How to Use propellant in a Sentence

propellant

1 of 2 adjective

• There's a buildup of propellant residue in the narrow lines that feed hydrazine fuel to the thrusters.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023
• Each four-legged lander is about the size of a small car and weighed about 3,900 pounds at liftoff—most of that weight was propellant.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• Most artillery shells are sent downrange by the detonation of a propellant charge in the breech of the gun.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
• This in turn builds up the pressure inside the casing (which is all propellant), the casing explodes and the shell is on its way.
  — Kevin Brown, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2020
• In the Falcon 9, helium is the gas of choice to pressurize the propellant tank.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• The company has not yet said what might have gone wrong with Peregrine to trigger the propellant leak.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2024
• This would provide a huge mass and propellant savings on each spacecraft.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2021
• That first test flight in May was aborted seconds after the rocket was released due to a breakage in its propellant line.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 17 Jan. 2021
• The launch of the Crew-6 had been planned for Monday, February 27th, but was called off at the last minute due to an issue with the rocket propellant ignition fluid.
  — Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023
• The robotic Peregrine lander, still in orbit around Earth, appears to have a propellant leak that will prevent it from reaching the Moon.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
• While booster tests have been performed since 2010 at the site, this new test’s main purpose was to try out propellant materials from new sources.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2020
• But with less than 10 minutes to go, engineers noted problems with a valve used to help pressurize one of the two propellant tanks in the Super Heavy first stage.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Once the launch team got into propellant loading, work to fill the large liquid hydrogen tank was stymied by a leak at an 8-inch inlet leading into the tank.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2022
• Analysts said some of the ICBMs appeared to be solid-propellant missiles that can be launched more quickly and are harder to detect.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• The bottom stage carries the vehicle’s four landing legs, its engine, and propellant tanks.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2023
• The electric bass is propellant, like a tiny set of wheels that push the music forward, fully in earshot because of the excellent low-frequency response of the xMEMS drivers.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
• But Blue Origin hasn't rolled a full-scale New Glenn rocket out to the launch pad for testing, including propellant loading and countdown rehearsals.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Because trace amounts of residual propellant vapor were detected near the spacecraft, the team held up opening the Crew Dragon's hatch while the system was purged.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2020
• Another rover will be required to fetch the samples and deliver them to a lander for stowage aboard a solid-propellant rocket.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 July 2020
• The Navy’s theory was that the man rigged a detonator and stuck it between bags of explosive propellant powder.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
• This means that an air-breathing rocket can lift more stuff with less propellant and drastically lower the cost of space access—at least in theory.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Ars Technica, 27 June 2020
• Both the first and second stage boasted propellant tanks with strong walls, which, coupled with the tanks being filled and pressurized to about 30 psi, provided the bulk of the vehicle’s structural support.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2017
• United Launch Alliance has been conducting propellant loading tests on the rocket in recent weeks in advance of a wet dress rehearsal and a static fire test.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• Both rifles used an ingenious form of ammunition called the Volition or rocket ball, which had a propellant charge in its base.
  — Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2022
• Of the main propellant types in use today, only hydrogen fueled rockets do not emit black carbon, says Maloney.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• This week, technicians will also take a look at a leak that cropped up during the filling of the rocket’s propellant tanks on Monday and tighten connections in the fuel line that connects to the bottom of the rocket.
  — Kenneth Chang, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• The company was forced to stand down from a first attempt this month after an issue was detected with the propellant temperature in the rocket’s second stage.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2023
• Here's a video of a propellant launch exercise involving an Atlas F missile.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
• The initial phases of the rendezvous went smoothly, but SpaceX engineers ran into problems with heaters used to keep thruster propellant lines at the proper temperature.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2020
• Expected in the near future, this will represent the first commercial launch of a liquid propellant launch vehicle in China.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 July 2022

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propellant

2 of 2 noun

• When this happens, the propellant briefly forms a cloud in space.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 June 2022
• Instead, benzene is part of the propellant that sprays the product out of the can.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 4 Apr. 2022
• Future crews on the Red Planet will need it to make propellant for the trip home.
  — Eric Niiler, Wired, 28 May 2021
• The review found that the chemical came from the propellant used to spray sunscreen out of the can.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 1 Aug. 2022
• However, the benzene came from the propellant that sprays the product out of the can.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
• For instance, it may be found in the propellant spray that helps get spray sunscreen out of cans.
  — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 31 Jan. 2023
• Rather, the chemical was detected in the propellant that sprays the sunscreen out of the can.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• Novelty was a propellant, a reason to reach the end of each day faster.
  — Gloria Liu, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2022
• However, the substance comes from the propellant that sprays the deodorant out of the can.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 17 Feb. 2022
• The coolant in refrigerators and the propellant in spray cans were made of CFCs that, when mixed in air, rose to the very top of the atmosphere.
  — Don Lincoln, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
• This reduces the amount of propellant needed for the craft to maintain its orbit.
  — Justin Bachman, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2021
• One, the shell uses the oxygen in the air itself as a propellant, and there’s plenty of oxygen in the atmosphere.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
• The culprit was what is known as the bleed system, which feeds cryogenic propellant from the core stage into the four RS-25 engines at its base.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022
• NEA Scout will release small amounts of propellant from its cold-gas thrusters to control itself in space, but the sail itself will do most of the work.
  — Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
• After the two-minute mark, the SLS boosters finished burning through their propellant and fell away.
  — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022
• But the loop’s slick design acts as a silent propellant, whisking hikers through in painless, speedy style.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
• When a normal gun is fired, the propellant is ignited and the bullet attached to the front of the shell is activated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• Some of the propellant the Dragon spacecraft uses can mix with too much moisture in the air, creating acid that corrodes the valve.
  — Loren Grush, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2023
• Its cartridge holds enough propellant to send the bullet flying out of the barrel at a speed that would cross six football fields in a second.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• Once the booster had used up its propellant, the capsule detached from the rocket at an altitude of about 47 miles.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2021
• If that superchilled propellant entered a too-warm engine, the thermal stress might lead it to crack and fail.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 31 Aug. 2022
• Doing so, the lander burned its propellant too quickly—then spent two minutes in free fall.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 26 May 2023
• In general, the string is made of a polymer resin, a substance that makes the resin foam up, a solvent, some coloring and the propellant that forces the chemicals out of the can.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• Before liftoff, the company has to load many thousands of pounds of fuel need to be loaded with millions of pounds of propellant.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
• Preparations over the weekend will set up the Artemis team to start loading propellant into the rocket’s core and upper stages.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 June 2022
• Hall thrusters, by contrast, use a simpler design, with a magnetic field to confine the flow of propellant.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2022
• But the Venus test was the first time using a room-temperature storable propellant, which will make the engine more viable for aircraft.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 1 May 2023
• This physical process heats up the propellant and converts it to a gas, which is expanded through a nozzle to produce thrust.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2021
• The former contains casing, a propellant and a primer cap but no bullet (the bullet is just the projectile — the entire thing is called a cartridge).
  — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2021
• Mueller said Helios could be refilled with propellant and then go on to other missions in orbit.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024