Sentences with phrase «lowered by crane»

From NASA: «The view from inside NASA Goddard's Thermal Vacuum Chamber shows the JWST [James Webb Space Telescope] heart being lowered by crane in preparation of weeks of space environment testing.»

Seconds before the stroke of midnight, a 17 - foot long spud was lowered by crane in the downtown area to ring in 2015.

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Two days after a 38 - year - old man was killed by a crawler crane that collapsed onto a Lower Manhattan street as workers tried to secure it against accelerating winds, Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City was lowering the wind - speed threshold at which such equipment must be shut down.

Strand jacks will assist with lowering the two anchor spans, after which the super crane will help remove the main span's steel support structures, completing main span removal by late fall 2018.

Workers then take out beams and concrete flooring, which are carried to ground level by a crane system that generates electricity as the pieces are lowered.

Dangling on cables like a giant spider, the payload is gently lowered by a «sky crane» to the surface.

The short film begins with the highly - capable convertible being lowered into the tunnel network by crane, before negotiating a range of obstacles through the 6.2 - metre diameter tunnel.

For one exhibition she was hoisted 800ft above London by crane and lowered as she pointed her lens at the city.

At Patuxent, we have been raising whooping crane chicks for 45 years; the species had reached a low of about 16 adult birds by the late 1930s and was in grave danger of extinction, as they still are today.