External Tank

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ET
Pronunciation
/ɪkˈstərnəl tæŋk/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
NASA

Examples in Context

  1. Engineers have been working on fixing the foam on the shuttle's external tank.
  2. A major exception, the space shuttle orbiter, uses three onboard liquid-fuel main engines supplied by a disposable external tank and a pair of solid-fuel boosters to reach space.
  3. Renovation of the orang-utan enclosure was completed in January. Re-tiling of the fountain in the garden terrace was completed in July. Engineers have been working on fixing the foam on the shuttle's external tank.
  4. A new approach of impressed current cathodic protection for external tank bottom has been developed.
  5. Potential distributions of deep well anodic electric field on external tank bottom were derived according to the basic law of electromagnetic field and the geometry characteristics of cathodic protection system.

Other meanings of ET