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  • vernier rocket — vernier engine or vernier rocket, a small auxiliary rocket engine used for minute adjustments in velocity or trajectory, such as before a spacecraft soft lands or docks: »On Jan. 9, 1968, following a 66 hour flight, a large retrorocket and three… …   Useful english dictionary

  • vernier rocket — /ˈvɜniə rɒkət/ (say verneeuh rokuht) noun → thruster (def. 2) …  

  • rocket — Synonyms and related words: AA target rocket, ABM, ASM, ATS, Asp, Asroc, Atlas, Atlas Agena, Atlas Centaur, Bullpup, Cajun, Corporal, Corvus, Crossbow, Dart, Deacon, Delta, Diamant, Dove, Earth insertion, Falcon, Firebee, Genie, Hawk, Holy Moses …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Vernier thruster — A vernier thruster is a thruster used on a spacecraft for attitude control. It is a smaller thrust motor than main attitude control motors and is used for fine adjustments to the attitude or velocity of a spacecraft. A vernier rocket is a smaller …   Wikipedia

  • Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …   Wikipedia

  • vernier — I. noun Etymology: Pierre Vernier Date: 1766 1. a short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument for indicating parts of divisions 2. a. a small auxiliary device used with a main device to obtain fine adjustment b. any of …   New Collegiate 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

  • vernier — /ˈvɜniə/ (say verneeuh) noun Also, vernier scale. 1. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel with the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, or other graduated instrument, and used for measuring a fractional part of …  

  • Vernier — n. a small movable graduated scale for obtaining fractional parts of subdivisions on a fixed main scale of a barometer, sextant, etc. Phrases and idioms: vernier engine an auxiliary engine for slight changes in the motion of a space rocket etc.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • vernier — n. a small movable graduated scale for obtaining fractional parts of subdivisions on a fixed main scale of a barometer, sextant, etc. Phrases and idioms: vernier engine an auxiliary engine for slight changes in the motion of a space rocket etc.… …   Useful english dictionary

  • vernier engine — Rocketry. a small, low thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long range ballistic missile. * * * …   Universalium

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