sounding rocket

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   a research rocket used to obtain information about the atmosphere at various altitudes

   Broadertest rocket

Questions about sounding rocket

What does sounding rocket mean?

sounding rocket means "a research rocket used to obtain information about the atmosphere at various altitudes".

Is sounding rocket a common word?

sounding rocket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.