"tile" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No messy silica heat tiles.
- In each of the three prior missions with similar problems, a number of protective heat tiles were damaged, Mr. Counts said.
- The heat tiles were made by Lockheed until 1996, when United Space Alliance took over their manufacturing at the Kennedy Space Center.
- The report found the potential for "large" damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system, which consists of heat tiles, layers of thermal blankets and flame-retardant felt called Nomex.
- On the space shuttles, O-rings got scorched, heat tiles fell off, foam insulation broke free.
- The agency is still having trouble developing methods for repairing damaged heat tiles and the thermal-resistant carbon-fiber material on wing edges during a flight, members of the monitoring panel said.
- He said on the 1997 mission the shuttle sustained a significant amount of damage to its heat tiles.
- Six minutes later, it reported a buffeting underneath the left wing, perhaps from lost or damaged heat tiles, that required increasingly drastic corrections from the ship's computerized flight controls.
- The reporters were all over us, snapping pictures, burning themselves on the heat tiles---7' "Any casualties?"
- It was to use a new engine, high-tech carbon composites instead of aluminum for its fuel tanks and metallic heat tiles.
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