WordNet
n. the launching of a rocket or missile under its own power [syn: rocket launching]
Usage examples of "rocket firing".
The taped noise of an actual Redstone rocket firing was played over the astronaut's headset, and the ride began.
A heavy rocketman's belt of tools slung around his waist, he crawled through the heart of the ship, adjusting a valve here, turning a screw there, seeing that the reactant feeders were clean and clear to the rocket firing chambers.
And last of all he made sure the great rocket firing chambers were secure and the heavy sheets of lead baffling in place to protect him from deadly radioactivity.
Jet Ace was rising straight up into the air, his dorsal rocket firing at full power.
Her instruments had picked up Jacen's unexpected rocket firing and the subsequent approach by enemy coralskippers.
The orbit still wasn't right, so another small rocket firing and a second lunar swing-by was made three weeks later.
Someone had deliberately knocked the safety valve off one of the fuel pumps at precisely T minus one second, too late for even the automatic machinery to shut down the rocket firing.