Sentence examples for fired a projectile from inspiring English sources
Tonight, a Japanese spacecraft completed a touchdown on the surface of an asteroid, where it fired a projectile at the rock's surface rock.
To make small enough fragments, the spacecraft fired a projectile made of the metal tantalum — basically a bullet — at the asteroid's surface.
It fired a projectile at the body to disturb the surface.
After a closer look at data radioed home by Hayabusa, however, the JAXA scientists could not confirm whether the spacecraft had fired a projectile into the surface of the asteroid.
My first gun fired a projectile and was a lever action, cork gun, a Christmas present.
"North Korea fired a projectile that appears to be a ballistic missile," he said.
The effects company that supplied the guns, Jauchem & Meeh Inc., made them tamper resistant and unable to fire a projectile.
The difference in the two situations results from the fact that momentum (the product of mass and velocity) is conserved: the momentum of the system that fires a projectile must be opposite and equal to that of the projectile.
The shaped charge explosion fires a projectile "at a very rapid rate, sufficient to penetrate certain levels of armor," General Conway said, adding that weapons employing shaped charges had caused American casualties in the last two months.
If a spacecraft flying at a low altitude were to fire a projectile into the lunar surface, a second trailing spacecraft could capture material from the resulting cloud of ejecta.
