: the study of, experimentation with, or use of rockets
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Looking ahead, several frontiers remain for chemical rocketry.—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026 The United States government did not invest heavily in rocketry throughout most of the 1950s.—Michael Carrafiello, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026 The true implications of the blast marks on Russia's rocketry ego remained vague.—Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2026 Beyond rocketry, Polidoro points to pharmaceutical research, where scientists may set aside a highly effective compound because of toxicity, explore alternatives, solve the toxicity problem separately, and later return stronger.—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rocketry