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After Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit, Firefly's ground team will verify the readiness of the lander's propulsion and navigation systems and execute several thruster burns to set up for landing.
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Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2025
The debris avoidance maneuver involved firing thrusters on the ISS at 2:09 p.m. CT for 5 minutes, 31 seconds, according to NASA.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
The clever bit is that the X-37B won't be doing so by a series of thruster burns, but by performing shallow dives into the Earth's atmosphere to slow it down and place it into a new orbit.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024
Then, on Dive 81, pilot, Scott Griffith, discovered that one of the vessel’s thrusters reversed when the sub reached the ocean floor; Griffith reportedly had to finish the dive with the thruster working in reverse.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2025
The debris avoidance maneuver involved firing thrusters on the ISS at 2:09 p.m. CT for 5 minutes, 31 seconds, according to NASA.
—Chandelis Duster, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
The clever bit is that the X-37B won't be doing so by a series of thruster burns, but by performing shallow dives into the Earth's atmosphere to slow it down and place it into a new orbit.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024
Then, on Dive 81, pilot, Scott Griffith, discovered that one of the vessel’s thrusters reversed when the sub reached the ocean floor; Griffith reportedly had to finish the dive with the thruster working in reverse.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Thruster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thruster. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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thruster
noun
thrust·er
ˈthrəs-tər 
: one that thrusts
especially
: an engine that produces thrust by discharging a jet of fluid or a stream of particles
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