Meanings of using thrusters in English

Slowing it down generally meant using thrusters, which meant spending fuel.

There was little sense of anything happening; the kzin, following orders, was using thrusters only.

No, you'd be using thrusters.

But that acceleration would take more time, significantly more time, and attempting to alter their trajectories using thrusters would also take more time.

On Saturday afternoon (GMT), a landing module underwent a powered descent, using thrusters to perform the first soft landing on the moon in 37 years.