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Rocket Punch (로켓펀치)
Rocket Punch (로켓펀치, RCPC) was a six-member Woollim Entertainment girl group, debuting August 7, 2019 with Pink Punch and "Bim Bam Bum"; all members left the agency by August 2026.
Rocket Queen
Rocket Queen: closing track (6:13) of Guns N' Roses' 1987 debut Appetite for Destruction, credited to Rose, Slash, Stradlin, McKagan, and Adler; riff from Slash's 1984 band Road Crew, dedicated to Barbi Von Greif, with real recorded sex sounds in the bridge.
Rocket Raccoon
Rocket Raccoon (89P13), Marvel Comics anthropomorphic raccoon created by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen, debuting as 'Rocky' in Marvel Preview #7 (1976/1977); Halfworld origin, Guardians of the Galaxy member, MCU star.
Rocket Racing
Rocket Racing was a free Psyonix-developed arcade racing mode inside Fortnite, launched December 8, 2023, with 12-player drift-fly-boost races, Rocket League cross-game cars, ranked Bronze-to-Unreal tiers, and shutdown on October 1, 2026.
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (रॉकेट सिंह: सेल्समैन ऑफ द ईयर)
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (रॉकेट सिंह: सेल्समैन ऑफ द ईयर) is a 2009 Hindi comedy-drama by Yash Raj Films, directed by Shimit Amin, written by Jaideep Sahni, starring Ranbir Kapoor as salesman Harpreet Singh Bedi, who secretly founds Rocket Sales Corporation inside AYS Computers.
Rocket sled
A rocket sled is a test vehicle propelled along a rail track by rocket engines, exposing equipment to high accelerations, including John Stapp's famous 1954 ride.
Rocket stove
A rocket stove is a wood-burning cookstove conceived by Dr. Larry Winiarski at Aprovecho Research Center in Oregon in 1982, using an insulated chimney for a hot, efficient burn.
Rocket to Russia
Rocket to Russia is the Ramones' third studio album, released November 4, 1977 on Sire Records. The punk classic featuring Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach was the last album recorded by all four founding members.
Rocket-powered aircraft
A rocket-powered aircraft, or rocket plane, is an airplane propelled by a rocket engine, from the World War II Me 163 Komet to the X-15 and modern spaceplanes.
Rocket-propelled grenade
A rocket-propelled grenade, or RPG, is a shoulder-fired unguided anti-armor weapon; the Soviet RPG-7, adopted in 1961, remains among the world's most widely distributed light weapons.
Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat is an open-source team communication platform written in TypeScript, launched in 2015 and used by over 12 million users in more than 150 countries.
Rocketdyne
Rocketdyne is an American rocket engine manufacturer founded in 1955, known for the engines that powered the Redstone missile, Saturn rockets, the Space Shuttle, and NASA's Space Launch System.
Rocketdyne F-1
The Rocketdyne F-1 was a kerosene and liquid oxygen rocket engine, developed by Rocketdyne to power the first stage of the Saturn V Moon rocket.
Rocketdyne J-2
The Rocketdyne J-2, also known as the J-2 engine, was an American rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen that powered the upper stages of the Saturn IB and Saturn V during Apollo.
Rocketlane
Rocketlane is an enterprise software startup founded in April 2020 by Srikrishnan Ganesan, Vignesh Girishankar, and Deepak Bala, selling an AI-powered professional services automation platform.
Rocketman (film)
Rocketman (2019) is a musical fantasy biopic of Elton John, directed by Dexter Fletcher, written by Lee Hall, and starring Taron Egerton; produced by Marv Films and Rocket Pictures for Paramount, it uses John's songs as fantasy musical numbers rather than strict biography.
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect is a 2022 Indian biographical drama, R. Madhavan's directorial debut, about ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, falsely accused of espionage in 1994; it premiered at Cannes 2022 and won the 69th National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
Rockets Redglare
Rockets Redglare, born Michael Morra, was an American character actor in Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, and Trees Lounge who also worked as a bodyguard to Sid Vicious and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Rocketship X-M
Rocketship X-M (Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white sci-fi film by Kurt Neumann for Lippert, rushed out 25 days before Destination Moon; a Moon crew lands on Mars, finds an atomic-war ruin, and dies returning to Earth.
Rocketsonde
A rocketsonde is an expendable meteorological instrument released from a small rocket near apogee, measuring wind, temperature, pressure, and moisture during descent through the upper atmosphere.
RocketWerkz
RocketWerkz is a New Zealand video game studio founded by Dean Hall (DayZ creator, ex-Bohemia Interactive), based in Auckland after starting in Dunedin in 2014-2015; known for Icarus, Stationeers, Tencent investment, and Kitten Space Agency.
Rockfall
A rockfall is a type of landslide in which rocks detach from a steep slope or cliff and descend mainly by free-fall, bouncing, and rolling at very rapid speeds.
Rockford
Rockford is a 1999 Indian coming-of-age film, Nagesh Kukunoor's second after Hyderabad Blues, about 13-year-old Rajesh Naidu at a Catholic boarding school; starring Rohan Dey, Nandita Das, and Kailash Atmanathan.
Rockford crime family
The Rockford crime family, also known as the Zammuto crime family or the Rockford Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia family based in Rockford, Illinois, led by Sicilian-born bosses.
Rockford Peaches
Rockford Peaches, women's professional baseball team of Rockford, Illinois, 1943–1954; charter AAGPBL member, four-time champion (1945, 1948, 1949, 1950), home at Beyer Stadium, subject of A League of Their Own.
Rockford, Illinois
Rockford, Illinois: county seat of Winnebago County on the Rock River, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. Third-largest Illinois city, 148,655 people (2020); former furniture and "Screw City" manufacturing center.
Rockhampton
Rockhampton, Queensland city on the Fitzroy River, Australia's beef capital, proclaimed 1858 after the Canoona gold rush; Darumbal country, flood-prone, 2032 Olympic rowing venue.
Rockhopper penguin
Rockhopper penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome and E. moseleyi (northern rockhopper): small crested penguin with red eyes and yellow brow plumes that hops up cliffs; northern taxon Endangered, southern Vulnerable.
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree: Johnny Marks song recorded October 1958 by 13-year-old Brenda Lee, produced by Owen Bradley in Nashville. Flopped at first, then hit UK No. 6 (1962) and Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 2023, making 78-year-old Lee the oldest chart-topper.
Rockin' in the Free World
"Rockin' in the Free World" is a 1989 Neil Young song from the album Freedom, debuted in Seattle in February 1989; a satirical anthem criticizing homelessness, drugs, and Bush-era rhetoric despite its patriotic-sounding chorus.