| The helmsman fired the aft thrusters again, moving the Columbia from a dead stop to full acceleration. |
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| They used the thrusters, over several months, to nudge the satellite into a geosynchronous Earth orbit. |
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| Entirely staffed by young thrusters and perpetual Peter Pans, television is simply not a grown-up medium. |
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| Hatch thrusters propel the hatch on the shuttle away from the main shuttle body. |
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| A loud whoop was briefly transmitted from the ship before the only sound was the thrum of the thrusters as the captain throttled them back down. |
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| He controls the spacecraft's attitude jets and thrusters, while the engineer keeps a lookout and pays attention to the timing. |
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| The shadower fired its maneuvering thrusters at full power as it tried to effect an erratic evasive pattern. |
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| The vessel is fitted with two pairs of active stabilising fins and twin rudders and has bow and stern thrusters. |
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| This guidance system reads gyroscopes and accelerometers and sends appropriate commands to attitude control thrusters. |
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| The craft was streamlined, probably capable of atmospheric flight, with twin thrusters to either side of the aft section of the fuselage. |
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| The ship's prow swung ponderously away from the Aurora Borealis, and her main thrusters fired to accelerate her away from the liner. |
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| Both Mars rovers came into their landings faster than expected, only just decelerating in time even with the benefit of braking thrusters. |
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| Firing the various thrusters in brief bursts, Brett slowed the rotating motion of the elevator around its axis. |
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| Next, he explored a different aesthetic with less prominent fins, visible rocket thrusters, and less visible similarity to marine life. |
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| The assault landing thrusters begin to kick in, a loudly whine of complaint against too rapid a fall under fierce gravity. |
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| Using small thrusters, the spacecraft will rotate so that the solar panels are oriented perpendicular to the Sun. |
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| There are a few surfers out on mals, bodyboards, and thrusters, but there's plenty of room for all. |
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| Some of the mines move using rocket thrusters, others use a hopping mechanism and hold enough fuel to make 100 leaps. |
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| The thrusters have sufficient power to sustain the ship speed at a constant 6 knots. |
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| The two LIPS Z drive azimuth thrusters are fitted with fixed-pitch reversing propellers. |
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| It has twelve computer-operated thrusters which enable the ship to maintain position to within 1 m even in heavy seas. |
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| The ship has two retractable thrusters for manoeuvring and position keeping. |
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| Another application is analysis of plume impingement, the effects of firing of thrusters by one spacecraft on another spacecraft nearby. |
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| Other features, such as a telescope and finely tuned thrusters, enable the spacecraft to stay exactly oriented on a distant star. |
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| After one and a half orbits the Saturn thrusters fired and the astronauts began their odyssey. |
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| At intervals, the ATV will also use its thrusters to boost the Station's altitude. |
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| The long-lived spacecraft keeps itself pointed correctly by firing small thrusters fueled by hydrazine gas. |
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| The Busek Company will provide a set of miniature ion thrusters capable of controlling spacecraft position with extremely fine precision. |
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| These thrusters allowed the spacecraft to modify their orbits with less propellant than is the case with chemical engines. |
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| But ion thrusters and ordinary rocket engines part ways in their choice of propellant and their source of the energy that accelerates it. |
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| Proper lateral guidance, or guidance around the cylinder, is ensured by small rockets called thrusters. |
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| He tapped away at the keyboard, trying to override the computer so he could use the thrusters. |
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| The helmsman engaged the ship's main thrusters for about two seconds, sending the Hiawatha slowly into the wormhole. |
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| Powered by 2 diesels of 8160 hp with a computer-controlled variable pitch propellor and stern and bow thrusters, her cruise speed is12 knots. |
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| The bow thrusters on board both vessels were rendered ineffective due to the increased speed of both vessels. |
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| The pilot's forward visibility was obscured by the bow thrusters and the reflection of the searchlight on the water spray. |
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| It was a pod that was streamlined for speed and 4 thrusters to propel it. |
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| They crammed 12 of these thrusters into a next-generation pogo stick, and thus was born the Flybar 1200-a device with a simply awesome amount of power. |
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| The thrusters have the delicate task of maneuvering a weightless satellite that can tip the scales at up to 5,000 pounds on Earth. |
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| The device can turn on itself and move sidewise, 2 thrusters move it quickly on depth. |
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| Dual controls for the bow thrusters are immediately in front of each forward seat. |
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| It could have these beautiful die-cast parts, and little L. E. D.s where the thrusters are. |
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| Dr Renno thinks that when the craft settled, its thrusters melted some of the ice and the resulting mud splashed onto the leg. |
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| The hybrid maneuver planning tool is used to plan the stationkeeping maneuvers for a satellite equipped with both chemical and ion thrusters. |
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| Propulsion system upgrade or replacement including gearboxes, propellers, bow thrusters, etc. |
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| Sudden torque applications of propulsion devices such as thrusters or waterjets, need to be considered when designing the coupling connection. |
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| In the past, boat anchors have struck the shipwrecks, and wash from propellers and thrusters may have disturbed the sites. |
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| Various options including recirculation tunnels, thrusters and submerged water jets. |
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| The backdraft from its thrusters sent all of the cars flying. |
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| Then it shut down all the thrusters on the starboard side, leaving the 24-foot Deepsea Challenger spinning in a circle. |
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| Well, I don't think we should aggravate the woes of the NHS with thousands of Tory thrusters queueing up for speech therapy and gender reassignment. |
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| This raised the possibility that Russian rocket thrusters would be needed to fire much more frequently, depleting their limited supply of propellant. |
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| It will rotate gradually by about 180 degrees, over 10 minutes, so that the thrusters are pointed in the same direction that the spacecraft is moving. |
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| Electric bow thrusters use powerful electric motors, it is very important that there is sufficient battery capacity and large enough cables for safe operation. |
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| If the imagery is sufficiently fine, the dimensions of rocket thrusters required for attitude control and orbital change manoeuvres can be discerned. |
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| Cyan full-burned the thrusters to gain speed, turning the shuttle away from the planet toward the distant moons. |
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| Nevertheless, Field Emission Electric Propulsion thrusters that accelerate liquid metal ions such as caesium have been built. |
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| The remedy consists of DASA's granting non-exclusive licences for the manufacture and sale of on-board management systems, unified propulsion systems and chemical thrusters. |
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| The redundancy of the three generators and three thrusters, which makes it possible to operate on two generators and thrusters, is an additional safety feature. |
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| Both the thrusters and the cautionaries thought the war would end with a massive naval battle involving the battleships of both fleets. |
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| And the new Patriots can be steered with rocket thrusters as well as fins. |
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| These are similar to the azimuth thrusters already used on some vessels: propellers on pods that can be rotated to push the ship in different directions, making a rudder unnecessary. |
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| Snecma has already sold a dozen Fakel SPT100 thrusters, and has developed its first plasma thruster, the PPS® 1350, designed for orbit control on communications satellites. |
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| Joining the top and bottom hulls are a pair of rudders, each supporting a motor, thrusters and horizontal winglets that provide power and steering. |
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| The astronauts completed a test of the Reaction Control System steering thrusters that will help control Endeavour's attitude and speed after the deorbit burn. |
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| Unlike most spacecraft, which use thrusters to adjust their orbits, it has a highly efficient propulsion system called an ion engine. |
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| It also has stabilizers, bow thrusters and an ice-class hull. |
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| Surrounding the station is a rarefied cloud of water, oxygen and other leaked materials, and material from the exhaust of the thrusters on the space station and visiting spacecraft as they dock and then leave again. |
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| That's an affirmative Houston, the space shuttle has lost the secondary thrusters. |
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| In an earlier solar cycle, she said, small rocket thrusters on one satellite suddenly started firing, sending a spacecraft out of position. |
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| It is connected to a control centre on the mother ship by a tether which relays the electrical power to manoeuvre it, to power the lights and to control the on-board cameras and thrusters. |
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| It is attached to a control centre on the mother ship by a tether that contains the electric power to run it, to power the lights and to control the on-board cameras and thrusters. |
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| Vibrations caused by on-board activity and by the operation of pumps, thrusters, fans and cameras in the orbiter also can impact the quality of the research. |
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| This experiment explored in greater detail the gaseous reactions caused by the orbiter thrusters through the post-flight analysis of the thruster-induced glow spectrum. |
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| The Delta IV thrusters were delivered to ULA and the bipropellant apogee engine to The Boeing Company. |
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| The younger ones often worked in small teams, with those pushing the corf from the rear being known as thrusters. |
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| The thrusters often had to push the corf using their heads, leading to the hair on their crown being worn away and the child becoming bald. |
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| The underwater demounting capability of all eight thrusters means that neither dry docking, nor the use of a habitat is necessary in order to exchange the thrusters. |
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