Sentence examples for propulsive landing from inspiring English sources
Musk and his colleagues at SpaceX see precise, propulsive landing as integral to the next generation of spaceflight, following the shuttle's wings and landing gear and the earliest parachute landings on water.
As the rocket descends, SpaceX will relight the engines three times for a propulsive landing with thrusters: once to adjust the point of impact, again to slow the rocket to 250 meters per second, and finally for the landing burn, during which the rocket's legs will deploy and the rocket will slow to about two meters per second.
Rather than a propulsive landing, Boeing's capsule will parachute to an airbag-cushioned landing.
Crew Dragon (also known as Dragon 2) won't have propulsive landing capabilities, however, as was planned on an earlier roadmap.
The company has noted that a propulsive landing strategy is an important capability if you ever want to land humans on a planet without an ocean, like Mars.
SpaceX has noted that they are working toward propulsive landing because it is a necessary capability if you ever want to land humans on a planet without oceans, like Mars for example.
The booster was directed back to the Earth where it made a propulsive soft landing.
Rockets designed for accurate propulsive landings would also increase the ability of research missions, like Esa's Rosetta comet mission or Nasa's Mars rovers, to land safely in remote places – if not necessarily to return.
The absence of atmosphere on the planet forces the adoption of a purely propulsive descent and landing system.
The other 26 test flights are projected to take off from a pad: eight to be propulsive assist hops (landing with parachutes plus thrusters) and 18 to be full propulsive hops, similar to the Grasshopper and F9R Dev booster stage test flights.
Navigation, control and guidance of the propulsive phase of planetary landing, e.g. on Mars (or the Moon), with a soft landing being the only target, are driven by Inertial Measurement Units and a radar altimeter/velocimeter.
