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The first reason is that the nose cone (radome) is massive, with the current radar system sitting low, not centered within it, and there is a big structural bulkhead above it.
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
That stage is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 feet tall, and weighing more than 200,000 pounds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Scattered outside are a few solar panels propped on cinder blocks, a firepit, and the nose cone of a dummy practice bomb dropped sometime during the Forties.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Watch On The hands-on experiment/rocket building activity mixes baking soda and vinegar — a classroom-classic acid-base reaction that releases carbon dioxide gas — to propel a two-liter bottle (outfitted with your design of nose cone and fins) high into the air.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
That stage is a silo-like cylinder with a tapered nose cone, measuring 165 feet tall, and weighing more than 200,000 pounds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Scattered outside are a few solar panels propped on cinder blocks, a firepit, and the nose cone of a dummy practice bomb dropped sometime during the Forties.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Watch On The hands-on experiment/rocket building activity mixes baking soda and vinegar — a classroom-classic acid-base reaction that releases carbon dioxide gas — to propel a two-liter bottle (outfitted with your design of nose cone and fins) high into the air.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Nose cone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nose%20cone. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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