| 1. | The 96-minute firing of Cassini's main braking rocket began and ended on schedule.
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| 2. | Aerobraking is a weight-saving and cost-saving substitute for braking rockets.
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| 3. | The Mars probe disappeared after firing its braking rockets while approaching the Red Planet.
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| 4. | I've made a bunch of redlinks to braking rocket; there's already an article on retrorockets.
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| 5. | After firing braking rockets, the Climate Orbiter will slip into a looping orbit around Mars.
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| 6. | Atlantis'pilots fired the braking rockets an hour before landing, dropping the ship out of orbit.
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| 7. | The probe was designed to land on the Martian south pole with small braking rockets.
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| 8. | Then parachutes, braking rockets and a cluster of airbags will reduce the energy of impact.
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| 9. | Three braking rockets will stop its descent at just more than 60 feet from the surface.
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| 10. | The descent-braking rockets didn't fire at all.
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