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- noun Plural form of
retrorocket .
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As the retrorockets fired, Culbert began to think of the 52 men that volunteered to stay the extra week to give the comet one last nudge.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The sky crane is to detach from the larger spacecraft after it enters Mars atmosphere about a mile from the planet's surface, firing retrorockets to bring the rover to a gentle landing.
William Bradley: A Sublime and Ridiculous Day: Mars Mission and AfPak Debacle William Bradley 2011
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If all goes well, Spirit and Opportunity will arrive on time, on target and intact, thanks to some sharp navigating, a big parachute, some retrorockets and giant airbags.
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He later left Earth's orbit on Friendship 7 protected from what he feared was sure incineration by the straps of his retrorockets.
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He later left Earth's orbit on Friendship 7 protected from what he feared was sure incineration by the straps of his retrorockets.
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Just before touchdown, the Soyuz fires a set of retrorockets to slow its landing even more before coming to a jarring stop on the ground.
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Just before touchdown, the Soyuz fires a set of retrorockets to slow its landing even more before coming to a jarring stop on the ground.
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Just before touchdown, the Soyuz fires a set of retrorockets to slow its landing even more before coming to a jarring stop on the ground.
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And congratulations to Aerojet Redmond, which built the retrorockets for the lander .... by Stefan Sharkansky, 02: 15 PM, 21 Comments "Mistake sends raw sewage into Ravenna Creek" An estimated 8 million gallons of raw sewage has poured into Ravenna Creek after county crews mistakenly diverted it into a Seattle storm drain, a King County spokeswoman said Saturday.
Sound Politics 2009
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Just as human engineers control devices ranging from dimmer switches to retrorockets using pulsed -- or frequency modulated (FM) -- signals, cells tune the expression of groups of genes using discrete bursts of activation.
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