Sounding Rocket

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	A rocket that carries aloft equipment for making observations of or from the upper atmosphere. See air sounding. Compare probe, sense 3.Usually a sounding rocket has a near vertical trajectory. (references)
Geography	Sounding instrument carried aloft by a rocket. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Sounding rocket

A sounding rocket is an instrument carrying suborbital rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its flight.

The rockets are commonly used to take readings or carry instruments from 50 to 200 km above the surface, the region above the maximum altitude for balloons and below the minimum for satellites. The term 'sounding' is taken from the maritime expression.

A common sounding rocket consists of a solid-fuel rocket motor and a payload. The flight is a simple parabolic trajectory and the average flight time is less than forty minutes. The rocket consumes its fuel on the rising part of the flight then separates and falls away, leaving the payload to complete the arc and return to the ground via a parachute.

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Modern Translation: Sounding Rocket

Language		Translations for "sounding rocket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		raketsonde (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

Dutch		raketsonde (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

Finnish		rakettiluotain (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

French		sonde-fusée, sonde de fusée, fusée-sonde, fusée de sondage. (various references)

German		Wetterrakete (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde), Raketensonde (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde), meteorologische Rakete (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

Greek		πυραυλοβολίδα (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

Italian		razzo sonda (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

Pig Latin		oundingsay ocketray

Portuguese		sonda-foguetão (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde), sonda de foguetão (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde), foguetão de sondagem (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

Spanish		cohete sonda (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)

Swedish		raketsond (rocketsonde, rocket-sonde). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Sounding Rocket

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	-3 letters: constringed, counterions, countersign, countersink, nitrogenous, outscorning.
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	-5 letters: censoring, censuring, centrings, centroids, centurion, coeditors, coinsured, condoners, congruent, consigned, consignor, consorted, construed.
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