Sentence examples for propellant it from inspiring English sources

Agena used hypergolic propellant; it was also combined with the Atlas and Titan first stages on a number of subsequent missions.

The plans are for Cassini to keep working for seven more years, but it currently has only 22 percent of the maneuvering propellant it had when it started.

The igniter consists of a container of material like a metal oxidizer mixture that is more easily and quickly ignited than the propellant; it is initiated by an electric squib or other externally energized means.

In a composite solid propellant, it is desirable to have energetic groups in a binder that contribute to the combustion characteristics.

Although N-methyl-P-nitroaniline (MNA) was a quite effective stabilizer in composite modified double base (CMDB) propellants, it undergoes crystallization easily from nitroglycerin (NG) during storage.

Cut into flakes, this made an excellent propellant, and it continued in use for over 75 years.

The subsequent investigation determined that the explosion was probably the result of spontaneous combustion of the nitrocellulose-based propellant as it decomposed.

Ammonal provided the propellant charge, it was placed behind the barrel and, when triggered, caused the barrel to rupture and shoot a jet of flame 10 feet wide and 30 yards long.

Place stiff fuse in the wet propellant so it sticks straight up.

I found out quite recently that when a synchronous satellite runs out of its propellant — which keeps it over the right spot on earth — it drifts along this equatorial orbit to two low spots in the earth's gravitational field.

The effect on burning rate of encapsulating the catalyst inside the fine AP crystals compared to propellants where it is added to the binder is also investigated.