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Rocket Reentry Stock Photos

Browse 169 rocket reentry photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

The SS-20, known as the 'Pioneer' in Russian, is a two-stage, solid propellant missile with three multiple targetable reentry warheads. The missile...

Missile, Russia, War

Pakistan test fire Ababeel surface-to-surface ballistic missile , in Pakistan, on January 24, 2017. Ababeel has a maximum range of 2,200 kilometres...

Ababeel surface-to-surface ballistic missile

Pakistan, Missile, Technology

Wheeler Island, Odisha, India the all important re-entry vehicle India successfully launches its longest range nuclear weapon capable...

India's longest range missile

Missile, Nuclear Weapon, Strategy

The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on May 27, 2025. SpaceX mission control lost contact with...

TOPSHOT-US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-SPACEX-STARSHIP

SpaceX, SpaceX Starship, Texas

The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on May 27, 2025. SpaceX mission control lost contact with...

US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-SPACEX-STARSHIP

SpaceX, Taking Off - Activity, SpaceX Starship

People wait on South Padre Island to watch the SpaceX Starship rocket launch from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. SpaceX mission control lost...

US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-SPACEX-STARSHIP

SpaceX, SpaceX Starship

The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on May 27, 2025. SpaceX mission control lost contact with...

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SpaceX, South Padre Island, Rocketship

The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on May 27, 2025. SpaceX mission control lost contact with...

US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-SPACEX-STARSHIP

SpaceX, SpaceX Starship, Rocketship

Spectators pose in front of parachutes for the re-entry module of the Shenzhou 13 manned spacecraft at the Science Center in Beijing, China, Sept 16,...

National Science Popularization Day Held In Beijing

The rusable first stage of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket performs its reentry following a launch from Launch Site One in West Texas north of Van...

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Blue Origin, Outer Space

The rusable first stage of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket performs its reentry following a launch from Launch Site One in West Texas north of Van...

US-SPACE-BLUEORIGIN

Blue Origin, Rocketship, Outer Space

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Pallava Bagla testing the heat resistant material used on the missile re-entry with a welding or blow torch on one...

Inside India's missile lab

Handout picture made available by SpaceX on 22 December 2015 shows a nine-minute exposure picture of the launch, re-entry, and landing burns of...

SpaceX successfully lands its first reusable rocket

SpaceX, Rocketship

Handout picture made available by SpaceX on 22 December 2015 shows a nine-minute exposure picture of the launch, re-entry, and landing burns of...

SpaceX successfully lands its first reusable rocket

SpaceX, Rocketship

SpaceX flags fly as people wait on South Padre Island to watch the SpaceX Starship rocket launch from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. SpaceX...

US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-SPACEX-STARSHIP

SpaceX, SpaceX Starship

The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on May 27, 2025. SpaceX mission control lost contact with...

US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-SPACEX-STARSHIP

SpaceX, SpaceX Starship, Texas

Photographers record the Artemis-1 rocket as it rolls out from the Vehicle Assembly Building en route to Launch Pad 39B shortly after midnight at the...

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Taking Off - Activity

Press photographers set up to over the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 29, 2022....

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The rusable first stage of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket performs its reentry following a launch from Launch Site One in West Texas north of Van...

US-SPACE-BLUEORIGIN

Blue Origin, Outer Space, Space Mission

The rusable first stage of the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket performs its reentry following a launch from Launch Site One in West Texas north of Van...

US-SPACE-BLUEORIGIN

Blue Origin, Rocketship, New Shepard

Reentry" - Pictured: LL COOL J and Chris O'Donnell . Callen, Sam and Nell travel to the Angeles Forest to search for pieces of a failed rocket...

NCIS: Los Angeles

Reentry" - Pictured: Eric Christian Olsen and Daniela Ruah . Callen, Sam and Nell travel to the Angeles Forest to search for pieces of a failed...

NCIS: Los Angeles

Reentry" - Pictured: Barrett Foa , Daniela Ruah and Eric Christian Olsen . Callen, Sam and Nell travel to the Angeles Forest to search for pieces of...

NCIS: Los Angeles

Reentry" - Pictured: Linda Hunt . Callen, Sam and Nell travel to the Angeles Forest to search for pieces of a failed rocket launch, including a...

NCIS: Los Angeles

Reentry" - Pictured: Jeff Kober and Linda Hunt . Callen, Sam and Nell travel to the Angeles Forest to search for pieces of a failed rocket launch,...

NCIS: Los Angeles

Reentry" - Pictured: Jeff Kober and Linda Hunt . Callen, Sam and Nell travel to the Angeles Forest to search for pieces of a failed rocket launch,...

NCIS: Los Angeles

The Black Knight ballistic vehicle was used to test prototype re-entry heads for the proposed Blue Streak strategic missile. This head is made of...

Black Knight re-entry head, c 1960.

The Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Company developed this engine between 1955 and 1957 for the first Black Knight test vehicles. It burned kerosene fuel...

Gamma 201 rocket engine, c 1957.

The Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Company developed this engine between 1955 and 1957 for the first Black Knight test vehicles. It burned kerosene fuel...

Gamma 201 rocket engine, c 1957.

Model . The initial Black Knight vehicles were single-stage rockets designed to test prototype re-entry heads for the proposed Blue Streak strategic...

Black Knight test vehicle, c 1957.

Model . On 12th April 1961 Yuri Gagarin was launched into orbit by a Vostok rocket and became the first man in space. The craft was controlled from...

Vostok 1, 1961.

Model . On 12th April 1961 Yuri Gagarin was launched into orbit by a Vostok rocket and became the first man in space. The craft was controlled from...

Vostok 1 capsule, 1961.

Re-entry head with tape machine, c 1960s. This re-entry head with tape machine was used for data recording, and is an example of the type used on the...

Re-entry head with tape machine, c 1960s. T

Air force crew demonstrate ability to lift shroud above warheads inside Lowry Hanger built for MX missile maintenance instruction. Shroud covers what...

Denver Post Archives

Oglesby Family 'Team' Helps Get the Job Done Watching Mrs. Oglesby grade papers are sons Dale, Lance and Randy. Student on Tour of Edwards Air Force...

Denver Post Archives

Guide in Mongolian costume introduces the carrier rocket for Shenzhou-6 to the tourists at a scenic spot on September 20, 2008 in Hohhot of the Inner...

Launching Of Shenzhou VII Spacecraft Boosts Tourism In Inner Mongolia

Guide in Mongolian costume introduces the carrier rocket for Shenzhou-6 to the tourists at a scenic spot on September 20, 2008 in Hohhot of the Inner...

Launching Of Shenzhou VII Spacecraft Boosts Tourism In Inner Mongolia

Zhang Qingwei, a rocket expert and Deputy Commander-in-chief of China Manned Space Program , and Liu Jingmin , Executive Vice President of the...

Shenzhou VI Re-entry Capsule Opened In Beijing

Scientist wearing protective goggles as he observes the effects of intense heat on a missile nose cone, as part of reasearch on re-entry into earths...

A scientist wearing protective goggles as he

Missile, 1950-1959, Science

Still from CBS news coverage shows American sailor and astronaut Alan B. Shepard as he emerges from the Freedom 7 space capsule onto the flight deck...

Shepard Emerges From Mercury Capsule

1960-1969, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Aeroplane

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Pallava Bagla testing the heat resistant material used on the missile re-entry with a welding or blow torch on one...

Inside India's missile lab

The Apollo spacecraft that will be launched by the first Saturn- 5 moon rocket this spring was fitted to the top of the booster 1/12 in its towering...

View of the Apollo Spacecraft

Los Angeles: The X-15 rocket ship will soon sport a new "hot nose" as shown here, replacing the needle nose used for earlier flights. The new nose is...

Neil Armstrong Observing New "Hot Nose"

The first Apollo spacecraft, since the Apollo 1 "death ship" in which three astronauts died January 27th, is lowered atop a Saturn-5 moon rocket here...

View of Apollo Spacecraft

Apollo 13 flight controllers study a map of the South Pacific deciding the exact point for which to aim Apollo 13 during its crucial re-entry 4/17....

Apollo 13 Flight Controllers Study Map

Missile nose cone being tested with intense heat, as part of reasearch on re-entry into earths atmosphere from space.

A missile nose cone being tested with in

Los Angeles, CA A view of some of the over 20,000 thermal tiles that shielded the space shuttle Endeavour's lightweight aluminum body from the 2,732°...

Endeavour preview at Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center

rocket reentry night sky lighting - rocket reentry stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

rocket reentry night sky lighting

rocket reentry night sky lighting - rocket reentry stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

rocket reentry night sky lighting

Map of Indian ocean around the Maldives showing location where debris from a large segment of a Chinese rocket landed after disintegrating on...

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Possible trajectories of the main stage of the Chinese rocket that is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere

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Possible trajectories of the main stage of the Chinese rocket that is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere

CHINA-US-SPACE-DEFENCE-ROCKET

Person watches a broadcast of the Artemis II splashdown on a mobile phone in Guwahati, India, on April 11, 2026. NASA's Orion spacecraft, carrying...

Artemis II Splashdown

Person watches a broadcast of the Artemis II splashdown on a television in Guwahati, India, on April 11, 2026. NASA's Orion spacecraft, carrying the...

Artemis II Splashdown

An infographic titled "Artemis II" created in Ankara, Turkiye on April 2, 2026. First crewed test flight to the Moon since Apollo.

Huntsville, Ala. Adult Space Academy trainees anxiously watch to see if their heat shield protects their raw egg from the heat of re-entry into...

Freelance, Washington Post, Space camp, U.S. Space & Rocket Center,

The Washington Post

Huntsville, Ala. Adult Space Academy trainees anxiously watch to see if their heat shield protects their raw egg from the heat of re-entry into...

Freelance, Washington Post, Space camp, U.S. Space & Rocket Center,

Bird stands near people waiting on South Padre Island to watch the SpaceX Starship rocket launch from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. SpaceX...

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Texas, SpaceX Starship

Plume of exhaust from the rocket boosters is left behind after the SpaceX Starship rocket launched from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre...

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SpaceX Starship

People wait on South Padre Island to watch the SpaceX Starship rocket launch from Starbase, Texas, on May 27, 2025. SpaceX mission control lost...

US-SPACE-AEROSPACE-SPACEX-STARSHIP