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    Press. p. 272. ISBN 9780521458702. Nautic Expo on Bow Thrusters How Bow Thruster is Used for Maneuvering a Ship? by Marine Insight, September 13, 2012, By...
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    marine thrusters are for propulsion and maneuvering, the maneuvering thruster typically in the form of bow or stern thrusters and propulsion thrusters ranging...
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  • systems available for orbital maintenance, maneuvering and attitude control.[citation needed] Cold gas thrusters are predominantly used to provide stabilization...
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    velocity. Depending on the design of a craft's maneuvering and stability systems, it may simply be a smaller thruster complementing the main propulsion system...
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    and docking maneuvers in orbit. Shuttle thrusters were grouped in the nose of the vehicle and on each of the two aft Orbital Maneuvering System pods....
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    An ion thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. An ion thruster creates a cloud of positive...
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    An azimuth thruster is a configuration of marine propellers placed in pods that can be rotated to any horizontal angle (azimuth), making a rudder redundant...
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  • changes in velocity to spacecraft by the use of cold gas thrusters, usually as maneuvering thrusters. To attain a useful density for storage, most propellants...
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    Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a type of ion thruster in which the propellant is accelerated by an electric field. Hall-effect thrusters (based on the...
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    A magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster (MPDT) is a form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion which uses the Lorentz force (the force on a charged...
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    orbital maneuvering thrusters are almost universally pressure-fed designs. Examples include the Reaction Control (RCS) and the Orbital Maneuvering (OMS)...
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  • "linear oscillating mechanism" reactionless drive; the gyroscopic inertial thruster is perhaps the best known example of a "rotating mechanism" reactionless...
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  • draco, a species of dragon tree Draco (rocket engine), an orbital maneuvering thruster being built for the SpaceX Dragon and upper stage of the Falcon 9...
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    The Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System (OAMS) was a reaction control system used in Earth orbit by the Project Gemini spacecraft. It provided both...
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  • Calvin attempts to re-enter the station through its maneuvering thrusters. The crew fire the thrusters to blast it away, but the loss of fuel causes the...
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    from the exterior of the spacecraft, and configured his nitrogen maneuvering thruster. Collins had difficulty reentering the spacecraft, and needed Young...
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    The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) is an astronaut propulsion unit that was used by NASA on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984. The MMU allowed the astronauts...
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    generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma. This is in contrast with ion thruster engines, which generate thrust through extracting an ion current from the...
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    Kitchen rudder – Type of directional propulsion system for vessels Maneuvering thruster – Transverse or steerable propulsion device in a watercraft Modular...
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    plume before shutdown. Equipment failure 17 March 1966 Gemini 8 A maneuvering thruster refused to shut down and put their capsule into an uncontrolled spin...
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  • More practically, this type of maneuver is used in low thrust maneuvers, for example with ion engines, Hall-effect thrusters, and others. These types of...
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    physics. The concept has at times been referred to as a resonant cavity thruster. The idea is generally considered by physicists to be pseudoscience. Neither...
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  • also this thruster force. But for many purposes, typically for studies or for maneuver optimization, they are approximated by impulsive maneuvers as illustrated...
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    The gridded ion thruster is a common design for ion thrusters, a highly efficient low-thrust spacecraft propulsion method running on electrical power...
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    nearly precise enough to achieve rendezvous, as the Vostok lacked maneuvering thrusters to adjust its orbit to match that of its twin. The initial separation...
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  • 21000 km (apogee 36000km), far below the geostationary orbit. Trim-maneuver thrusters attached to the satellite were used to slowly raise to geostationary...
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    of about 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). For maneuvering at ports, Carnival Sunrise has six transverse thrusters. She was completed and entered service in...
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    The Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit (HHMU), also known as the maneuvering gun, or informally as "the zip gun", was the first astronaut propulsion unit. It was...
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    Propulsion Diesel-electric 2 × ABB Azipod X thrusters 3 × Brunvoll FU-115-LTC-3000 maneuvering thrusters Speed 22.0 knots (41 km/h) (cruising) Capacity...
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  • orbital maneuvers that require high delta V over shorter periods. Resistojets can be considered an evolution of traditional cold gas thrusters, which are...
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