Ending a string of costly and embarrassing failures, Japan launched an advanced rocket capable of carrying commercial satellites into orbit.

Then, if a more advanced rocket is also deemed necessary, Mr. Mabry said, it, too, could be opened to competition.

The advanced French antitank rockets, still in wooden cases, appeared new.

Could have ridden in on a nuclear rocket not much more advanced than our own.

According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1,300 tons of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza.

Mr. Berg said the space agency expected to release a formal request for final industry proposals for the advanced rocket in late June.

Early in the sixteenth century, Wan decided to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space.

But it seeks to foster that industry by promoting further research into advanced rockets that would cost less and be more reliable, rather than by using trade barriers.

But if North Korea expects other countries to provide it with advanced rockets it could learn to copy, the risks are unacceptable.

A series of more advanced rocket propelled projectiles in the HARP project.