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Already the busy schedule has another limitation for turning around launches, the use of the commodities like gaseous nitrogen and propellants that have to be flowed to the launch pads, which is mostly done now through a contract with NASA for KSC and Cape Canaveral pads.
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
Back then, a handful of photos and images from the Florida Keys and Puerto Rico showed debris in the sky after Starship activated its self-destruct mechanism due to an onboard fire caused by a dump of liquid oxygen propellant.
—Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
The full system requires more than 10 million pounds of propellant for launch.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
The plan for Starship is to transfer cryogenic propellants between tankers, depots, and ships heading to the Moon, Mars, or other deep-space destinations.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2025
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2025
Back then, a handful of photos and images from the Florida Keys and Puerto Rico showed debris in the sky after Starship activated its self-destruct mechanism due to an onboard fire caused by a dump of liquid oxygen propellant.
—Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
The full system requires more than 10 million pounds of propellant for launch.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
The plan for Starship is to transfer cryogenic propellants between tankers, depots, and ships heading to the Moon, Mars, or other deep-space destinations.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for propellant
Noun
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Back then, the U.S. was trying to conserve fuel and energy for World War I and shifted clocks to make use of natural evening sunlight.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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Speaking on Friday in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump suggested that Iran’s nuclear capabilities — which now include enough near-bomb-grade fuel to produce about six weapons — were reaching a critical point.—
David E. Sanger,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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By that time, the mountains around L.A. were like a giant pile of kindling.—
Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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Then Sam throws the rest of his kindling onto his fire in a last-ditch attempt just as, as Jeffrey says, the wind blows Teeny’s fire away from her rope and blows Sam’s fire upward toward his rope.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Practicing medicine can be demanding on physicians’ time, energy, and wellbeing.—
Christopher M. Worsham,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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The administration tried to freeze funding that Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act directed to clean energy, turning that particular clock back to 2022.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2025
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That power is vested in prosecutors as executive branch officials.—
Michael Rothfeld,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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Her lung power seems surprisingly undiminished, and the same goes for her sense of pitch.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Propellant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propellant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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