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rocket engine

noun as in jet engine with reaction propulsion

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Arbor hopes to take that waste, blast it through a “vegetarian rocket engine” to produce energy, then sequester all of the carbon the process would generate underground.

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But the company failed to land New Glenn's main rocket engine, or booster, onto a platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

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A rocket manufacturer has successfully tested rocket engines at a space port on Shetland.

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During a test of a Harpoon anti-ship missile, its booster — the rocket engine that launches the missile — was “activated” but not ignited, and then it could not be deactivated, the Danish military said.

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The Talon, powered by a liquid-fuel rocket engine, ended its flight by descending into the ocean as planned.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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