Sentence examples for propellant for 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).

One propellant for stock prices has been the steep decline in interest rates.

A subtler propellant for late-night TV has been the rivalry between Leno and Letterman.

Hydrogen has been used as a primary rocket fuel for combustion with oxygen or fluorine and is favoured as a propellant for nuclear-powered rockets and space vehicles.

The water could be taken to supply stopovers for future astronauts or broken down into breathable oxygen or propellant for spacecraft on interplanetary missions.

I pass the spot where, on a boiling hot afternoon – 26 July 2007 – Rutan's team was testing rocket propellant for Virgin Galactic when a tank of nitrous oxide exploded.

A large external tank carried the liquid-oxygen and liquid-hydrogen propellants for the orbiter's three powerful engines.

As a nonreactive gas, nitrogen is employed to make foamed or expanded rubber, plastics, and elastomers, to serve as a propellant gas for aerosol cans, and to pressurize liquid propellants for reaction jets.

Propellants for solid-rocket motors are made from a wide variety of substances, selected for low cost, acceptable safety, and high performance.

In a statement, the Treasury under secretary responsible for sanctions, David S. Cohen, said SAD had also supplied material to Syrian military manufacturers of propellants for rockets, missiles and mortars.

Her consulting, according to an interview for the Society of Women Engineers that the Post linked to, involved FMC's work with ARPA, the forerunner to DARPA, on rocket propellants, for which she needed and obtained a security clearance.