re-entry vehicle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But a space launch system doesn’t include a re-entry vehicle with heat shielding that could protect a potential nuclear payload over an intercontinental distance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
In a press conference on Friday, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore appeared happy and healthy after being told by Nasa to stay onboard the ISS due to potential faults with their Boeing Starliner re-entry vehicle.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
Even so, questions still hang over the viability of North Korea’s re-entry vehicle – the protected warhead that re-enters the atmosphere – and its missile guidance systems.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
The Monday statement said the lead interceptor “destroyed the re-entry vehicle, as it was designed to do.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2019
Perhaps North Korea’s biggest challenge, experts say, is to show it can produce a re-entry vehicle robust enough to prevent a nuclear warhead burning up when it hurtles back into the Earth’s atmosphere.
From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2018
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