WordNet
test rocket
n. a rocket fired for test purposes [syn: research rocket, test instrument vehicle]
Usage examples of "test rocket".
I want this test rocket wired and fused and ready to take off in two and a half hours.
There was a Little Joe - a test rocket for Apollo - and a Mercury-Redstone, looking absurdly small and delicate.
Then a little burst of violet flame showed from the stern of the test rocket.
For those who don't know, in 1995, a Norwegian test rocket using the first stage from an American Honest John missile triggered a full nuclear alert in Russia, from the Strategic Rocket Forces up to Yeltsin himself.
Yet we each felt that first we had to see what it would be like back in the high-test rocket of America.