10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETROENGINE»
Discover the use of
retroengine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
retroengine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Technical Report - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California ...
A plot of the one-way doppler data taken during main retroengine bum is given in
Fig. 13. 32,500 30 ,000 k 27 ,500 h 25 ,000 h O 22,500 Q 1 I 20,000^ 17,500 h
15,000 h 12,500 00 44 30 00 45 30 004500 004600 SEPTEMBER II, 1967, GMT
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.),
1969
2
AAS Science and Technology Series
The height of the spacecraft on the lunar surface is about 10 feet. The launch
weight of Surveyor I was about 2193 pounds including the retroengine and the
propellants for the liquid system. Before landing, the retroengine separated and
was ...
3
Scientific results of the Viking Project
Near the spacecraft (Figure la), retroengine exhausts have eroded the surface,
dislodged small rocks, produced fillets of debris on the sides of rocks facing
retroengine 2, and propelled small grains and fragments that produced small
craters ...
American Geophysical Union,
1977
In orbit each Mariner will weigh 1200 lbs, but each carries to Mars, as well, about
1000 lbs . of fuel for the 14-minute retroengine burn needed to slow it to the
requisite orbital speed. The Mariner aiming zone, the tightest the rocket
engineers ...
5
The Facts on File Dictionary of Space Technology, Revised ...
As the spacecraft's trajectory is bent by the planet's gravity, the command
sequence aboard the spacecraft fires its retroengine(s) at the proper moment and
for the proper duration. Once this retroburn (or retrofiring) has been completed ...
Gabriel's retroengine rose in pitch, then abruptly shut off, and his capsule banged
into the surface of the icy planet. The shell of the capsule split vertically and
spread the doors wide, allowing the weak pre-dawn glow to enter. Gabriel quickly
...
7
Advances in Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges
Second, Wirth's code, based on the inherited RetroEngine, assumes that all
conversions are effected by the winner. This is not so: the loser is sometimes
forced to convert to loss, e.g., {wKelQblRfl/bKal}, in which case Wirth's depth is
too great ...
Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Ernst A. Heinz,
2003
8
The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
The problemcenteredon the properorientation for retroengine firing,a difficulty
that was workedoutbythe time thefourth and fifth test missionswere flown in March
1961.Feoktistovindicated thataround oftechnical discussions led tomajor ...
Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell,
2013
As the spacecraft's trajectory is bent by the planet's gravity, the command
sequence within the onboard computer/clock subsystem fires the spacecraft's
retroengine(s) at the proper moment and for the proper duration. Once this
retroburn (or ...
10
Dictionary of Space Technology
As the spacecraft's trajectory is bent by the planet's gravity, the command
sequence aboard the spacecraft fires its retroengine(s) at the proper moment and
for the proper duration. Once this retroburn (or retrofiring) has been completed ...