* boost phase: 3 to 5 minutes ( shorter for a solid rocket than for a liquid-propellant rocket ); altitude at the end of this phase is typically 150 to 400 km depending on the trajectory chosen, typical burnout speed is 7 km / s, up to the speed of Low Earth Orbit.

BSTS was part of the SDIO in the late 1980s, and was designed to assist detection of missile launches, especially during the boost phase.

The aerospike, a telescoping outward extension that halves aerodynamic drag, is then deployed, and the boost phase begins.

The boost converter attempts to maintain a constant DC bus voltage on its output while drawing a current that is always in phase with and at the same frequency as the line voltage.

After the boost phase the bus maneuvers using small on-board rocket motors and a computerised inertial guidance system.

The intercept-capability was a 2-tiered use of SM-3's in the boost phase and Patriot AC-3's in the event of re-entry in Japanese airspace during a potential failure.

However, after a successful boost the missile failed to transition to the sustain phase of flight.

The air intakes and the port covers which seal the intake diffusors from the ramcombustor remain closed during the boost phase.

For example, today's most advanced navigation systems are embodied within the Anti-ballistic missile, the RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 leverages GPS, IMU and ground segment data in the boost phase and relative position data for intercept targeting.

Alternatively, unexpected improvements in a country terms of trade can lead to a boost in consumption and investment generating the rapid expansion we observe during the boom phase.

Instead of nuclear warheads, the BAMBI missiles would deploy huge wire meshes designed to disable Soviet ICBMs in their early launch phase ( the " boost phase ").

One major object of study is a boost-phase defense, meaning a system to intercept missiles while they are in their boost phase.

In 2002, NMD was changed to Ground-Based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ), to differentiate it from other missile defense programs, such as space-based, sea-based, and defense targeting the boost phase and the reentry phase ( see flight phases ).

Boost-phase defense is significantly harder against the current solid-fueled ICBMs, because their boost phase is shorter.

The old Brilliant Pebbles project — although it did not apply to the boost phase — estimated the number at 4, 000 smaller orbital launchers.

These lamps often need a " boost voltage " during the trigger phase, to overcome the extremely high trigger impedance.

For a defense system, decoys and chaff for ICBMs would mainly work in mid-course: during the boost phase they would be inside the rocket, because separate rockets for each of many decoys would not be practical, while at atmospheric reentry light decoys and chaff considerably slow down and / or are destroyed in the atmosphere.

Diesel engines can also tolerate much higher levels of boost pressure than Otto cycle engines, because only air is being compressed during the compression phase, and fuel is injected later, removing the knocking issue entirely.

The length of the fuel lead was dependent upon the length of the Saturn V first stage boost phase.

The supersonic flight regime is of primary interest during the boost phase of a flight, and the subsonic mode when gliding.

It has several distinct display modes for different phases of flight, including the boost phase, coast, reentry, and gliding.

Ibn Idhari wrote that the name was suggested by Ibn Yasin in the " persevering in the fight " sense, to boost morale after a particularly hard-fought battle in the Draa valley c. 1054, in which they had taken many losses.

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

Dunn, who was tied for the major league lead with 32 home runs, was expected to provide a significant boost to an offense that has struggled to score runs for most of the season.

" It concluded, among other things, that Head Start programs designed to boost African-American IQ scores had failed, and that this was likely never to be remedied, largely because, in Jensen's estimation, 80 % of the variance in IQ in the population studied was the result of genetic factors and the remainder was due to environmental influences.

" The battle itself did not end the civil war but it was decisive and gave Caesar a much needed boost in legitimacy.

When the Soviet Union broke up in late 1991, a major boost to Cuba's economy was lost, leaving it essentially paralyzed because of the economy's narrow basis, focused on just a few products with just a few buyers.

The vehicle was designed to boost to 28 km altitude and glide a distance of 280 km, but test flights in 1934 and 1936 only reached an altitude of 500 meters.

Coleco licensed Nintendo's Donkey Kong as the official pack-in cartridge for all ColecoVision consoles, and this version of the game was well received as a near-perfect arcade port, helping to boost the console's popularity.

The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 was passed in order to boost local production, requiring that cinemas show a certain percentage of British films.

The neck pick-up was sent to one amp and set for a clean, bass-heavy tone, which then ran into two Ampeg V4b 215 cabs, while the bridge pick-up was sent to the other amp which was set with an exaggerated treble boost, and extra gain in the preamp and was sent into two Thiele 215 cabs.

As London grew, Hertfordshire became conveniently close to the English capital ; much of the area was owned by the nobility and aristocracy, this patronage helped to boost the local economy.

It was a great morale boost for West Berliners, who lived in an exclave deep inside East Germany and feared a possible East German occupation.

The paper industry, which mainly traded in US dollars, was often blamed for demanding these devaluations to boost their exports.

It was originally meant to boost the morale of Polish soldiers serving under General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski in the Polish Legions, which were part of the French Revolutionary Army led by General Napoléon Bonaparte in its conquest of Italy.

The ECA's official mission statement was to give a boost to the European economy: to promote European production, to bolster European currency, and to facilitate international trade, especially with the United States, whose economic interest required Europe to become wealthy enough to import U. S. goods.

By 1912, the discovery of vitamins was a boost for Marmite, as the spread is a rich source of the vitamin B complex ; vitamin B < sub > 12 </ sub > is not naturally found in yeast extract, but is added to Marmite during manufacture.

Miyazaki has used traditional animation throughout the animation process, though computer-generated imagery was employed starting with Princess Mononoke to give " a little boost of elegance ".

The process of rural self-sufficiency was given an abrupt boost in the eighth century, when normal trade in the Mediterranean Sea was disrupted.

He would usually consume four or five smaller meals a day rather than a couple of large meals, and would boost his metabolism by eating small healthy snacks such as fruits throughout the day.

The serialisation of the story in the Daily Express in 1957 provided a boost in the sales of the book, although the biggest jump in sales was to follow four years later.

This length is preserved under any Lorentz boost or rotation in four dimensions, just like the ordinary length of a vector is preserved under rotations.

* Propulsion: Two side-mounted ramjet engines ; four solid propellant boost motors

The song won Pink's first Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, and provided a boost for the four performers ' careers.

Analysts suggest that if women have the same access to productive resources as men, women could boost yield by 20 – 30 percent ; raising the overall agricultural output in developing countries by two and a half to four percent.

The four objectives of the operation ( which evolved over time ) were to boost the sagging morale of the Saigon regime in the Republic of Vietnam, to persuade North Vietnam to cease its support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam without actually taking any ground forces into communist North Vietnam, to destroy North Vietnam's transportation system, industrial base, and air defenses, and to cease the flow of men and material into South Vietnam.

In accordance with the government plans to boost housing supply, due to the rising population, there has been an increase in new housing developments in Aston Clinton: The Burnhams ( 19 dwellings ), Stratford Close ( 20 dwellings, 28 flats near the surgery, four detached houses to the south of London Road Pavilion Gardens ( 14 dwellings ) and The Willows ( three large detached houses ).

During the mid sixties the Football League introduced a minimum admission price for all clubs in all four divisions, attempting to help boost revenue for lower clubs.

Three seconds after launch, as the four boost rockets fall away, it has reached Mach 2. 5 which is roughly 1, 800 mph "

On turbocharger equipped cars, there was also a vacuum / boost gauge and a message center that monitored four vehicle functions, door ajar, washer fluid level, etc.

His position on the current provisional rankings received a huge boost with a run to the venue stage of the China Open thanks to four straight qualifying victories.

Brainstorming, they decided that the best approach was to make a minor upgrade to Rocketdyne's existing 175, 000 lbf engines to boost them to, and use eight of these new H-1 engines instead of four E-1s.

It received the hydraulic brake boost system from the RS and Turbo 3. 6 ( normal Speedsters used the vacuum boost system from the Carrera 2 ) along with the same brakes as the Turbo 3. 6 ; with four pot Brembo calipers ( painted black ) and cross drilled and vented 322mm, 32mm wide disks at the front and 299mm, 24mm at the rear.

Button A,: Releases four jacks to boost the car up so that it can be repaired.

In January 1958, Max Faget and Paul Purser had worked out in considerable detail on paper how to cluster four of the solid-fuel Sergeant rockets, in standard use at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, to boost a manned nose cone above the stratosphere.

Unable to retrieve it, NASA engineers tracked the tool, and decided to use Discoverys thrusters on 14 March to boost the station four kilometers higher, to ensure the ISS would not collide with the piece of space debris.

His campaign organization was initially weak, but received an unexpected boost from four of Robarts ' senior advisors.

Through that false flag operation the Soviet Union gained a great propaganda boost and a casus belli for launching the Winter War four days later.

Thought to be one of the top four ministries ( with defense, interior, and finance ), Levy believed that the new post would boost his chances of gaining the Likud chairmanship.

To help boost sales, Square Enix decided to release the game with a bonus DVD in the United States containing the second and third episodes of season two ( episode 27 " Teacher " and 28 " One is All, All is One ") of the Fullmetal Alchemist anime series, since the show took a four month break in its Adult Swim broadcast.

Throughout the 1990s Laney continued to build on its reputation for innovation: by the middle of the decade products such as the VC30 were released ( a retro-style Class A valve combo reminiscent of the famous Vox AC30, but with more features ), the VC50 / VC100 combos with two channels, each with a separate boost for adding more gain and volume effectively offering a player four different sounds, and the single channel GH50L / GH100L stacks, which are among the best-selling models ever made by the company.

Numbers received a boost in 1997 when free primary education was made available for four children per family.