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Rocket
A rocket is a vehicle or engine that produces thrust by ejecting propellant at high velocity, spanning fireworks, missiles, sounding rockets, and orbital launch vehicles.
Rocket artillery
Rocket artillery is artillery that delivers explosive warheads by self-propelled rockets rather than gun-launched projectiles, with multi-barrel launchers firing salvos of a dozen or more rockets.
Rocket candy
Rocket candy is a solid rocket propellant made from potassium nitrate and a sugar or sugar alcohol, the standard low-cost propellant of amateur and academic rocket motors.
Rocket Chip
Rocket Chip is an open-source system-on-chip design generator developed at UC Berkeley that emits synthesizable RTL for RISC-V systems, including the in-order Rocket core and the out-of-order BOOM core.
Rocket Companies
Rocket Companies is a Detroit-based fintech holding company founded in 1985 by Dan Gilbert, whose flagship Rocket Mortgage is the nation's largest mortgage originator by loan units.
Rocket engine
A rocket engine is a propulsion device that generates thrust by burning fuel and an oxidizer carried on board, expelling hot exhaust through a nozzle to push the vehicle forward.
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company founded in New Zealand in 2006 by Peter Beck, headquartered in Long Beach, California, and best known for its Electron small-lift rocket.
Rocket Lab Electron
The Rocket Lab Electron, also known as the Electron rocket, is a small two-stage orbital launch vehicle built by Rocket Lab, first flown in 2017 from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.
Rocket Lab HASTE
Rocket Lab HASTE is a suborbital testbed rocket derived from Electron, flying hypersonic technology tests for the US government since its June 2023 debut from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 is the world's first private orbital launch site, on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula, opened in 2016 as the dedicated pad for the Electron rocket.
Rocket Lake
Rocket Lake, also known as Intel Rocket Lake, is the codename for Intel's 11th Generation Core S-series desktop processors, launched in March 2021 and the last Intel client family with AVX-512.
Rocket launcher
A rocket launcher is a tube-type weapon, typically fired from the shoulder, that launches rockets or rocket-assisted projectiles carrying explosive warheads against vehicles, fortifications, or personnel.
Rocket mail
Rocket mail, or missile mail, is the transport of letters and parcels by rocket, tried only in experiments, most notably Austria in 1931 and the United States in 1959.
Rocket propellant
Rocket propellant, also called rocket fuel, is the fuel and oxidizer a rocket carries onboard and burns to produce thrust, in liquid, solid, or hybrid form.
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-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.
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.
Rocking chair
A rocking chair is a chair mounted on curved runners or a mechanical base that lets the occupant rock by shifting weight, invented in the 18th century.
Rockport Plant
The Rockport Plant, also called the Rockport Generating Station, is a two-unit coal-fired power station in Rockport, Indiana, whose units entered service in 1984 and 1989 and together provide about 2,600 MW.
ROCKS (missile)
ROCKS is a quasi-ballistic air-to-surface standoff missile made by Israel's Rafael, unveiled in 2019, known in India as Crystal Maze 2, with a 250 km range and 3 m accuracy.
RocksDB
RocksDB is an embeddable, persistent key-value store written as a C++ library, developed at Facebook, open-sourced in 2013, and built on Google's LevelDB for fast flash storage.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation is an American industrial automation company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, tracing to the Allen-Bradley Company founded in 1903 and known for programmable logic controllers.
Rockwell B-1 Lancer
The Rockwell B-1 Lancer, or B-1 bomber, is a supersonic swing-wing heavy bomber of the United States Air Force, operational since 1986 with its nuclear mission ended in 1992.