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