Sentence examples for an external tank from inspiring English sources

It was removed from MFC through medium circulation and gathering in an external tank.

It is the very basis of the shuttle program: that a reusable orbiter strapped to booster rockets and an external tank can be reliably operated.

DG5030 Pressure Iron & Steamer by Rowenta: More steamer than iron, this presser relies on an external tank that uses less water than traditional irons and produces up to 1.5 hours of steady steam.

On paper, the goals of this mission were straightforward: resupplying the space station and testing an external tank that had been modified so as not to shed the kind of launching debris that doomed the Columbia.

After an external tank was swapped out on Discovery before its flight a year ago, an examination found microscopic fractures in the foam insulation that engineers attributed to the flexing of repeated fuelings.

With the Endeavour back on the ground, engineers planned to haul the shuttle Discovery from its hangar to the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building on Tuesday for attachment to an external tank and a pair of solid-fuel rocket boosters.

The U.S. space shuttle orbiter uses three onboard liquid-fuel engines supplied by a disposable external tank and a pair of solid-fuel boosters to reach space.

A large external tank carried the liquid-oxygen and liquid-hydrogen propellants for the orbiter's three powerful engines.

Its main elements are an orbiter, which houses a cockpit, a crew compartment, and a large payload bay and has three high-performance reusable rocket engines; a large external tank that contains the cryogenic liquid hydrogen fuel and the liquid oxygen oxidizer for those engines; and two large solid rocket motors, called boosters, attached to the external tank.

If, by some strange turn of events, Congress were to find the money to build a new external tank, the two shuttles still in use could see their operational lives extended.

Accordingly, the War Office gave the Tetrarch the official General Staff specification number A17, and, in November 1938, accepted it for limited production after requesting a few minor changes which included the fitting of an external fuel tank to increase the tank's range.