Rockets and Missiles
Within the communities for rockets and missile, the cable running to provide power for the rocket or missile and signals/ communications to its computer and or electronics. Frequently to the physical observation it is a single physical cable, within it there can be more than a hundred different wires, each one used for a particular signal to the missile.
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Famous quotes containing the words rockets and/or missiles:
“The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. After the war, everyone had a car—no wings for it—and the promised superhighway to drive it down, so that the sky itself darkened, and the fumes ate the marble and pitted the miracle crystal.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Our missiles always make too short an arc:
They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect
The curve of earth, and striking, break their own;”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)