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Example sentences for: propulsion

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Song Yichang said that the same low-power propulsion technology used to adjust a spacecraft's orbit in flight could also be used to alter the path of offensive missiles, thus enabling China to overcome U.S. anti-missile defenses.
This story is fronted by the NYT and LAT . The LAT goes with a quasi-local lead: NASA's determination that the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter earlier this year stemmed from gross mismanagement at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Lockheed.
Their electronic propulsion systems tended to conk out, especially when braking, causing them to smash one dock after another.
One of the most damning things that can be said about a script is that it is "episodic," meaning that it dawdles when it should accelerate, that the writer is less interested in the ruthless propulsion of the story than in leisurely details of tone and character.
I term this rate of reduction of age-specific mortality risk ‘actuarial escape velocity’ (AEV), because an individual's remaining life expectancy is affected by aging and by improvements in life-extending therapy in a way qualitatively very similar to how the remaining life expectancy of someone jumping off a cliff is affected by, respectively, gravity and upward jet propulsion (Figure 1).