Jet propulsion is the propulsion of an object in one direction, produced by ejecting a jet of fluid in the opposite direction. By Newton's third law, the...
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States. Founded in 1936...
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A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this...
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A pump-jet, hydrojet, or water jet is a marine system that produces a jet of water for propulsion. The mechanical arrangement may be a ducted propeller...
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airbreathing jet engines, but rockets and scramjets are both also propelled by jet propulsion. Cruise missiles are single-use unmanned jet aircraft, powered...
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creator Craig Bartlett, and is produced in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The show teaches science and astronomy. The show is aimed...
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able to reproduce, digest, float, maintain body positioning, and use jet propulsion to move. Most colonies are long, thin, transparent floaters living in...
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris (abbreviated JPL DE(number), or simply DE(number)) designates one of a series of mathematical models of...
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Aquatic locomotion (section Jet propulsion)
evolved for swimming are found among the vertebrates, notably the fish. Jet propulsion is a method of aquatic locomotion where animals fill a muscular cavity...
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Voyager 2 (section Attitude control and propulsion)
to send the probe on towards Uranus and Neptune. Constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Voyager 2 included 16 hydrazine thrusters, three-axis...
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Ion thruster (redirect from Xenon Ion Propulsion System)
thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive ions from...
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Spacecraft electric propulsion (or just electric propulsion) is a type of spacecraft propulsion technique that uses electrostatic or electromagnetic fields...
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An airbreathing jet engine (or ducted jet engine) is a jet engine in which the exhaust gas which supplies jet propulsion is atmospheric air, which is taken...
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Soviet rocketry (redirect from History of Soviet Rocket and Jet Propulsion)
1. Siddiqi 2000, p. 7. Tsander, F. A. (1964). Problems of Flight by Jet Propulsion-Interplanetary Flights (Translated from Russian) (PDF). Israel Program...
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74.2° this comet does not spend a lot of time near the ecliptic. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) website shows that between the years 1900 and 2200...
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Transatlantic tunnel (section Jet propulsion)
2007-12-28. "Part I: Chemical Propulsion and the Dawn of Rocket Science". The Past and Future of Rocket Engine Propulsion. Regents of the University of...
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piston-engined aircraft. Aircraft that use propellers as their prime propulsion device constitute a historically important subset of aircraft, despite...
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not particularly aerodynamic, they achieve these impressive ranges by jet-propulsion; water continues to be expelled from the funnel while the organism is...
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Dawn (spacecraft) (section Propulsion system)
have orbited a dwarf planet. The Dawn mission was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with spacecraft components contributed by European partners...
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Spacecraft propulsion is any method used to accelerate spacecraft and artificial satellites. In-space propulsion exclusively deals with propulsion systems...
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Pandur II (section Water jet propulsion and winch)
water jet propulsion units are installed in the Pandur II's back; they are mechanically driven through the drivetrain. When the water jet propulsion system...
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Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program and the preceding Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project worked to develop a nuclear propulsion system...
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Spitzer Space Telescope (category Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 2008. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2007. "The Solar Panel Assembly". Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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"NEO Earth Close Approaches". Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 3 March 2021. "MPEC 2023-A70 : 2023 AC1". Minor...
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Some animals, notably cephalopods, move by jet propulsion, as do rocket engines and jet engines. Liquid jets are used in many different areas. In everyday...
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applies to air-breathing jet engines with an area representing kinetic energy added to the air flowing through the engine. A propulsion device, a nozzle, has...
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Psyche (spacecraft) (section Propulsion)
studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the project. The spacecraft will not land on...
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