vernier rocket
1vernier rocket — vernier engine or vernier rocket, a small auxiliary rocket engine used for minute adjustments in velocity or trajectory, such as before a spacecraft soft lands or docks: »On Jan. 9, 1968, following a 66 hour flight, a large retrorocket and three… …
2vernier rocket — /ˈvɜniə rɒkət/ (say verneeuh rokuht) noun → thruster (def. 2) …
3rocket — Synonyms and related words: AA target rocket, ABM, ASM, ATS, Asp, Asroc, Atlas, Atlas Agena, Atlas Centaur, Bullpup, Cajun, Corporal, Corvus, Crossbow, Dart, Deacon, Delta, Diamant, Dove, Earth insertion, Falcon, Firebee, Genie, Hawk, Holy Moses …
4Vernier thruster — A vernier thruster is a thruster used on a spacecraft for attitude control. It is a smaller thrust motor than main attitude control motors and is used for fine adjustments to the attitude or velocity of a spacecraft. A vernier rocket is a smaller …
5Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …
6vernier — I. noun Etymology: Pierre Vernier Date: 1766 1. a short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument for indicating parts of divisions 2. a. a small auxiliary device used with a main device to obtain fine adjustment b. any of …
7Rocket — This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. For other uses, see Rocket (disambiguation). A Soyuz U, at Baikonur Site 1/5 A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engi …
8vernier — /ˈvɜniə/ (say verneeuh) noun Also, vernier scale. 1. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel with the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, or other graduated instrument, and used for measuring a fractional part of …
9Vernier — n. a small movable graduated scale for obtaining fractional parts of subdivisions on a fixed main scale of a barometer, sextant, etc. Phrases and idioms: vernier engine an auxiliary engine for slight changes in the motion of a space rocket etc.… …
10vernier — n. a small movable graduated scale for obtaining fractional parts of subdivisions on a fixed main scale of a barometer, sextant, etc. Phrases and idioms: vernier engine an auxiliary engine for slight changes in the motion of a space rocket etc.… …
