What types of space rockets are there?

Answer 1

General rocketry

• Aircraft
• Ammonium Perchlorate Composite Propellant - Most common solid rocket fuel
• Astrodynamics the study of spaceflight trajectories
• Bipropellant rocket - two-part liquid or gaseous fuelled rocket
• Tripropellant rocket - variable propellant mixes can improve performance
• Hot Water rocket - powered by boiling water
• Hybrid rocket - solid rocket burnt by second fluid propellant
• Gantry
• Pendulum rocket fallacy - an instability of rockets
• Pulsed Rocket Motors - solid rocket that burns in segments
• Rocket fuel
• Rocket launch
• Rocket launch site
• Rocket propellant
• Rocket engine
• Rocket engine nozzles - De Laval nozzles
• Solid rocket
• Sounding rocket
• Spacecraft
• Spacecraft propulsion - describes many different propulsion systems for spacecraft
• Spaceflight
• Space Shuttle program

• Tsiolkovsky rocket equation - equation describing rocket performance

Recreational rocketry

• Model rocket - small hobby rocket
• High-powered rocket
• Water rocket - toy rocket launched for recreational purposes using water as propellant
• Balloon rocket
• Tripoli Rocketry Association
• National Association of Rocketry

Recreational pyrotechnic rocketry

• Bottle rocket - small firework type rocket often launched from bottles
• Skyrocket - fireworks that typically explode at apogee

Weaponry

• Rocket propelled grenade - military use of rockets
• Air-to-ground rockets
• Fire Arrow - one of the earliest types of rocket
• Shin Ki Chon Korean variation of the Chinese fire arrow
• Katyusha rocket launcher - rack mounted rocket
• VA-111 Shkval - Russian rocket propelled supercavitation torpedo

Rockets for Research

• Disappearing rocket - rocket that disintegrate if fired from the ground for safety reasons
• Rocket plane - winged aircraft powered by rockets
• Rocket sled - used for high speeds along ground
• Sounding rocket - suborbital rocket used for atmospheric and other research

Misc

• Rocket mail - an ill-fated attempt to commercialize rocketry
• Rocket Festival Tradition bamboo rockets of Laos and Northeastern Thailand
• Equivalence principle - Einstein was able to show that the effects of gravity were completely equivalent to a rocket's acceleration in any small region of space