What is "propellants"

Usage examples of "propellants".

The fuel system was surprisingly complicated, elaborate, a system of huge pipes, fountains of supercold liquid propellants cascading into combustion chambers as hot as the sun.

Ullage: small rockets firing around the base of the stack, settling the propellants before the main burn.

The Apollo spacecraft's reaction control system also ruptured, and a hypergolic burn of its propellants occurred.

If it could be shown that propellants and oxidizers for the return journey could be manufactured on Mars, the weight and costs of future trips there could be cut by more than half.

Eight small solid-fuel rockets, clustered around the base of the MS-II, had given the booster a small shove, helping the propellants settle in their tanks.

The point is to get a nice smooth flame front, where the propellants burn at a uniform temperature, right across the face of the injector plate, all three feet of it.

The regulators which controlled the flow of propellants into the Saturn's stages kept throwing up problems.

And every time the countdown test hit a problem and had to be stopped, the propellants guys had to stay in the Firing Room and detank, a process even more tedious than tanking.

Even at the start of its tour, the total the propellants could have delivered had been about five thousand miles per hour.

Those tests confirm that the device, which we are calling the Trigger, detonates or destroys nitrate-based explosives and propellants at a distance.

It'd be so much better if we could find some way to tune it so high explosives just fizzle the way propellants do.

The first was about system safety, and from it they had learned that the Jl test article did not destabilize live explosives and propellants the way a Trigger did.

You counted on your new explosives and new propellants to preserve the status quo, and you didn't prepare for the possibility of being wrong.

While they did so, specialist teams of technicians and robots attached bulky ovoid tanks of propellants around the aft end of each craft.

More important, water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen, which can be used for rocket propellants, which could cut in half the tonnages needed to be sent off Earth for any future missions to Mars.