How to Use drogue in a Sentence

drogue

noun
  • On decent, a pair of drogue chutes are deployed to slow the craft, followed by three main chutes.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
  • First, the capsule will deploy a small drogue chute to keep itself stable.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 parachute system is designed to bring a crew safely back to Earth if one drogue or one main parachute fails to inflate.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • At another point the free-flying drogue almost hits the F-35's cockpit canopy.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2017
  • Ten minutes later, the capsule's drogue parachutes deployed as planned, followed in short succession by its three big main chutes.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • At about 22,000 feet, the first two drogue parachutes will deploy that will slow Orion down to about 200 mph.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Orion will jettison its forward bay cover and deploy its drogue parachutes near 22,000 feet.
    — Miles Doran, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Then saeber kicked in, launching the drogue and pushing Eustace into a downward position, facing Earth.
    — Laura Parker, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In high speed ejection conditions additional stabilization is provided by a drogue parachute.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 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
  • After crossing the panhandle of Florida, now flying at just a few hundred miles per hour, small drogue parachutes inflated to stabilize the spacecraft followed by the four main chutes.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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