How to Use drogue in a Sentence

drogue

noun

• After the Coolidge jump, the team decided to raise the attachment point of the drogue, moving it from the seat of the suit to the back of the neck.
  — Laura Parker, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• The weapon is so big that, while the cargo plane is in the air, the bomb rolls out of the rear on a pallet, pulled by a drogue parachute.
  — Helene Cooper and Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
• The hose extended from the drone, and the Super Hornet connected with the drogue at the end of the hose to receive the fuel.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 9 June 2021
• Then the Dragon will deploy its drogue parachutes before the four main chutes open and guide it to a soft landing in the water.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2021
• First the drogue and then the main parachutes will deploy, which should happen about five minutes after launch.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2020
• At another point the free-flying drogue almost hits the F-35's cockpit canopy.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2017
• During an airdrop, a crew would eject the drogue chute into the stable air behind the cargo plane, which pulls the pallet and ensure a smooth exit.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2017
• The team tried to fix the problem by introducing a drogue—a round parachute about six feet across that is supposed to add stability.
  — Laura Parker, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Those parachutes come in three pulses: two drogue parachutes, three pilot parachutes and three main parachutes.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Nov. 2019
• Just over a half -hour later, Dragon reentered Earth’s atmosphere, aero-braking to slow down, then popped two drogue parachutes.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2019
• This 3-ring system will be released by electrical cutting sending the drogue further away from the capsule while pulling all 3 main parachutes.
  — Kristian Von Bengtson, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2012
• As the rocket descended beneath its main parachute at about 10 meters per second, a drogue chute trailed behind with a 50-meter line.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
• Eight minutes later, stabilizing drogue parachutes popped out, followed a minute later by the four main chutes, slowing the ship's descent to a much more sedate 15 mph or so.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2020
• But after this blackout the spacecraft emerged into the lower atmosphere unscathed, popped its drogue parachutes, followed by its mains, and then a smooth splashdown.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2020
• Small drogue parachutes will then stabilize the capsule before four main parachutes unfurl at an altitude of about 6,000 feet.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2020
• Then saeber kicked in, launching the drogue and pushing Eustace into a downward position, facing Earth.
  — Laura Parker, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Flipping around and jettisoning its forward heat shield, a series of small drogue and pilot chutes deployed, stabilizing the craft and pulling out two of three main parachutes.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2019
• The Super Hornet moved up to a position behind the drone and then plugged its refueling probe into the drogue, beginning the refueling process.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2021
• The cable successfully caught a line hanging from a smaller drogue chute and Rocket Lab’s mission control center erupted with cheers.
  — Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 3 May 2022
• After jettisoning its forward heat shield, drogue parachutes were to deploy, followed by the spacecraft's three main parachutes about 26 seconds into the flight.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2019
• United Parachute Technologies was part of a team that designed the drogue parachute main and reserve canopies, as well as giving Eustace additional flight training.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
• United Parachute Technologies was part of a team that designed the drogue parachute main and reserve canopies, as well as giving Eustace additional flight training.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 26 Jan. 2017
• So the company came up with a plan that would see the rocket reorient with some maneuvering engines before plunging into the atmosphere, slowed by a small drogue parachute.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2020
• To have a chance at winning, college and university-level rockets had to reach 1 mile in altitude, deploy a drogue parachute at the top of the flight and a main chute at a lower altitude, and carry a working payload.
  — Lee Roop, AL.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• If all goes well, two drogue chutes will deploy at an altitude of about three miles, stabilizing the ship and slowing it down before the Crew Dragon's four main parachutes deploy about a minute later at an altitude of just one mile or so.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2020
• SpaceX also improved part of the capsule’s barometric pressure sensor to give more accurate measurements to help determine when to deploy the spacecraft’s drogue parachutes, which help slow it for splashdown.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• The spacecraft's descent through Earth's atmosphere appeared to be nominal, with two drogue parachutes deploying on schedule, followed by four clean main parachutes, allowing Dragon to splash down at about 25 km per hour.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2022
• The ride down was a free fall for the passengers—subjecting them to a maximum gravitational force of 5.5 g’s—before three small drogue parachutes opened, followed by three main parachutes, slowly lowering the capsule toward the dusty Texas scrubland.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 July 2021
• In another, the company improved a system used to trigger release of stabilizing drogue parachutes during descent to splashdown.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2020
• Once safely away, the capsule is designed to follow a relatively normal descent trajectory, deploying drogue chutes to stabilize the craft and then four large main parachutes, at an altitude of about 6,500 feet, to lower the capsule into the ocean.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 26 May 2020

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024