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Essentially, a nuclear rocket engine is a reactor that has hydrogen running through it as a propellant, which is heated to an astonishing 3,000 K (2,727 °C, 4,940 °F), giving it almost twice the efficiency in terms of thrust and specific impulse as a chemical rocket.
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David Szondy
september 10, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2025
No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred as the Starship spacecraft was standing alone on the test stand being filled with cryogenic propellants for an engine test-firing before being mounted on top of the rocket booster.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
SpaceX is aiming for a structural ratio—the dry mass divided by the sum of the dry mass and the propellant—of 0.05 for both stages.
—Adam Rogers, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
For instance, a seal on the vehicle’s Raptor engines began to fail after SpaceX started adding more propellant on later flights, according to a person briefed on the matter who was not authorized to discuss the program’s inner workings publicly.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025
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David Szondy
september 10, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2025
No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred as the Starship spacecraft was standing alone on the test stand being filled with cryogenic propellants for an engine test-firing before being mounted on top of the rocket booster.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
SpaceX is aiming for a structural ratio—the dry mass divided by the sum of the dry mass and the propellant—of 0.05 for both stages.
—Adam Rogers, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
For instance, a seal on the vehicle’s Raptor engines began to fail after SpaceX started adding more propellant on later flights, according to a person briefed on the matter who was not authorized to discuss the program’s inner workings publicly.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for propellant
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The Russian President said the plan is to develop the world’s first nuclear power system with a closed fuel cycle in the Tomsk region by 2030.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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The hope is that money from the state — a few million dollars perhaps, but the amount has not been set — will provide major fuel to the effort.—
Alan J. Borsuk,
jsonline.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Beneath me, one by one, logs are added to a nest of kindling in the hearth.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Now, all that kindling is dry following the long, arid months of summer.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Nightly entertainment, including magic shows and live music, brings energy to the evenings.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Hall plays Rosenkrantz and Ben Whishaw plays Hujar, who offers a detailed account of his previous day’s activity, involving such idiosyncratic eminences as Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg—and the sorts of gamesmanship and intimate tensions that ensnare and frustrate artistic energies.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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China's carbon dioxide emissions from its power sector fell by almost 3% during the first half of this year as its growth in solar power matched the rise in electricity demand.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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For me, the camera has a unique power in guiding me toward visualising complex, sometimes uncomfortable emotions that resist being pinned down by language.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Propellant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propellant. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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