boost, while saving it the weight of the fuel and equipment needed to take off on its own. ...more on Wikipedia about "Air launch"
Alan Bond (born 1944) is Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd ** and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL and Skylon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Bond (rocket developer)"
An all-aspect missile is one which is able to track a target no matter which way the target faces relative to the missile. In other words, an all-aspect missile can be launched against a target in a tail-chase engagement, in a head-on engagement, in a side-on engagement, from above, from below, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "All-aspect"
The American Rocket Society began life on April 4, 1930, under the name American Interplanetary Society. It was founded by G. Edward Pendray, David Lasser, Laurence Manning and others. Its name was changed to American Rocket Society on April 6 1934. The end came in early 1963 when it was absorbed into the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). ...more on Wikipedia about "American Rocket Society"
Belier is the designation of a single-step French elevator research rocket, which in three versions between 1961 and 1970 by Hammaguir, Salto di Quirra, Ile you Levant and Kourou was started. The Belier was used also as upper stage of other French elevator research rockets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belier"
A continuous-rod warhead is a specialized munition used as part of an anti-aircraft missile. ...more on Wikipedia about "Continuous-rod warhead"
A dual-thrust solid fuel rocket motor is a type where the propellant mass is comprised of two different types or densities of fuel. In the case of a tandem dual-thrust motor, the fuel closest to the rocket nozzle burns fast and the fuel further into the motor's body burns slower. This has the effect of giving the rocket a lot of thrust initially, accelerating it up to high speed rapidly, and then once all the fast-burning propellant has burnt, the slow-burning propellant begins delivering a much lower level of thrust. The first phase of acceleration is called "boost" and the second phase "sustain". Not all dual-thrust motors are in a tandem arrangement but non-tandem motors function much the same, they just have a different physical layout of fuel, for example they might burn from the outside to the inside, rather than from the end in. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dual-thrust"
The Graphite-Epoxy motor is a type of rocket engine used as a booster in the Delta II rocket, among others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Graphite-Epoxy Motor"
A hybrid rocket propulsion system typically comprises a solid fuel and a liquid or gas oxidizer. These systems are superior to solid propulsion systems in the respects of safety, throttling, restartability, and environmental cleanliness. However, hybrid systems are slightly more complex than solids, and are more expensive and may be heavier. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hybrid rocket"
Kerim Kerimov ( Azeri, in full: Kərim Abbas Əli oğlu Kərimov, Russian: Керим Алиевич Керимов; 1917 – 2003) was Soviet rocket scientist, one of the founders of the Soviet space industry, and for many years a central figure in the Soviet space program. Despite his prominent role, his identity was kept a secret from the public for most of his career. He was one of the architects of the string of Soviet successes that stunned the world from the early 1960s – from the launch of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin into 108-minute trip around the globe to Mir space station in 1986. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kerim Kerimov"
Kinetic Bombardment or Project Thor is an idea for a weapons system that launches kinetic projectiles from Earth orbit to damage targets on the ground. It is said that, at some point in history, the concept originated in a classified study for the U.S. Air Force. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kinetic bombardment"
LASRE was NASA's Linear Aerospike SR-71 Experiment which took place at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California and concluded November 1998. The experiment's goal was to provide in-flight data to help Lockheed Martin validate the computational predictive tools they are using to determine the aerodynamic performance of a future potential reusable launch vehicle. Information from the LASRE experiment helped Lockheed Martin maximize its design for a future potential reusable launch vehicle. It gave Lockheed an understanding of the performance of the X-33 lifting body and linear aerospike engine combination. ...more on Wikipedia about "LASRE"
A launch tower is constructed on the launch pad of an unguided rocket for the purpose of guiding the rocket until it is fast enough for aerodynamic stabilization to take effect. For the launch of self-guided rockets a launch tower is unnecissary. Service towers and supply towers are sometimes falsely called launch towers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Launch tower"
A Liquid Rocket Booster (LRB) is similar to a Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) attached to the side of a rocket to give it extra lift at takeoff. A Liquid Rocket Booster has fuel and oxidiser in liquid form, as opposed to a solid rocket or hybrid rocket. ...more on Wikipedia about "Liquid Rocket Booster"
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National Missile Defense (NMD) is a military strategy that has been discussed in the United States since the 1960s. The basic idea is to shield the U.S. against incoming missiles by shooting them down as they approach the country, and its role in nuclear strategy has been a heated topic for several decades. (See also Missile Defense Agency and Anti-ballistic missile.) ...more on Wikipedia about "National Missile Defense"
On 24 February, 2005, Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew announced Canada would not be joining the United States' missile defence program. Pettigrew cited sound policy principles as factors in rejecting the program. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Missile Defense in Canada"
Nikolai Alekhin ( Russian: Николай Алехин; 1913 – 1964) was a Soviet Union rocket designer. The Alekhin lunar crater is named in his honour. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nikolai Alekhin"
The term nose cone is used to refer to the forwardmost section of a rocket, guided missile or aircraft. The cone is shaped to offer minimum aerodynamic resistance. Nose cones are also designed for travel in and under water and in high speed land vehicles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nose cone"
The profile of this shape is also formed by a segment of a circle, but the base of the shape is not on the radius of the circle defined by the ogive radius. The rocket body will not be tangent to the curve of the nose at its base. The Ogive Radius is not determined by R and L (as it is for a tangent ogive), but rather is one of the factors to be chosen to define the nose shape. If the chosen Ogive Radius of a Secant Ogive is greater than the Ogive Radius of a Tangent Ogive with the same R and L, then the resulting Secant Ogive appears as a Tangent Ogive with a portion of the base truncated. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nose cone design"
OTRAG ( German: Orbital Transport und Raketen AG, or Orbital Transport and Rockets, Inc.), was a German company which planned in the late 1970s and early 1980s to develop an alternative propulsion system for rockets. OTRAG was the first commercial developer and producer of space launch vehicles. ...more on Wikipedia about "OTRAG"
The Pendulum Rocket Fallacy is a common fundamental misunderstanding of the mechanics of rocket flight and how rockets remain on a stable trajectory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pendulum Rocket Fallacy"
The Portland State Aerospace Society (or PSAS) is a student group at Portland State University building high powered rockets with the vision of putting nanosatellites into orbit. Pursuing this vision has led to building advanced avionics, adaptable airframes, and high energy motors. The group attempts to be open in its development, including posting CAD drawings and schematics, and maintaining its GPL and MIT-licensed software in CVS. ...more on Wikipedia about "Portland State Aerospace Society"
A pulsed rocket motor is typically defined as a multiple pulse solid propellant rocket motor. This design overcomes the limitation of solid propellant motors that they cannot be easily stopped and reignitied. The pulse rocket motor allows the motor to be burned in segments (or pulses) that burn until completion of that segment. The next segment (or pulse) can be ignited on command by either an onboard algorithm or in pre-planned phase. All of the segments are contained in a single rocket motor case as opposed to staged rocket motors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pulsed Rocket Motors"
A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. Often the term rocket is also used to mean a rocket engine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rocket"
*In 1952 in Hespenbusch, Karl Poggensee began to develop and launch small solid-propellant rockets. In the same year a Rocket/Technical Society was created, initially known as DAFRA, then as the German Rocket Society (Deutche Raketengesellschaft) or DRG, and finally as the Hermann Oberth Society (Hermann-Oberth-Gesellshaft) or, as referred to henceforth, HOG. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rocket experiments in the area of Cuxhaven"
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