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Careful monitoring of trajectory can allow operators to fire the satellites’ thrusters in appropriate bursts, preventing orbits from decaying due to atmospheric drag.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 May 2024
Vibrations and torques exerted by altitude-control thrusters, plus the pressure of solar radiation on the massive sail-like arrays, will continually bend and twist the station this way and that.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
At 7:25 on Tuesday morning, Houston time, McCandless fired the thrusters of his jetpack, rose slowly from Challenger’s cargo bay and flew clear of the spacecraft.
—Adam Higginbotham, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024
The Starliner also is equipped with a fully manual backup system that allows the crew to directly command the ship's thrusters using a joystick-like hand controller, bypassing the spacecraft's flight computers.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 7 May 2024
The spacecraft successfully docked with the I.S.S. during its second test flight in 2022, despite the failure of some thrusters during the launch.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 6 May 2024
Putting thrusters on the tether wasn’t even the craziest idea.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
Regarding power, the newcomer is equipped with twin MAN V-12 engines and two 50 kW electric bow thrusters that enable a maximum speed of 17 knots and a cruising speed of 15 knots.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
The current design of Zipline’s Platform 2 Droid is built around a large thruster in the rear and two smaller thrusters at the front and back.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 May 2024
Vibrations and torques exerted by altitude-control thrusters, plus the pressure of solar radiation on the massive sail-like arrays, will continually bend and twist the station this way and that.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
At 7:25 on Tuesday morning, Houston time, McCandless fired the thrusters of his jetpack, rose slowly from Challenger’s cargo bay and flew clear of the spacecraft.
—Adam Higginbotham, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2024
The Starliner also is equipped with a fully manual backup system that allows the crew to directly command the ship's thrusters using a joystick-like hand controller, bypassing the spacecraft's flight computers.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 7 May 2024
The spacecraft successfully docked with the I.S.S. during its second test flight in 2022, despite the failure of some thrusters during the launch.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 6 May 2024
Putting thrusters on the tether wasn’t even the craziest idea.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
Regarding power, the newcomer is equipped with twin MAN V-12 engines and two 50 kW electric bow thrusters that enable a maximum speed of 17 knots and a cruising speed of 15 knots.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
The current design of Zipline’s Platform 2 Droid is built around a large thruster in the rear and two smaller thrusters at the front and back.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
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thruster
noun
thrust·er
ˈthrəs-tər 
: one that thrusts
especially
: an engine that produces thrust by discharging a jet of fluid or a stream of particles
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