deep pockets
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For future Mars missions, the inflatable heat shield would be combined with other systems like parachutes and retrorockets to guide the lander en route to a soft landing.
From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022
Another technology is retrorockets, used to take over from parachutes in the final stages of descent.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2022
The von Braun design, Fishman writes, “kept the astronauts close to home, so if something went wrong with the rendezvous, they could simply fire their retrorockets and return to Earth.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2019
Next, its retrorockets switched on, but only for three or four seconds rather than the 30 seconds required to slow Schiaperelli down sufficiently for a gentle landing.
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2016
If she had fired her retrorockets when originally instructed to, she would have been pushed farther out into space without a way to return.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
