External Tank
Key Facts
Abbreviation
ET
Pronunciation
/ɪkˈstərnəl tæŋk/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
NASA
Examples in Context
- Engineers have been working on fixing the foam on the shuttle's external tank.
- 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.
- 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.
- A new approach of impressed current cathodic protection for external tank bottom has been developed.
- 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
And
Medical
Education Technology
Academic
Electric Toothbrush
Business
Educational Technologies
Academic
Economic Times
Misc
Environmental Technology
Academic
Emissions Trading
Business
Energy Transfer
Gov