"engine" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Then the spent boosters are jettisoned, and the liquid-fuel engines supply the final thrust toward orbit.
- Cost Estimate of $1.25 Billion In its simplest form, engineers said, a heavy-lift booster based on current systems would be some combination of the solid-fuel rockets and liquid-fuel engines of the shuttle but in a configuration with a large payload canister in place of the manned orbiter.
- For example, the shuttle's main liquid-fuel engines, for their size the most powerful on earth, undergo repeated trial runs on the ground, and several have exploded in tests that mimic the strains of typical missions.
- Rockwell's Rocketdyne division is the nation's largest manufacturer of liquid-fuel engines of the type used on large rockets.
- Several modifications were made to the liquid-fuel engines while the shuttles were grounded after the Challenger accident.
- If Admirial Truly and James C. Fletcher, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, agree, the Discovery will undergo a practice countdown ending in a 20-second firing of the three main liquid-fuel engines while bolted to the launching pad.
- Dynetics' entry uses a liquid-fuel engine, the F-1B, based on the Rocketdyne F-1 which powered the first stage of the Saturn V rocket.
- The project to develop the rocket was proceeding smoothly until last year, when one of the liquid-fuel engines blew up.
- Marshall had been in charge of developing the liquid-fuel engines that put Apollo astronauts on the moon in 1969.
- Meanwhile, the succeeding stage may have ullage rockets, both to aid separation and ensure good starting of liquid-fuel engines.
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