propulsion
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"We saw that Penn Engineering's propulsion system and our tiny electronic computers were just made for each other," says Blaauw.
From Science Daily
Capital Maritime gave the MIT team the blueprints of the Manzanillo Express, a containership, so they could create and test a computer model of a ship retrofitted with nuclear propulsion.
They would fail in the Arctic, where drones must be equipped with deicing systems, robust propulsion to deal with strong winds, and run on jet fuel or diesel instead of batteries.
Mission goals included analyzing the performance of upgrades to Starship’s propulsion system and heat-shield tiles.
The flight quickly went off course because of helium leaks in the vehicle’s propulsion system and the temporary failure of five thrusters that maneuver the craft.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
