retrorocket

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If you take a look at marine turbine's retrorocket, the jet turbine they outfitted in that pickup can do 800 miles to a tank and the engine can be tuned to burn multiple fuels.

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  1. noun A rocket engine used to retard, arrest, or reverse the motion of a vehicle, such as an aircraft, missile, or spacecraft.

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  • The main solid-fuel retrorocket, and all three vernier engines are thrusting properly Now came the tension as to whether that unbalanced, unextended antenna would make Surveyor go into a fatal tip, tumble, or wobble. —  Analog October, 1966
  • If you take a look at marine turbine's retrorocket, the jet turbine they outfitted in that pickup can do 800 miles to a tank and the engine can be tuned to burn multiple fuels. —  Brad Ideas - Comments
  • "We could very well be seeing rock, or we could be seeing exposed ice in the retrorocket blast zone," said Ray Arvidson of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., co-investigator for the robotic arm. —  Skycontrol
  • He assumed a single stage rocket, limited to 1-G acceleration, providing all the energy for the trip, launched vertically, requiring a retrorocket to slow it down when returning, and assuming a very low exhaust velocity for the propellant. —  THE UFO CHRONICLES
 

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