Their purpose is to handle the enormous heat and stress of re-entry into the atmosphere. |
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On February 1, 2003, the Columbia and its crew were lost over the western United States during the spacecraft's re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. |
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The election was also a victory for women, providing them with an opportunity for a very symbolic re-entry into Afghan public life. |
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Their problem was that the new baby's father had a criminal record which would prevent his re-entry to the United States of America. |
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Tyler Imanian was home schooled by his mother this summer to prepare him for re-entry into an American school. |
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He would not think that the pension trustees intended to bring the tenancy to an end by re-entry in three weeks time. |
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The time for completion expired in 2001 and the right of re-entry arose on that date. |
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Lastly, a person who has been wrongfully dispossessed may undertake a form of self-help known as re-entry. |
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The Defendants are accordingly entitled to treat the Sublease as forfeited when peaceable re-entry took place. |
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Dr Haines said space travel was inevitably dangerous but re-entry into the earth's atmosphere had been successfully done many times before. |
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The nuclear warhead must survive exit from and re-entry to the earth's atmosphere at massive speed, accompanied by extremes of temperature. |
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Euve did not have an on-board propulsion system to allow engineers to control the spacecraft's re-entry. |
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The tiles are designed to keep the 1,649C temperatures generated during re-entry from reaching and melting the aluminium hull of the shuttle. |
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For several years I myself have fumed at the illogical regulation which sends farangs out of the country to obtain re-entry visas. |
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Plasma is a superheated gas surrounding the Orbiter during re-entry. |
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The shuttle's exterior is covered with thousands of tiles designed to protect it from the extreme heat of re-entry. |
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The voice warned the city that re-entry would be taking place momentarily, and recommended finding some way to cushion oneself for impact. |
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The contact caused a small crack in the wing, allowing hot gas to seep in on re-entry, destroying the wing and dooming the crew. |
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It seems sufficient to forbid the use of such orbits with carrying capacities likely to spread radioactive matter during re-entry. |
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In addition the Full Court ordered the mother to take all necessary steps to apply for a visa for re-entry into the United States. |
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This involves the re-entry of commitment appropriations concerning structural funds which have been decommitted. |
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Therefore, more focussed tools and strategies are required to prepare offenders for their eventual safe re-entry to the community. |
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No re-entry shall occur in treated greenhouses without an approved respirator unless it has been fully ventilated. |
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An electrical contractor is also sent into the community to make any electrical systems safe for re-entry, in light of ongoing safety concerns. |
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Returning to Canada in February 1999 using this passport, Ressam's re-entry went undetected at the time by Canadian authorities. |
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Since the last session of the General Conference we have become even more global with the re-entry of the United Kingdom. |
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Drilling of the Chandler-1 well in the Alaska Foothills was suspended, as planned, for re-entry next season. |
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Then the rider mistimes his re-entry slightly and bike and man blur as they crumple into the ramp. |
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The personnel in most major bases missed the flares of re-entry heat against the blazing sun. |
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The plot of the novel deals with the re-entry into society of a girl who seven years before murdered three children in her care. |
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Because the shuttle was designed for repeated re-entry, an ablative heat shield was not an option. |
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This caused gases to go through the damaged area during re-entry and thereby causing heat shield tiles to rip off. |
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A 55-year-old woman with a history of recurrent orthodromic AV-nodal re-entry tachycardia was admitted for electrophysiologic evaluation. |
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Scatter moth balls about or burn sulfur candles to evict them and then seal entrances with hardware cloth to prevent re-entry. |
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The space station has an odd shape, a donut with a conical re-entry vehicle at the center. |
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The capsule gyrated wildly through re-entry as it dragged the instrument module behind it. |
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It's pretty clear that nothing untoward precipitated the disintegration of the Columbia spaceshuttle upon its re-entry. |
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Each missile consists of ten independently targetable multiple re-entry vehicles, each with a 100 kt nuclear warhead. |
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The most effective thermal protection method for single re-entry vehicles was ablation. |
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I see the glint off its silver sides, the red glow where re-entry has heated it to some high temperature. |
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The run was keyed by the re-entry into the game of forward Mike Sovran, a fifth year co-captain, who scored seven points in that span. |
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The powers that be in cricket had seen enough changes in South Africa to grant us re-entry and a chance to play against the top countries in the world. |
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But since his election defeat in 1997 he has apparently undergone a personal conversion, calling for his party to be more inclusive since his re-entry into Parliament. |
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Since its re-entry into the Olympic movement in 1979, it has regularly found itself near the top of the medal table, as befits a country populated by 1.3 billion. |
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When Rochester was granted re-entry to the Goulburn Valley league the following year, after almost five decades in the Bendigo competition, many players failed to return. |
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He was then refused re-entry to France, while the authorities tried to find a country willing to accept the middle-aged Iranian with no country, no home and no passport. |
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But without question, Mr. Vander Zalm's re-entry into active politics at the party's Prince George convention instantly changed the political landscape in the province. |
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The essentials are a microchip for identification, a rabies vaccination certificate, and the elapse of six months between the dates of a clean blood sample and re-entry. |
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Perhaps the more exciting announcement to come out of Crewe is the revelation of the company's re-entry into motorsport, specifically the 24-hour Le Mans race. |
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The emigrants, who are in the US illegally, are afraid to come home for the holiday, because they are likely to be refused re-entry to the States by the US authorities. |
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At the end of its six-month mission, Jules Verne will offload solid waste and wastewater from the Station and burn up during atmospheric re-entry over the Pacific Ocean. |
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The previous column discussed the effects of long term accelerations such as those experienced during motor burn or re-entry of a commercial space vehicle. |
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After 15 years of service in outer space, Mir made its re-entry to earth. |
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Nasa officials had determined the exposed ceramic-fibre fillers could lead to overheating and a possible repeat of Columbia's disastrous re-entry. |
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The first spaceflight went well until atmosphere re-entry, when cables linking the capsule and the instrument module failed to separate completely. |
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So it might be worthwhile to revisit the process of re-entry and examine what happened a year ago as the unpowered, 100-ton glider returned to Earth from 200 miles up. |
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When a lessee commits a breach of covenant on which the lessor has a right of re-entry, he may elect to avoid or not to avoid the lease, and he may do so by deed or by word. |
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The Foton-M2 service module was hereafter separated from the re-entry module and, as planned, burnt up in Earth's atmosphere. |
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This is the play's first outing, so the actor has not chosen the easiest re-entry to theatreland after his four-year break. |
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Get your timing wrong, on either your exit from the market or your re-entry, and much of your bearishness would have been in vain. |
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Jaguar's re-entry into the world of top-level motorsport was supposed to herald a bright new dawn for the old marque, not an eclipse. |
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His re-entry into civilization was not marked by a news conference with camera flashes and barked questions. |
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His re-entry could either take the form of a senior White House position, or of a senior consultant to the re-election campaign. |
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That analysis focused mainly on the heat-resistant ceramic tiles that protect the shuttle during its fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere. |
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The capsule is expected to remain in orbit for 14 orbits and 21 hours before re-entry and a parachute landing in inner Mongolia. |
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In this case, expulsion shall be based on objective elements and a ban on re-entry cannot be imposed. |
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Is there a direct link between the arrival of migrants and the re-entry into the labour market of our own European citizens? |
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The United States does not require assistance from other governments for tracking or for re-entry prediction. |
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Belyayev had to stretch across both seats to look through the spacecraft's porthole to visually orient the spacecraft before the retrofire burn then scramble back into his seat for re-entry. |
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They may involve several independent elements, such as orbiters, sub-satellites, landers, rovers, penetrators, airborne robots, planetary ascent vehicles or re-entry vehicles. |
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On the contrary, an excessive period of detention of up to 18 months and a EU wide re-entry ban for those forcibly returned, risks lowering existing standards in the Member States. |
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In one case, the Contract Services Division proposed the implementation of a software package that could facilitate information transfer and minimize data re-entry. |
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The highly toxic nature of the satellite's fully fuelled hydrazine tank, which would likely survive in a natural re-entry, was the key factor influencing this decision. |
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The objective of this proposal is to provide for common rules on return, removal, the use of coercive measures, temporary custody and re-entry. |
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The particles in a low earth orbit may be numerous, but mainly they consist of parts that burnt and broke up upon re-entry, and are thus just small particles and flakes. |
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In the third analysis, constraints on the wood volume harvested with different methods are maintained and the harvest volumes available are calculated assuming that the re-entry time is set at 30 years. |
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Good macroeconomic policies must be linked to employment and social policies that prevent unemployment, enable a quick re-entry into the labour market and prevent the risk of social exclusion. |
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Maintaining contact with their home organizations throughout the placement helped participants sustain their knowledge, skills and networks, which will no doubt help ease their re-entry at the conclusion of their assignment. |
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Healthcare, hunger, homelessness, prison re-entry, and interfaith dialogue are all key areas plus more. |
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They found the overall re-arrest rate for offenders receiving re-entry assistance was 31 percent lower. |
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Unfortunately, due to a fault with a timer, the mothership failed to release them before it burned up on re-entry. |
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The maximum heating rate of the capsule in the re-entry is several tens times higher than that of the Space Shuttle and several times higher than the Apollo recovery module. |
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The service module, and the orbital module are burned in the Earth's atmosphere, whilst the re-entry module uses its heat shield to make a safe return. |
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This time, the suddenness of the fall was reinforced by the fact that it immediately followed her latest explosive re-entry into the political firmament. |
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If you overstay your visa you will be subject to deportation and may be barred from re-entry to Japan. |
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About 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered in water, so re-entry debris usually lands in the ocean. |
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Russia could overwhelm the system with its thousands of re-entry vehicles and nuclear warheads. |
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Full-length air sponsons at the perimeter of the boat assure level and stable flotation of swamped boat for unassisted fast re-entry. |
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Will the stricken module survive re-entry? |
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The angle of attack is critical to safe re-entry. |
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Doris Lee is a worthy candidate for re-entry. |
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The warning signal was erroneous, but the new re-entry mode required Sam to override the automatic sequencers and perform critical milestone events manually between retrofire and atmospheric entry. |
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The flexibility of the model allows us to create lifting body or winged re-entry vehicle from an optimization procedure as monolithic bodies. |
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Other measures would require employers to develop return-to-work plans for injured workers, and call for the WCB to draw up a labour market re-entry plan for workers unable to return to their previous jobs. |
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Later in the game the manager announces the re-entry of the original number four starter to pinch hit for the substitute. |
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Avalon was established in 1985 and offers residential re-entry services to more than 3,000 people. |
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On returning from maternity leave, she will be experiencing sleep deprivation and re-entry shock, and some initial flexibility will make for a smoother transition. |
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Her re-entry was delayed some number of months because in the city of Ottawa one cannot find adequate day care spaces due to the fact that the government has not contributed. |
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These holders have no idea whether home equity borrowers use proceeds not only to consolidate debt but as a re-entry vehicle into the selfsame debt. |
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At the present time there are many more clients looking for entry or re-entry to education, training, and employment preparation programs than can be accommodated. |
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The documents detailed Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear warhead, including designs for a missile re-entry vehicle, and showed other possible undeclared activities with nuclear material. |
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In the case of MIR it would be desirable that a controlled re-entry be made towards an unfrequented oceanic zone before the station becomes uncontrollable. |
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As his toon dreams cycled through death and re-entry into the game, he heroically burnt his last free-octane in a videogamescape, rising into space again. |
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Those who persevere and return to work, can find their re-entry stressful. |
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On the Apollo 7 flight, the astronauts developed head colds and became downright grumpy with Mission Control during a tussle over whether to wear their helmets during re-entry. |
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North Korea has not yet tested a vehicle that can make a controlled re-entry into the atmosphere and find a target. To travel intercontinental distances, warheads must be miniaturised. |
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At elite level an obligation lies on fans to turn out to support their teams after those in boardrooms heeded strong public pressure to deny Rangers re-entry to the Premier League. |
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For the opening act of the five-game Christmas re-entry that Commissioner David Stern was going to deliver if he had to personally shinny down every chimney in North America, Knicks-Celtics was a natural. |
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They don't want to spend several hundred million dollars for a test and find that in the upper atmosphere there were hailstones that destroyed the interceptor or the mock re-entry vehicle. |
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Then it would level off and commence re-entry. |
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Roscosmos predicts that only between 20 and 30 fragments of the Phobos probe with a total weight of up to 200 kilograms will survive the re-entry and plummet to Earth. |
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Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit. |
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The concept brings together Northrop Grumman's air and autonomous air vehicles, space, large deployable and re-entry systems expertise into a delta wing design. |
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The space shuttles' exterior tiles, made to withstand the heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, are coated with borosilicate glass tinted black with silicon boride. |
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This integration will eliminate date re-entry and significantly reduce errors, speeding the loan submission process, reducing costs and shortening close times. |
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