Sentence examples for external tank from inspiring English sources

True, during ascent, while you have the external tank connected to the orbiter, you have a hard-mated interface between the external tank umbilical on the external tank side, and then its corresponding umbilical on the orbiter side.

It produces the giant external tank that holds fuel the shuttle needs to reach orbit.

All these cases did not involve debris from the external tank.

Leaky O-rings in the boosters ignited the external tank of the Challenger in 1986.

And foam falling from the external tank almost certainly fatally damaged the Columbia this year.

A camera on the Endeavour's external tank captured at least a dozen instances of falling debris.

With Columbia, there was a history of foam coming off the external tank during launch.

The unusual weather conditions mean the foam insulation around the 15-story external tank was drenched.

This was caused by launch debris that fell from the shuttle's external tank during liftoff.

The solid rocket broke loose and hit the external tank, rupturing it.

When the external tank was filled with liquid hydrogen for that mission, 400 square feet of ablator came loose.