retrorocket

The decision was made to leave the retrorocket pack in position during reentry.

Because of weight constraints, there was no backup retrorocket engine.

Being mobile, the parasite handled all the retrorocket work.

This would allow for natural orbit decay and reentry if the retrorocket failed.

A backup solid-fuel retrorocket was added to the top of the descent module.

The spacecraft was maneuvered into retrofire attitude and the first retrorocket fired.

Parachutes: single with suspended retrorocket package for soft landing.

Also, a rocket may be used to soften a hard parachute landing immediately before touchdown (see retrorocket).

Grissom had initiated the retrorocket sequence and the spacecraft was arcing downward.

Biosatellite 1 was not recovered because of the failure of a retrorocket to ignite.

The original Vostok spacecraft only had one liquid fuel retrorocket and no provision for backup.

Seconds later the retrorocket fired.

Attached to its base was a two-ton service pod that, among other things, held a retrorocket meant to slow down the speeding spaceship.

Just before the scheduled firing of its retrorocket, a command was sent to inflate cushioning air bags around the landing probe.

The fictional movie tells the story of three Apollo astronauts unable to return to Earth because of retrorocket failure.

They overruled Kraft, telling him to instruct Glenn to leave the capsule's retrorocket package on during re-entry.

The spacecraft momentarily regained its proper attitude, long enough for a nine-second-long retrorocket firing, but Luna 8 became unstable again.

The craft's descent will be slowed first by atmospheric drag, then by parachute and finally by retrorocket firings.

As pointed out above (in connection with Project Apollo) the main rocket on a spacecraft can be re-oriented to serve as a retrorocket.

Six of the translational control engines were mounted on the side of the Retrorocket Module, near the spacecraft's center of mass.

White paint, gold and chrome plating, and a silvered plastic sheet encasing the retrorocket furnished thermal control.

By the mid-1970s they were able to drop BMD-1 fighting vehicles with crew members aboard, using a combination of parachutes and retrorocket.

A retrorocket (short for retrograde rocket) is a rocket engine providing thrust opposing the motion of a vehicle, thereby causing it to decelerate.

Flight controllers had Glenn modify his re-entry procedure by keeping his retrorocket pack on over the shield in an attempt to keep it in place.

As he plummeted downward, he saw what appeared to be two of the spent retrorockets pass across the periscope view after the retrorocket package had been jettisoned.