fission rocket (English, noun)
expansion: fission rocket (plural fission rockets)
Senses:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A spacecraft having a fission reactor that powers the rocket.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nuclear-pulse rocket that uses fission-based atomic bombs to supply propulsive force.
Forms:
form: fission rockets
tags: plural