How to Use nose cone in a Sentence

nose cone

noun

• The nose cone was moved to the launch site on Wednesday.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2020
• The nose cone houses radar and is much more fragile than the rest of the plane.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
• For this, SpaceX needed to add large flaps to the tank section, and a nose cone.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2020
• The impact severed the nose cone of the second airplane.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2018
• Once the rocket is in space, the nose cone, or payload fairing, splits in half and the pieces fall back to Earth.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 13 July 2018
• The Takeaway The nose cone of a Kinzhal missile seems a lot less threatening on the ground with a large hole in it.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• When the smoke cleared, all that was left of the rocket was a charred and misshapen nose cone resting on the landing pad.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Science, 10 Dec. 2020
• Less than a minute later, the two halves of the nose cone fairing were jettisoned.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2019
• The company tried the trick for the first time in February, but the nose cone piece just missed the boat by a few hundred yards.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018
• Radar in the missiles' nose cones steer the missiles toward their targets.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2015
• SpaceX deploys a parafoil to guide the pieces of the nose cone back to Earth—after all, the payload fairing is worth about $7 million.
  — Robin Seemangal, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2018
• The nose cone is a radome, which is any dome that protects and encloses radar equipment.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
• The red nose cone on Stefan Wilson’s car quickly gives way to a matte black hood.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2022
• Three years later, it was paraded again with a rounder, more blunt nose cone.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2017
• The shuttle trains will be a hit for kids — there are handles for standing at a train’s front, which suggests a nose cone.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Also known as the payload fairing, the nose cone is the bulbous structure that surrounds the satellite at the top of the rocket.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 16 Apr. 2018
• But in January, Musk tweeted that strong winds had damaged the nose cone.
  — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• The top half includes the vehicle’s nose cone, and the aft section is composed of barrels that make up the fuselage.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 July 2019
• One odd aspect of the video: in two clips, the missile’s nose cone is blurred out on the left side, presumably to mask some new high-tech feature.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2018
• The nose cone had separated from the rest of the plane and plowed into a five-foot ditch in the Burkhalters’ side yard, landing upside down.
  — Samme Chittum, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
• That projectile, its nose cone wheeled to the launchpad by a bicycle, put a small payload 124 miles above the Earth.
  — Alex Travelli, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• This time, Elon Musk's company aimed to land the $6 million nose cone into a giant ocean net.
  — Gary Cotton, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
• The top half included its nose cone, and the aft section was composed of barrels making up the fuselage.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2019
• The kit's modifications include plenty of front-end work, from the front lip spoiler to the new nose cone.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 29 Dec. 2021
• The first piece of debris discovered was the vessel’s nose cone—part of a large debris field containing the front end of the pressure hull.
  — Alex Christian, WIRED, 29 June 2023
• It was powered by three Raptors and had a nose cone and stabilizing body flaps.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2020
• That will help workers install the tips of the rockets, known as the forward assembly, which includes the nose cone and forward skirt.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• The first piece of debris discovered was the vessel’s nose cone, then a large debris field containing the front end bell of the pressure hull.
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023
• In the coming weeks, the plane’s nose cone will be taken off and the plane will be put on a semi-truck to be transported back to California.
  — Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2022
• At the launch site, ULA will lift the Centaur upper stage atop its already-in-place first stage, add two strap-on solid rocket boosters, and finally hoist the nose cone and payload on top of the launcher.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023

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