multistage rocket in a sentence
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- The first high-speed multistage rockets were the RTV-G-4 Bumper rockets tested at the White Sands Proving Ground and later at Cape Canaveral from 1948 to 1950.
- North Korea boasted Tuesday about the " might of science and technology " that allowed it to launch a multistage rocket that has perplexed the world.
- The Scout multistage rocket was the first ( and for a long time, the only ) orbital launch vehicle to be entirely composed of solid fuel stages.
- This text also mentioned the use of the first known multistage rocket, the'fire-dragon issuing from the water'( huo long chu shui ), used mostly by the Chinese navy.
- On the other hand, LACE-like mass fraction over pure rockets ( even multistage rockets ) sufficiently to hold out the possibility of full reusability with better payload fraction.
- In August 1998, they fired a multistage rocket that flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean, proving the North Koreans could strike any part of Japan's territory.
- Angered by North Korea's firing of a multistage rocket last summer that overflew its territory, Japan has since suspended food aid and cut off all contacts aimed at normalizing relations.
- Tokyo suspended all food aid after North Korea fired a multistage rocket that flew over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean in August 1998, setting off fears across East Asia.
- Such motors are typically used as first-stage motors in multistage rockets as the lack of delay element and cap permit burning material to burst forward and ignite an upper-stage motor.
- Throttling tends to be required more for powered landings, and launch into space using a single main stage ( such as the Space Shuttle ), than for launch with multistage rockets.