especially: an engine (such as a jet engine) that develops thrust by expelling a jet of fluid or a stream of particles
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These changes include new seals to plug helium leaks and thermal shunts and barriers to keep the spacecraft's thrusters from overheating.—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025 Each Voyager has a set of primary thrusters that control movement in all directions as well as smaller thrusters for what is called roll control.—Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025 According to Kim, Elytra will be equipped with the same systems used in the Blue Ghost landing — including the reaction control system thrusters that successfully performed Blue Ghost's final descent to the moon — for the Sinequone mission.—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 To avoid this, the engineers spent March of this year coaxing the secondary thrusters back to life.—David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for thruster
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