Sentence examples for conventional propellant from inspiring English sources

DE-STARLITE uses conventional propellant for launch to LEO and then ion engines to propel the spacecraft from LEO to the near-Earth asteroid (NEA).

The Raptor engine uses a less conventional propellant than the Merlin engine SpaceX developed to power its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

Because the fuel produces a mixture of water vapour, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen, it is also more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants, which belch out ammonium perchlorate and aluminium.The ability to pop into, and out of, the Earth's atmosphere relatively cheaply in craft like SpaceShipOne could also provide a way of shipping cargoes from one place to another.

Potential applications for RMs include additives to conventional energetics (propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics) and reactive structural components.

MICs can be used to fabricate an insert element which is assembled into the conventional solid propellants.

While shedding light on green space propulsion, the development of non-toxic hypergolic bipropellants has provided alternatives to the conventional, highly toxic propellants.

Therefore, it would be able to take off with much less total propellant than conventional systems.

It weighed about 450 kg, and used Cordite, a conventional artillery smokeless powder, as propellant.

Compared to conventional rocket transport, much less propellant is required by the designed system with reusability.

Propellants are unlike conventional fuels in that their combustion does not require atmospheric oxygen.

The TAN concept overcomes conventional engine limitations by injecting propellants and combusting in an annular region in the divergent section of the nozzle.