• a sound suppression system to absorb or deflect acoustic energy generated during a rocket launch. As engine exhaust gasses exceed the speed of sound, they...
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    rocket exhaust from damaging the vehicle or pad structures, and a sound suppression system spraying large quantities of water may be employed. The pad may...
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    the pad, the mobile launcher platform is connected to the larger sound suppression system by large pipes which deliver a deluge of water from an adjacent...
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    180 dB of noise around its base. To combat this, NASA developed a sound suppression system which can flow water at rates up to 900,000 gallons per minute...
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    2007). "Sound Suppression System". NASA. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved March 22, 2020. Grinter, Kay (August 28, 2000). "Sound Suppression...
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    noise reduction (ANR), is a method for reducing unwanted sound by the addition of a second sound specifically designed to cancel the first. The concept...
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    atop the stack, the mobile launcher platform was fitted with a Sound Suppression System that sprayed 1.1 million litres (290,000 US gal) of water around...
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    changeout room, a new launch tower with escape system for the shuttle crew members, sound suppression system and water reclamation area and a Shuttle Assembly...
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    launchpad itself. To further reduce the acoustic effects a water sound suppression system may be also used. During the Apollo program the need for a flame...
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    structures on the pad. The LH2, LOX, and water tanks used for the sound suppression system are the only structures left from the Space Shuttle era. In 2014...
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    changeout room, a new launch tower with escape system for the shuttle crewmembers, sound suppression system and water reclamation area and a Shuttle Assembly...
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    had trouble landing if the flaps had been damaged. An improved sound suppression system was later installed in LC-39A to damp vibrations. Pilot Crippen...
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    objectives were achieved. Moreover, modifications of the water sound suppression system at the pad, to absorb the solid rocket booster overpressure wave...
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    external tank. A Sound Suppression Water System (SSWS) was added to protect the Space Shuttle and its payload from effects of the intense sound wave pressure...
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  • Precedence effect (category Sound)
    listeners also perceive one sound; its location is determined by the location of the leading sound. Lag discrimination suppression: for short time delays,...
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    pad was built without flame diverters, water deluge systems or sound suppression systems, systems commonly used to prevent damage during liftoff. SpaceX's...
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  • live sound reinforcement system to prevent or suppress audio feedback. Digital feedback reduction is the application of digital techniques to sound reinforcement...
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  • and/or systems, which require a certain amount of motion and response in order to work, contrary to passive fire protection. Manual fire suppression includes...
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    Mixing console (redirect from Sound desk)
    electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems. Inputs to the console include microphones...
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  • Echo suppression and echo cancellation are methods used in telephony to improve voice quality by preventing echo from being created or removing it after...
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    subsonic reaction, whereas a detonation is a supersonic (greater than the sound speed of the material) reaction. Distinguishing between a deflagration or...
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  • residual inhibition, the temporary suppression of tinnitus in response to particular sound patterns. The mechanism of sound masking can be explained by analogy...
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    Muffler (category Exhaust systems)
    exhaust gas pressure, engine fuel efficiency and power, as well as noise suppression.[citation needed] A side effect of noise reduction is the restriction...
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    DI unit (category Sound reinforcement system)
    electronic device typically used in recording studios and in sound reinforcement systems to connect a high output impedance unbalanced output signal to...
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    through the air-fuel faster than sound; while in deflagration, the flame front travels through the air-fuel slower than sound. Detonations occur in both conventional...
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    monitoring and communications equipment Fire suppression systems Sanitation systems The life support system for the bell provides and monitors the main...
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    A radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) is a system for measuring the atmospheric lapse rate using backscattering of radio waves from an acoustic wave...
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  • condition when a person hears a ringing sound or a different variety of sound when no corresponding external sound is present and other people cannot hear...
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  • signals, the system needs no high power combiners and therefore the price and power consumption is considerably lower than that of split sound system of the...
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  • Congress 2013. Smart Sound processors combined the Advanced Voice processor feature set (HD call quality, wideband noise suppression, bandwidth expansion...
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