1.   That upsets some anti-nuclear activists, who claim that a rocket explosion could spew cancer-causing radioactivity into the atmosphere.

2.   The agency also put the units in impact-resistant cases that it said were designed to withstand a rocket explosion.

3.   The company was under investigation by the Justice Department for passing along sensitive rocket technology to China following a previous rocket explosion that destroyed one of its satellites.

4.   Usually, investigations into the cause of rocket explosions are shrouded in secrecy, especially when the booster or payload is military.

5.   Kazak Environmental Protection Minister Serikbek Daukeyev said Thursday that the rocket explosion had showered a large area of central Kazakastan with rocket fuel, the Interfax news agency reported.

6.   No soldiers were injured in the rocket explosion near the town of Khost.

7.   None of the troops was injured in the rocket explosion near the town of Khost.

8.   Occasional bursts of automatic rifle fire, mortar fire, and rocket explosions showed that while fighting had stopped in most areas, pockets of resistance remained.

9.   Reporters pressed von Merveldt to elaborate, and he admitted a U.N. military officer had heard the sound of a helicopter followed by a rocket explosion.