Front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere.
1Now Tom feared that the explosion might have reburied the nose cone.
2Or strapped to the nose cone of a rocket ship made of bananas.
3He retracted the arm carefully, bringing the nose cone with it.
4Friction heat and ionization licked the transparent nose cone only centimeters from his face.
5The Crews at SpaceX were hard at work today, attaching the nose cone.
6Through the transparent, interlaced-diamond nose cone, he spotted a glitter, moving rapidly past the fixed constellations.
7My "capsule" was a coffee can; the nose cone was a rolled-up sheet of plastic.
8The Vessels looked like small pipes with a sharp nose cone and blisters halfway down the side.
9SMARAGD-1 nose cone payload testing and packing.
10It had become the glider's nose cone.
11Is that a nose cone or what?
12I lie on my stomach in the starboard hull, looking out through a thick, transparent nose cone.
13But as it turns out, you can send a Raven's nose cone through the plain old U.S.
14It has an advanced guidance and control system in its nose cone, Israeli missile expert Uzi Rubin said.
15In ten seconds the nose cone turned from cherry-red to white heat and began sloughing its outer ceramic coating.
16The Finn had gone in to receive a new nose cone after tagging the back of Webber's Red Bull.
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