rocket
Example Sentences
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The Pentagon has begun to address these vulnerabilities by targeting microelectronics, explosives and rocket motors, shipbuilding and key stockpile materials such as rare earths for reshoring, diversification, and surge capacity.
The company is best known for its superiority in the rocket launch business, although its satellite-internet business is behind most of its revenue.
From MarketWatch
The Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket lifted off from its Texas launch site in April and took the six woman-crew on an 11-minute flight which crossed the internationally recognised boundary of space.
From BBC
AFP journalists stationed at China's closest point to Taiwan saw at least 10 rockets blast into the air on Tuesday morning.
From Barron's
That defiance includes displaying their fragile ceramics in the aboveground House of Culture, along with Ryabov’s own work, which survived a rocket attack last summer that damaged several buildings across the city.
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