Crossword clues for reentry
reentry
- Tense time for an astronaut
- Spacecraft's back-to-Earth phase
- Space shot finale
- Space flight event
- Sometimes-dramatic NASA event
- Shuttle's return
- Shuttle-flight phase
- Shuttle flight return
- Shuttle flight phase
- Rocky phase of spaceflight
- Rocket's return
- Rocket return
- Return of Atlantis, say
- Return of a spacecraft to the earth's atmosphere
- Return into Earth's atmosphere
- Pre-landing period
- Phase near the end of a space flight
- Part of an Apollo mission
- Part of a spaceflight
- Mission milestone
- It may end with a splashdown
- Homestretch for a certain shuttle
- Capsule ordeal
- Astronauts' descent to Earth
- Astronaut's homecoming
- An ace in the dummy, for instance
- Admission back in
- Rocket flight event
- NASA concern
- NASA homecoming
- Point in a space shuttle's trip
- Period of radio silence
- Orbital decay result
- Event near the end of a mission
- The act of entering again
- Spaceman's finale
- Part of an astronaut's trip
- Part of an astronaut's flight
- Spaceship's home stretch
- Critical rocket maneuver
- Never flipping attempt a return to this planet!
- Begrudge losing second railway, putting in again?
- Inexperienced, not beginning to attempt part of space mission
- Spacecraft's return
- Rocket's comeback
- Pre-splashdown stage
- NASA activity
- What a hand stamp permits at a concert
- Space travel element
- Space shot segment
- Space capsule transition
- Shuttle ordeal
- What a stamped hand allows
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reentry \Re*["e]n"try\ (-tr?), n.
A second or new entry; as, a re["e]ntry into public life.
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(Law) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
--Burrill.Card of re["e]try, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of reentering. 2 The return of a spacecraft into the atmosphere. 3 (context physiology English) The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse 4 A resume or retake possession of what one has lately foregone, especially land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
WordNet
n. the act of entering again
Wikipedia
Reentry can have several meanings:
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Atmospheric entry, the movement of human-made or natural objects as they enter the atmosphere of a planet from outer space
- Skip reentry
- Reentrant tuning, an effect that occurs with a break in the sequence of pitches to which the strings of a stringed instrument are tuned
- Reentrant dysrhythmia, a type of cardiac arrhythmia
- Reentry (neural circuitry) in neuroscience
Reentry is a neural structuring of the brain, specifically in humans, which is hypothesized to allow for widely distributed groups of neurons to achieve integrated and synchronized firing, which is proposed to be a requirement for consciousness, as outlined by Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi in their book ''A Universe of Consciousness ''(2000).
Usage examples of "reentry".
It was impossible to access a microsat, to modulate the shielding to prevent burnup on reentry, and then guide it to earth with such pinpoint accuracy that an attacking force less than fifty meters from the Resistance fighters would be wiped out, yet leave the other group untouched.
No matter how exactly a Beamspace course is plotted, the reentry point into Space-3 can be off by several light-minutes.
In the end they had to cut a gaping hole around the affected material, leaving the astro to do a decompressed reentry to the shuttle.
The great shipyards beyond the orbit of Uranus fashioned the comet-grown lumber into starships, space stations, habitats, intrasystem linerseverything except the small craft designed for atmospheric reentry.
Like the adult barnacle, the exterior of the ring was dotted with light-sensitive photophores, and when a suitable place for attachment was sensed, the ring colony was able to orient itself by means of excretions sprayed through pores in the skin of the tube, a method not dissimilar to that utilized by orbital vessels when aligning themselves for reentry.
The explosion damaged the navigational guidance system and forced Frank Bellwether, its skipper, to try an eyeball insertion, a seat-of-the-pants reentry.
They drove in silence directly back to their apartment in Champaign and went through the same cautious routine of reentry.
The first was this: Two thousand years after the Great Failure, it was still standard decontamination procedure to abandon in orbit any vehicle that had landed on the Martian surface, and, if possible, to send it on a destructive reentry path, to prevent any attempt by salvage crews who might be unwise enough to try and scavenge a lander left in orbit.
Once the decontamination run was over, the Rio was supposed to put the Sao Paulo into a destructive reentry trajectory, then fly back to the Cruzeiro do Sul.
Its MEM would descend from orbit and go through reentry, and then, about six miles up and still traveling faster than sound, it would sprout a ballute—a cross between a balloon and a parachute, a huge, inflatable sail that would grab at the thin air.
On the hatch's inner surface, safe from reentry friction and corrosive atmospheres, were the painted blazons of her co-owners: the pearl roundel of Governor Halys, and the bright orange banderol—the oriflamme—of Councilor Frederic Duneen.
I think she reached brennschluss about six inches to the right of a standard piano keyboard, and coasted for another octave or two more before she reached apogee and began reentry.
Any meteor might be Cavorite in reentry, or Argos among the asteroids, making a few seconds' burn.
That gave the coxswains the space they needed to rein in the reentry vehicles without risking collision.
That gave the coxswains the space to bring their reentry vehicles under control without risking collision.