Definition of "nosecone" [nosecone]

• Alternative spelling of nose cone. (noun)

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• "You want these things incorporated in every cargo and human rated rocket going up there, and fortunately they can be - it's called the nosecone aeroshield, and every rocket payload has one."
• "A picture of the missile shows a big nosecone which is typical for a satellite launcher and atypical for a ballistic missile."
• "It's a one way trip, therefore your attitude control and reentry vectors can be and are unidirectional, out the back of the nosecone, and it's basically a trip of only several hours, something a space suited astronaut can get in and bail out when things can and do go wrong, which greatly simplifies the design of these things."