rocket exhaust stream

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• exhaust stream — exhaust stream, Aerospace. the high speed current of gaseous or other particles emitted from a rocket or other reaction engine …   Useful english dictionary

• Rocket — 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 …   Wikipedia

• exhaust — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, absorb, assimilate, attenuate, avenue, backwash, bankrupt, beat, blackdamp, bleed, bleed white, blow, blow out, blowhole, blunt, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, broach, burden, burn out,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Solid-fuel rocket — A solid rocket or a solid fuel rocket is a rocket with a motor that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid fueled, powered by gunpowder, used by the Chinese and Arabs in warfare as early as the 13th century. All… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear thermal rocket — Sketch of nuclear thermal rocket …   Wikipedia

• jet stream — 1. strong, generally westerly winds concentrated in a relatively narrow and shallow stream in the upper troposphere of the earth. 2. similar strong winds in the atmosphere of another planet: jet streams on Jupiter. 3. the exhaust of a jet or… …   Universalium

• jet stream — jet′ stream n. 1) mer strong, generally westerly winds concentrated in a relatively narrow and shallow stream in the upper troposphere of the earth 2) aer. rkt the exhaust of a jet or rocket engine • Etymology: 1945–50 …   From formal English to slang

• jet stream — /ˈdʒɛt strim/ (say jet streem) noun 1. Meteorology a horizontal cone of air, at altitudes of between about 4575 m and 12 200 m, extending for great distances along the track of a wind and moving at very high speeds. 2. Aeronautics the exhaust of… …  

• Spacecraft propulsion — A remote camera captures a close up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial… …   Wikipedia

• SSME energy and power relationships — The Space Shuttle main engines are rockets that use liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellants. The ejection of propellants represents a “flow” of momentum; as a consequence of the law of conservation of momentum an equal and opposite force and… …   Wikipedia

• Components of jet engines — Diagram of a typical gas turbine jet engine. Air is compressed by the fan blades as it enters the engine, and it is mixed and burned with fuel in the combustion section. The hot exhaust gases provide forward thrust and turn the turbines which… …   Wikipedia