Originally Posted by
jolihokistix
Interesting, thank you wiggy and TURIN. Not having followed this too carefully, I now find the details to be amazing. I was sure that the thruster had either failed or gone off too late, compared to other landings I've seen.
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The pre- touchdown retro fire certainly wasn’t as obvious as it is on most Soyuz landings…the commentator on the live feed referred to it as an air jet or air thruster
system whereas other sources say it’s retro rockets (which is what Soyuz uses), be interesting to know what’s actually used.