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| has gloss | eng: A sounding rocket, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The origin of the term comes from nautical vocabulary, it refers to sounding, which means throwing a weighted line off of a ship to gauge the water's depth, or measuring a vertical distribution of a physical property such as in atmospheric sounding. Here it is intended as taking a measurement. |
| lexicalization | eng: Sounding rocket X-ray astronomy |
| instance of | e/Expendable launch system |
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