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What is an engine hook on a rocket?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

It's a small metal hook the length of the motor tube, fitted into the motor mount. This clips over the nozzle end to hold the engine in place when retro firing happens at the end of flight. If you didn't have this hook, the motor would blast out of the back of the rocket when it 'retroed'

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