Sentence examples for ballistic capsule from inspiring English sources
By 1958, the space plane concepts were eliminated in favor of the ballistic capsule.
U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest program looked at many manned spacecraft designs, ranging from rocket planes like the X-15, to small ballistic space capsules.
The main characteristics of IRENE is the "umbrella-like" deployable front structure that reduces the capsule ballistic coefficient, leading to acceptable heat fluxes, mechanical loads, stability and final descent velocity.
The Soyuz capsule detached from the rocket and began a "ballistic descent" (read: falling), arrested by a parachute before landing approximately 34 minutes after the fault.
Russian space officials said this morning that those engines may have failed, but stressed that the capsule is designed to survive what they termed a "ballistic" re-entry and landing.
He has flown to the space station and returned on a Soyuz, and he brought up two recent Soyuz re-entries, in which the capsule malfunctioned and tumbled back to Earth in a steep "ballistic" path that subjected those inside to G-forces higher than usual.
The malfunction sent the capsule into a backup mode of return that is called a ballistic entry with G-forces that were much higher than usual and a steep trajectory that put it hundreds of miles off course.
Also on show was the new, hi-tech Armata battle tank, which has a remote-controlled gun turret and reinforced capsule for the crew, as well as the RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles - each capable of delivering three nuclear warheads.
