"sounding rocket" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rocketry",
          "orig": "en:Rocketry",
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            "Applied sciences",
            "Space",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Vehicles",
          "orig": "en:Vehicles",
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            "Machines",
            "Transport",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "glosses": [
        "A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "space science",
          "space science"
        ],
        [
          "suborbital",
          "suborbital"
        ],
        [
          "rocket",
          "rocket"
        ],
        [
          "atmosphere",
          "atmosphere"
        ],
        [
          "exoatmospheric",
          "exoatmospheric"
        ],
        [
          "microgravity",
          "microgravity"
        ],
        [
          "sonde",
          "sonde"
        ],
        [
          "probe",
          "probe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(space science) A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aerospace",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "space-science"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tànkōng huǒjiàn",
          "sense": "rocket",
          "word": "探空火箭"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "rocket",
          "word": "luotainraketti"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "rocket",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "sondraket"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sounding rocket"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sounding rocket"
}

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      "glosses": [
        "A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "space science",
          "space science"
        ],
        [
          "suborbital",
          "suborbital"
        ],
        [
          "rocket",
          "rocket"
        ],
        [
          "atmosphere",
          "atmosphere"
        ],
        [
          "exoatmospheric",
          "exoatmospheric"
        ],
        [
          "microgravity",
          "microgravity"
        ],
        [
          "sonde",
          "sonde"
        ],
        [
          "probe",
          "probe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(space science) A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aerospace",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "space-science"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sounding rocket"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tànkōng huǒjiàn",
      "sense": "rocket",
      "word": "探空火箭"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rocket",
      "word": "luotainraketti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "rocket",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sondraket"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sounding rocket"
}