where does the carrier of a rocket go after the rocket took off?

Answer 1

For military rockets? The casing is usually disposable, and doubles as packing crate and launch tube.

Some launchers have reusable racks or pods, with tubes. Mostly used on aircraft.

For NASA type rockets, that vehicle goes back to the hangar to pick up the next rocket.

Answer 2

(Above, all the engines on the shuttle are re-used, the only part that isn't is the external tank and that doesn't have any engines)

It depends.

Air to air weapons like the AIM-9 Sidewinder and ASRAAM launch by running along a rail under their rocket power, the rail is simply re-used by slotting another weapon onto it.

Bigger weapons line AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-120 AMRAAM, Harpoon, Sea Eagle, HARM, ALARM and any number of other heavy weapons, as launched from an Ejecter Release Unit or ERU, the ERU hold onto the weapon with hooks which are released by the same gas pressure that powers the gas rams which eject the munition. ERUs can be throttled and can impart 10 m/s or so to a 1000Kg weapon.

Anti tank rockets are typically tube launched, the tube is usually a wound composite and is usually just discarded after use. The aiming and firing equipment is typically reused by being reloaded with another tubed missile. The British LAW-80 is unusual in a couple of ways, the aiming and firing unit is integral to the tube and the missile destroys the wound Kevlar tube as it is fired, this renders it useless as the basis of an improvised weapon.

Air to ground rockets, like the Zuni, are fired from reloadable packs.

MLRS is tube launched, as are some of the big strategic missiles like Polaris and Trident. Other artillery missiles like the Honest John, Frog and Scud are rail launched as are most heavy surface to air missiles in Naval and Air Force service (HAWK, Standard, Sea Dart etc.). Recently even the heavyweight anti aircraft missiles have tended to be tube launched.

Answer 3

Back to the hangar or back in the submarine. Most via-ducts for the primary rocket will go back to the home-base after launch. Most efficient and affordable way to handle a lift-off.

Answer 4

The British and Germans had early JATO in 1942, but the U.S. did not. In the U.S., JATO research began in 1939 but I don't believe they started appearing on aircraft until the 1950s, when the Air Force started experimenting with them on Republic F-84s.

Answer 5

if you are talking about the solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle, for example, after they fall back in the ocean, a little after 2 minutes after takeoff, they are recovered by boats, sent back to their assembly plant and refurbished for the next flight. the boosters are the only reusable engines on rockets

Answer 6

Carrier heaven.

Answer 7

Huh?