Meanings
nounsounding rocket (plural sounding rockets)
plural sounding rockets
- spaceA suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 探空火箭
- 探空火箭 (tànkōng huǒjiàn)rocket
Finnish luotainraketti
- luotainrakettirocket
Swedish sondraket
- sondraketrocket
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