How to Use sounding rocket in a Sentence

sounding rocket

noun

• Of course, the trade-off is that sounding rockets have a brief mission life.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2018
• The suborbital launch on a Black Brant sounding rocket reached an apogee of 243 km.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 July 2022
• The answer lay in its UV spectrum, which is difficult to capture from a sounding rocket.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 18 July 2019
• There have been times when upwards of 30 suborbital sounding rockets have launched from the same site within the same day, says McDowell.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 18 Dec. 2018
• Back in 1988, bull sperm was put into sounding rockets and blasted into the air to see how the sperm would react in microgravity.
  — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2018
• Traveling at a moment’s notice is a sounding rocket badge of honor.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2018
• The sounding rocket program fills the gap between regions of the atmosphere that are too low for satellites to sample but too high for conventional aircraft to reach.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• After four failed tests, the V-2 rocket lifted off from a missile range in New Mexico, releasing a second-stage sounding rocket that attained Mach 6.7.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 8 Jan. 2020
• And in the burgeoning private spaceflight industry, entrepreneurs can use existing sounding rocket infrastructure to get a sense of what their own startup could turn out to be.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
• The new program will not eliminate DOD flight tests, but the simple, two-stage sounding rockets built from surplus inventory motors should cost considerably less than military tests, which can cost tens of millions of dollars to fly.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2018
• Conditions on Mars are far colder, and the ascent vehicle’s exposure time will be far longer than, say, sounding rockets launched into Earth’s aurora borealis from inside the Arctic Circle.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
• Special craft called sounding rockets, which are comparatively cost-effective to launch, give researchers a chance to study inside zero-gravity environments for a few minutes at a time.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
• The sounding rocket campaign’s aim is to determine whether the high-radiation environment around nearby sunlike stars would strip any potentially earthlike planets of their atmospheres on timescales of only a few million years.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 14 May 2022
• The program was created to launch inexpensive sounding rockets carrying scientific experiments and prototypes of missile technology.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2018

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