Word: restartable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...make the Agena ignite a second time called for tricky engineering. A second charge of solid propellant to restart the turbopump was comparatively simple. But since the rocket would be fired while in orbit, when everything on a satellite is weightless, the fuel might be anywhere in the partly empty tanks-perhaps gathered in a ball in the center. To coax it into a position where the pumps could get hold of it, two small, solid-fuel rockets are fired, giving the main rocket a slight forward push. The fuel responds momentarily as if to gravitation, settles to the rear...
...restart version of the Agena has not yet done its tricks in space, but in ground tests it has performed well. When used in the second stage of a satellite launcher, it will use most of its fuel to make the satellite climb toward a high apogee on the far side of the earth. Left to itself, the satellite would descend again to the low point (perigee) where it first went into orbit. But at apogee the Agena will fire a second time, giving enough additional push to put the satellite on a high, near-circular orbit, and keep...
...Lake Carnegie jayvee race, Yale swiped through Princeton's gate at the three-quarter mile mark, was disqualified, and forced a restart between the Tigers and the Crimson, who were even at the time. Harvard got away fast and won going away by a length and three quarters...
...midweek stubborn old Syngman Rhee gave up, asked U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs for his terms to restart the flow of U.S. oil and dollars. Said Briggs in effect: "Do what you promised to do four months ago in Washington." Rhee meekly agreed...
...years ago, nothing was further from his mind than a contribution to medical research. But in his misfortune he made one. After he banged his head on a car and hit the sidewalk, Hewitt's heart stopped, and it was 15 minutes before doctors could restart it by massage. It seemed unlikely that Hewitt could live after such a long stoppage of circulation to the brain. Hewitt surprised his doctors...