NOUN
- a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted
How To Use multistage rocket In A Sentence
- After World War I, Oberth studied physics at the University of Munich, where he realized that the key to space travel was the development of multistage rockets.
- In the early twenty-first century, satellites and planetary probes are routinely shot into space on multistage rockets.
- In the 1950s, von Braun and his ‘Rocket Team,’ many of whom had immigrated to the United States, continued their work on multistage rockets near Huntsville, Alabama.
- The travel agency began taking reservations for a North Korean tour it organized in 1998, but it was forced to cancel the trip after North Korea launched a multistage rocket that flew over Japan and crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
- The US DoD also has experience with large multistage rockets with solid motor first stages: Minuteman, Peacekeeper, Trident etc. Ground Test for Ares I-X Start This Week - NASA Watch
- Such a rocket has proven difficult in practice to build, leading to the continued use of multistage rockets.
- Massive payloads into space should continue to be launched by unmanned multistage rockets. Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
