NOUN
- front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere
How To Use nose cone In A Sentence
- Vibrations and failure to heed the warnings by the contractor resulted in the loss of the STS-4 (IIRC) boosters when the main parachute deck fitting separation explosive bolts inadvertantly fired prematurely when the linear shaped charge used to separate the frustum (nose cone) from the booster fired and generated vibes that the decelerometers sensed as water-impact ... at 10,000 ft.! More Ares Woes - NASA Watch
- For instance, if I'd worn a metal nose cone throughout my childhood I might have saved myself thousands of pounds in costly rhinoplasty.
- Except that the fire is definitely located in the nose cone, which would rule out any engine explosion.
- They also painted the torpedo in anti-graffiti paint to hopefully deter any future negative social behaviour and coated the nose cone in a clear metal lacquer.
- Oxygen was being administered through a nose cone.
- The rocket's body, nose cone and ballute subsequently fell back to Earth to make a "hard landing," officials said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Assembled from various stabilizers, wing sections, nose cones, pipes, fuselage chunks, and other random parts, all held tenuously in place by an improvised web of twisted wire, the piece is a monument of stored energy.
- After a recent Monday-evening class, five-year-old Zang Siqi rushes toward her mother, eager to show off a white rocket she has made out of paper, a Snow White sticker in its nose cone.
- The payload, perched on the nose cone of the massive rocket, was a one-man exploration vessel, Ranger 3.
- A round embedded itself in the nose cone, inches from where he was peering through his sights.