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n. 1 A rocket engine that uses a solid propellant that, when combusted, generates gases which are used for rocket propulsion. 2 A rocket that uses such an engine
Usage examples of "solid rocket".
There was an image of a white cloud, tinged with orange, with Solid Rocket Boosters veering crazily out of it, trailing smoke.
It had the crisp, crude sharpness characteristic of solid rocket burns.
It looked something like the lower half of a space shuttle -- two solid rocket boosters strapped to a fat, rust-brown external fuel tank -- but there was no moth-shaped shuttle orbiter clinging to the tank.
In those days we had to ride these big solid rocket boosters up to orbit, you know, and then, and then.
It's a digital propulsion chip: a little bank of solid rocket motors, and you can address the motors individually, pop pop pop, to get a high degree of maneuverability and control.
The countdown of the solid rocket booster went smooth- ly, swiftly, as Kinsman sat alone in the Manta spacecraft perched atop the rocket's nose.
She couldn't help letting out a gasp as the solid rocket boosters, the SRBs, exploded into action.
It climbed silently into the air, the light of the solid rocket boosters sparkling a trail across the choppy water, almost too bright to look directly at, and then vanished into the clouds.