rocket-driven

Updated: April 30, 2025

"You are right. For ages there has been but little power produced upon Titan. Many cycles ago, however, our scientists had developed rocket-driven space-ships, with which they explored our neighboring satellites, and even Saturn itself. It is from power plants upon Saturn that we draw energy.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Spacehounds of IPC

There'd been two attempts to blast it with atomic bombs. But it was high aloft, rolling grandly around the Earth, so close to its primary that its period was little more than four hours; and it rose in the west and set in the east six times a day. Today Joe would try to get a supply ship up to it, a very small rocket-driven cargo ship named Pelican One.

Murray Leinster - Space Tug