Sentences with phrase «at subsonic»

The effect of two moons coalescing at subsonic speeds is an almost fluid merger, «like you literally threw a cow pie on the ground and there it is,» Asphaug says.

Not exact matches

The Hyperloop would send travelers through low - pressure tubes in specialized pods that zoom at high subsonic speeds, reaching more than 700 mph (1,100 kilometers per hour).

The missile currently flies to its target at low altitude and subsonic speeds of about 550 miles per hour.

In a scenario where a missile would have to travel a distance of 1,000 kilometers to reach its target, a subsonic system (at 800 km / h) would need 75 min, whereas a supersonic system (Mach 2.8) would need 17 min and 38 seconds and a hypersonic one (flying at mach 6) just 9 min and 30 seconds.

Four groups — based at MIT, Boeing, GE, and Northrup Grumman — tackled NASA's challenge to improve subsonic flight, in which the agency asked for aircraft designs that burn 70 percent less fuel and create less noise than existing planes.

But while they're good at predicting supersonic sound sources, they have a hard time predicting all the components of subsonic jet noise, especially in the sideline direction, or perpendicular to the exhaust stream.

An Icelander whose intensely psychological, yet still melodically accessible modernist scores like «Prisoners» and «Sicario» speak in alien languages of subsonic strings and nerve - chilling brass at last gets his actual close encounter as he translates the Rorschach Test language of obelisk / monolith dwelling inter-dimensional deities here.

I was wondering, if the subsonic sounds injure people, what do the wind farms at see do to whales and other sea creatures?