relight
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When it tried to relight 13 engines for a landing burn, only some turned on, leading to the booster having a hard splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The upper stage will deploy 20 Starlink V3 satellites, and SpaceX said it will test out a relight of a Raptor engine in space.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Earle Mankey, an engineer at Brother in the mid-70s, says “15 Big Ones” was less Wilson’s attempt to relight the flame than it was “everyone else’s attempt to relight the flame.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
The switches were returned to their normal inflight position, triggering automatic engine relight.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
Jiichan struck a match and tried to relight the lamp.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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