Usually means: Rocket for suborbital research flights.
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  1. sounding rocket: Merriam-Webster
  2. sounding rocket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  4. sounding rocket: Wiktionary
  5. sounding rocket: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. sounding rocket: Dictionary.com
  7. Sounding Rocket, Sounding rocket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. sounding rocket: Rhymezone
  9. sounding rocket: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sounding rocket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. sounding rocket: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (space science) A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes.

Similar:
space probe, probe, sonde, minisatellite, ionosonde, smallsat, sodar, ozonesonde, soniscope, echo sounding, more...

Opposite:
orbital rocket, space rocket, launch vehicle

Phrases:
V-2 sounding rocket, more...

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Similar:
space probe, probe, sonde, minisatellite, ionosonde, smallsat, sodar, ozonesonde, soniscope, echo sounding, more...

Opposite:
orbital rocket, space rocket, launch vehicle

Phrases:
V-2 sounding rocket, more...



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