There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

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One of the small rockets of his automatic control system stopped working.

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It would use one of several dependable military rockets to launch a small, one-man spacecraft.

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Lebanon's state news agency said the rockets were 107-millimeter Grad rockets, a type of small rocket Lebanese officials said have been fired before from south Lebanon into Israel.

WSJ: Rockets Hit Hezbollah Strongholds in Beirut

And if Ares is cancelled another winner may be SpaceX, a small Californian firm that is building a series of rockets called Falcon.

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But these rockets also have in them, I picked up today at the scene, you know, lots of small metal balls.

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