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Plug nozzle

Type of nozzle

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Big dumb booster

States that it is cheaper to operate simple large rockets than smaller, more complex ones

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Aerocapture

Orbital transfer maneuver

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Liquid air cycle engine

Concept of hybrid atmospheric jet engine

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Expanding nozzle

Type of rocket nozzle

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Pogo oscillation

Type of vibration in a rocket engine

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Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster

Form of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion

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Electrodynamic tether

Long conducting wires which can act as electrical motors or generators

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Magnetic sail

Proposed spacecraft propulsion method

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Orbit insertion

Spaceflight operation

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Helicon double-layer thruster

Prototype spacecraft propulsion engine

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List of spacecraft with electric propulsion

none

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MagBeam
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Ram accelerator

Projectile launcher that uses supersonic fuel-air combustion outside of an engine

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Nano-particle field extraction thruster
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Lithobraking

Landing technique

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Beam-powered propulsion

Mechanism where confined high-speed particles confer energy to a vehicle

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Yo-yo de-spin

Device used to reduce the spin of satellites, typically soon after launch

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Reusable launch vehicle

Vehicles that can go to space and return

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Space tug

Spacecraft used to transfer cargo from one orbit to another

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Aerobraking

Spaceflight maneuver

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Lightcraft

Aerospace craft utilizing beam-powered propulsion

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