Use "rocket engine" in a sentence
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rocket engine
1. Although, like rocket engines, they still relied on tanks of fuel, in this case liquid xenon gas, they were massively more efficient than their twentieth century predecessors
2. But when the camera zooms in even closer it’s apparent that these are no ordinary hunters—they can fly! There are rocket engines where there should be tails! These hunters will replace the helicopters! A new breed of hunters for a new era!
3. For the last part of the trip, they laid out a “highway” of metal panels taken from the containers and fired the shuttle’s rocket engines to give it the last push up a ramp they had dug into the lake’s edge and lined with container sides
4. We carved rocket engines in the back so we could make the asteroid move toward the intended target
5. There was a sudden roaring blast of the twin rocket engines, and the ZX3 rocketed forward at a great speed and Tanya shouted over the radio
6. The four Harpoon anti-ship missiles stored in their launch boxes above the engine room sympathetically detonated as well from the blast wave of the explosion, adding the force of four 500 pound warheads and four solid propellant rocket engines
7. The missile flew out of its launch tube in a flash, trailing smoke from its rocket engine
8. The torpedo is powered by a rocket engine, and in fact, it floats in a bubble which is created by the deflection, and filled with exhaust gases
9. ‘’If this is indeed an alien ship and if it is propelled by some sort of rocket engine, then it may very well have landed under the control of a computer acting according to preprogrammed directives
10. ‘’I suspected so! Only an anti-matter rocket engine would have the power to propel a ship up to a notable fraction of the speed of light, short of some kind of system that would distort space and time
11. Spirit had then directed the firing of life pods that had then smashed into the pirate ship, disabling it and allowing Tina to finish it by roasting it in the exhaust of her ship’s thermonuclear rocket engines
12. If the space plane is also designed to fly to hypersonic speed on air-breathing engines, you further save on the weight of oxidizer fuel you would normally have to carry when using pure rocket engines
13. You can also more than double the efficiency of your rocket engines within the atmosphere if you place them inside air channeling tubes, in order to use the ram air effect to augment thrust
14. Our Army Ballistic Missile Agency had a rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne, the S-3, able to produce thrusts of up to 150,000 pounds
15. The Marquardt company, which specializes in ramjet engines, is going to pair up with Rocketdyne on a contract I will provide them to design and develop our main integral ramjet/rocket engines
16. Rocketdyne S-3 liquid bipropellant rocket engines will be used, combined with a Marquardt ramjet design, to form an integrated rocket/ramjet engine
17. Use the facilities at White Sands to test your rocket engines
18. The three of them then watched on in tense silence as the first stage of the rocket burned out and separated, with the second stage rocket engine taking over without apparent incident
19. “It probably could have gone higher then, sir, if we had used the two booster rocket engines of the XC-200
20. The two types of rocket engines to be used by our space plane are also still being tested for reliability and multiple restart capability
21. Once high in the stratosphere, the XC-200 will drop the SPS-10A, which will then light up its own rocket engines and climb into orbit
22. That satellite in turn has its own rocket engine that will push it high into what we call a geosynchronous orbit at an altitude of 22,300 miles
23. After the satellite is launched, Lieutenant General Dows will stay in orbit for a while, then will fire her retro-rocket engines in order to slow down and reenter the atmosphere
24. Before you ask, the only thing that I can tell you about them is that the rocket engines use liquid bipropellant fuel
25. “Rocket boosters?” Could only say Murrow before being pushed back in his seat by a sudden and powerful acceleration while the thunderous noise of rocket engines made talking difficult
26. Having expected that but not knowing in advance at what point it would happen since the hurried development and testing of her space plane had precluded doing the required wind tunnel testing, she ignited her Rocketdyne main rocket engines, which were situated in the center of her ramjet engine ducts
27. Her main rocket engines pushed her past Mach 6 as she continued climbing out of Earth’s atmosphere
28. Her main rocket engines were still burning when she broke through the altitude of 121 kilometers, at which time she couldn’t help yell briefly in triumph: she was now officially out of the atmosphere and into space
29. Her main rocket engines finally burned out, out of fuel, leaving her to float silently above Earth
30. Cape Canaveral Control came back on the radio a few minutes after she completed her first orbit of Earth, giving her a precise timing and duration for firing up her orbital rocket engines in order to circularize her orbit
31. Overhead, she saw through her top viewing panel the small rocket engine of the communications satellite light up silently in the vacuum of space
32. Putting back on her space suit, Ingrid then started to do a complete check of her systems, concentrating particularly on her retro-rocket engines
33. She was more than a little pleased at seeing that her space plane’s concept was actually so efficient that there was still a significant amount of propellant left in the tanks of her orbital rocket engines
34. 8 tons of thrust from the two Aerojet rocket engines pushed her back into her seat for an actual burn time of 57 seconds, instead of the expected 55 seconds
35. He was about to join Syd when he heard above the wind the faint roar of a rocket engine
36. It was then, over the noise of the shrieking wind, he heard something that aroused in him anger and hatred, laced with terror — the faint roar of a rocket engine
37. He could see nothing, but the sound of the rocket engine was noticeably closer
38. He could no longer hear the rocket engine
39. Overhead, the shriek and roar of rocket engines diminished as the last of the Guardian ships fell crashing in flames
40. Of a huge multi-storied rocket engine test tower located on a
41. Gamma rays strike the bottom half of the interceptor and destroy the electronics that control the rocket engines
