rockets

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The fibre-optic drones used by Hezbollah – also known as First-Person View or FPVs – are much harder to detect than the rockets and mortars this town is used to.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

SpaceX may be known for building majestic rockets, firing those giant beasts of marvelous engineering into the skies and catching them with chopsticks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Its pioneering use of reusable rockets, which dramatically lowered the cost of exiting the earth’s atmosphere, has created the modern space economy.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

The company’s prospects brightened at the end of that year when it completed its first-ever controlled landing of a Falcon 9 rocket, paving the way for reusable rockets.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

He unfailingly sought me out at the Big Store when he saw me to ask me how I was doing and, lately, what was going on with the rockets.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam