SUSTAINER ENGINE

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	A rocket engine that maintains the velocity of a rocket vehicle once it has achieved its programmed velocity by use of booster or other engine.This term is applied, for example, to the remaining engine of the Atlas after the two booster engines have been jettisoned. The term is also applied to a rocket engine used on an orbital flider to provide the small amount of thrust now and then required to compensate for the drag imparted by air particles in the upper atmosphere. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	Propulsion, either rocket or airbreathing, that provides power for sustained flight following short hight-thrust acceleration period under power of boost motor(s). Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: SUSTAINER ENGINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-n-r-s-s-t-u"
	-4 letters: ensanguines, genuineness, seigneuries, sergeanties, unresisting.
	-5 letters: argentines, engineries, ensanguine, entireness, entraining, eternising, gannisters, graininess, innateness, insinuates, insurgents, neuritises, resinating, sauntering, serenities, signatures, stingarees, sustaining, tangerines, uraninites.
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