Sentences with phrase «supersonic speeds»

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As long predicted, the meteor's initial pinprick of light spreads into a curved bow shock as it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per second.

The encounter puts the brakes on the solar wind, causing it to abruptly slow from supersonic speeds of 400 to 700 kilometers per second down to subsonic speeds of 100 km / sec, according to simulations.

After release from the balloon, rockets will lift the disk to 180,000 feet while reaching supersonic speeds.

â $ œIn Sonic Colors, Â players run at supersonic speed through incredible looking planets each with their own unique visual style.â $ commented Gary Knight, Senior Vice President of Marketing, SEGA.

In Jet Car Stunts the players control a Jet Car — the combination of a formula racing car and a jet plane that lets them perform nearly impossible gravity - defying stunts, like driving through loops, jumping over incredible distances, corkscrew maneuvers, drifting near the edge of the racing track,... all of that in supersonic speed, miles above the ground.

Lockheed Martin wins a nearly quarter - billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom.

That meant the first generation of SSTs were banned from flying at supersonic speed over land, which greatly reduced the appeal of supersonic aircraft.

Iron Man and Nova fly at supersonic speeds along the sides of buildings, leaving destruction in their wake.

Then, on a trip to England to visit the Chapmans, Pat, a former RAF jet pilot, drove us around Cornwall at nearly supersonic speeds on the left hand side of the road, which is always disconcerting to Americans.

The MADV would attach to the space station, and travel to and from the Martian surface via supersonic retropropulsion, which uses rocket engines to slow the lander from supersonic speeds during its descent, according to three Lockheed Martin engineers who discussed the lander in a presentation at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia.

But very early on, normal matter may have sloshed back and forth at supersonic speeds across a skeleton provided by colder, more sluggish dark matter.

Combining supersonic speed rhythm with Afro - beat percussion and lushly mysterious strings, «Bourne» was more music for a whirling dervish dancer than a murder - programmed spy, a fusion of alternative club stylings with solidly symphonic tradition, graced with a memorable theme to tie its kinetic energy together.

Damon has grown quite commanding after his decade in the spotlight, and with very little dialogue, we can see his brain whirring at supersonic speeds as his eyes flicker over their surroundings.

[6] Aircraft such as the F - 102 were designed with narrow waists and bulging forward and rear fuselages to conform to the area rule to achieve supersonic speeds.

The engine's supercharger spun at 24,000 rpm, the tips of its blades hitting supersonic speeds.

Awesome Games Done Quick, the annual charity event where speed - runners blast through games at supersonic speed for seven days to raise money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

It can transport people in small capsules at near supersonic speeds, thanks to low air pressure inside the tubes.

Apparently, whenever a hard object falls into a pool of water, a jet of air is produced that briefly reaches supersonic speeds.

Both involve an explosion and creation of a shock wave that travels at supersonic speeds through the surrounding gas.

Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter - billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship climbed at supersonic speed over California's Mojave Desert on Thursday in the company's first powered flight since the fatal crash of its original rocketship in 2014.

Modern theories of aerodynamics, advanced materials and computer analysis have made possible parachutes that can decelerate a capsule from supersonic speeds to a snail's pace in a matter of seconds

In 1925, scientists chased an eclipse with an airship; in 1973, they did so at supersonic speed in a Concorde.

On October 14, 2014, the valiant Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner ascended to more than 128,000 feet above New Mexico in a helium balloon before freefalling at supersonic speeds (Mach 1.24) back to earth.

Mauchly proclaimed that the machine would lead to better weather predictions (his original passion), airplane design, and «projectiles operating at supersonic speeds.»

But some basic principles remain: When a bullet is traveling at supersonic speeds, it partially slows down the moment it hits a person.

HTT uses a technology called hyperloop that essentially transports passengers in special capsules, or pods, propelled by magnets through steel tubes at a supersonic speed of 760 miles per hour (1,223 kilometers per hour).

Drawing technology from the F - 22 would give the new plane top - of - the - line stealth capabilities as well as the ability to travel at supersonic speeds.

There was some mention of «supersonic speeds» and a guy sitting in a chair, white - knuckled hands clutching the armrests, yelling, wearing sunglasses, his hair and necktie blown back by what was implied to be the speed of said CD - ROM drives available for purchase.

The plumes shoot into space at supersonic speeds, feeding one of Saturn's famous rings, and are known to contain both salts and organic compounds.

To make the highly cubic ice, the researchers drew nitrogen and water vapor through nozzles at supersonic speeds.

When an object such as a pebble drops into water, an air - filled cavity is created which ejects air at supersonic speeds, discovered Stephan Gekle at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and colleagues.

These included attaching the models to carrier rockets and accelerating them to supersonic speeds.

Since no volume of air moves against another at supersonic speed, shock waves never form.

That technology relies on retrorockets at supersonic speeds to decelerate the vehicle as it travels through an atmosphere.

It's two jet engines generate 110,000 horsepower — about a thousand times more than a Ford Escort — guzzle 5 gallons of fuel a second, and take about thirty seconds to get the 54 - foot - long, 7 - ton car up to supersonic speeds.

Sonoluminescence, the puzzling glow emitted by a bubble in a field of high - pitched sound waves, may be caused by a tiny jet of liquid that shoots across the interior of the bubble at supersonic speed and slams into the opposite side, a Johns Hopkins researcher has proposed.

The fluid gathers pace to supersonic speed and you realise no one can even hear you scream.

Even at takeoff, the fuel exhaust shoots out the back at supersonic speeds, and when it hits the surrounding air, it creates shock waves that make a fearsome racket.

Since they move at supersonic speeds, shock waves form around them.

Their supercomputer simulation showed that the mass of the falling cosmic body turned into an expanding jet of high - temperature gas traveling at supersonic speeds.

Some experimental reentry vehicles were built back in the 1960s and 1970s that used rotating blades to slow them down from supersonic speeds.

As a drop strikes a surface, liquid begins to spread sideways at supersonic speed, creating a shockwave.

Candidate materials for this type of flexible heat shield, in addition to fabrics for Mars - mission parachutes deployed at supersonic speeds, are being tested with X-rays at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) and with other techniques.

It's not clear whether Europa's plumes, like those on Enceladus, are triggered by icy surfaces of a surface fracture rubbing together — somewhat akin to the sides of a tectonic fault scraping past one another — or whether they represent water vapor spewing from Europa's subsurface ocean through narrow cracks in the moon's polar ice at supersonic speeds, Roth says.

Geysers of vapor — a couple of hundred kilometers tall and possibly erupting at supersonic speeds — occasionally spew from the south polar regions of Europa, one of Jupiter's ice - covered moons, a new study suggests.

Engineer Barbara Wyslouzil of Ohio State University and colleagues made the cubed ice by shooting nitrogen and water vapor through nozzles at supersonic speeds.

The planet's shock wave would be pushed in front of it as it orbits at supersonic speeds, and the wave would absorb some of the UV light emitted from the star.