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hot-stage

hot-stage verb: to light the engine(s) of a rocket stage while still attached to the stage beneath it.

Verb

hot-stage (third-person singular simple present hot-stages, present participle hot-staging, simple past and past participle hot-staged)

  1. (intransitive) To light the engine(s) of a rocket stage while still attached to the stage beneath it.
    • The Proton's second stage avoids ullage issues by hot-staging, allowing the engines to ignite while still being pushed by the first stage, but this necessitates the use of a special open trusswork in the interstage area to prevent the superheated second-stage exhaust from blowing up the rocket.

Forms of hot-stage

third-person singular presenthot-stages
present participlehot-staging
past participlehot-staged
pasthot-staged

Questions about hot-stage

What does hot-stage mean?
Hot-stage means to light the engine(s) of a rocket stage while still attached to the stage beneath it.
What part of speech is hot-stage?
Hot-stage is a verb.
What is the past tense of hot-stage?
The past tense of hot-stage is hot-staged.

Words near hot-stage in the dictionary

  1. hot-short
  2. hot-shot
  3. hot-skull
  4. hot-skulls
  5. hot-spirited
  6. hot-stage
  7. hot-staged
  8. hot-stages
  9. hot-staging
  10. hot-step
  11. hot-stepped

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