Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word RETROROCKET
RETROROCKET
Definitions of RETROROCKET
- A small rocket engine on a larger rocket or spacecraft, designed to slow or reverse its motion.
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using RETROROCKET in a Sentence
- 1 m high and consisted of a lunar capsule covered with a balsawood impact-limiter, 65 cm in diameter, a mono-propellant mid-course motor, a retrorocket with a thrust of , and a gold and chrome plated hexagonal base 1.
- It was launched in on 3 December 1965 with the objective of achieving a soft landing on the Moon; however, its retrorocket firing occurred too late, and suffered a hard impact on the lunar surface on the Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms).
- An improvised landing sequence which started the retrorocket just 42 km above the Moon (about half the usual height) allowed the vernier engines to bring the craft down in 106 seconds from a height of only 1340 m (about 10% of the usual).
- Deorbiting would be induced by the missile's retrorocket, the RD-854 engine, causing the warhead to take on a ballistic path towards its target.
- A Thiokol retrorocket was mounted at the end of the afterbody to decelerate the capsule out of orbit.
- Major system components were the parasail, drogue parachute, retrorocket, control system, and landing rocket.
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