rocket launching meaning

• Noun: rocket launching
  1. The launching of a rocket or missile under its own power
     - rocket firing

  Derived forms: rocket launchings

  Type of: launch, launching

• launching:    Noun: launching&nb ...
• rocket:    Noun: rocket  ...
• launching pad:    Noun: launching pa ...

Examples

1. Hezbollah resumed rocket launching from the site within hours of the raid.
2. Over 200 rocket launchings took place on the island between 1946 and 1948.
3. Also that year, a rocket launching an Australian satellite failed to lift off.
4. Space-based Staring Infrared Sensors can detect the heat of rocket launching motors.
5. The rocket launching site at Balasore is situated in a place called Trishul etc.