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