vernier rocket

Smaller vernier rockets were added on its sides for precise control of maneuvers.

The rocket had two small thrust chambers on the sides of the tank called vernier rockets.

Now little vernier rockets, stuck to the side of the open compartment, cut in to slow the fall, kicking up their own little sprays.

He had forgotten the capsule's vernier rockets.

Due to their weight and the extra plumbing required for their operation, vernier rockets are seldom used in new designs.

Vernier rockets throbbed, adjusting the ship's rotation.

It is just an aluminium box sitting squat on its four legs, with vernier rocket nozzles stuck to the walls like clusters of berries.

You keep yourself stable with the four peroxide reaction clusters, the little vernier rockets spaced around the frame, squirting them here and there.

Louise, working her control console, caused the pod's small vernier rockets to squirt, once, twice, sending them down toward the wing surface once more.

Attached to the bottom of the sphere was a 90 N vernier rocket for mid-course propulsion and lunar orbit maneuvers which could be fired four times.

In fighter mode the VF-1's thermonuclear engines and the several vernier rockets on its fuselage make it capable of operating as an aerospace fighter.

He had emerged at its rim, wedged between the curving titanium and a cluster of football-sized cryogenic nitrogen tanks which pressurized the vernier rockets.

There are splashes of dust under the vernier rocket nozzles; the Surveyor is designed to land hard, and the three pads have left a firm imprint in the surface.

Just a couple of metal rails on hydraulics, and vernier rockets from a cannibalized flitter to give us some push ...' It's astonishing that there's enough ice here to sustain this.' '