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    Space Shuttle Enterprise (category Test spaceflights)
    Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank (VMGVT-ET), which in turn was attached...
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    October 1977 to test the vehicle's flight characteristics. Of the sixteen taxi-tests and flights, eleven saw Enterprise remain mated to the Shuttle Carrier...
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    Ground Test Article (GTA) stack, located at Lockheed Martin in Denver, Colorado, was undergoing vibration testing. It is made up of the Orion Ground Test...
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  • The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital...
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    flight in the United States' Apollo Program and the second test of the Saturn V launch vehicle. It qualified the Saturn V for use on crewed missions, and...
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    The Saturn V dynamic test vehicle, designated SA-500D, is a prototype Saturn V rocket used by NASA to test the performance of the rocket when vibrated...
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    strongly than locally contained forms of motion, such as rotation or vibration. As another example, internal stresses in a rotating baseball cause the...
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    McLaren F1 (category McLaren vehicles)
    and some mis-shifting. Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire, 2-mile (3.2 km) banked circuit, top speed test: An average speed of 195.3 mph (314.3 km/h)...
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    Boilerplate (spaceflight) (category Test spaceflights)
    MSFC in Huntsville, Alabama for use in the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Test. This would see Enterprise mated to an empty External Tank and dummy Solid...
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    Koenigsegg Jesko (category Koenigsegg vehicles)
    with 3 fixed gears which is mated to a secondary shaft with 3 gears fixed to the output shaft and 3 clutched gears mated to the input shaft and an output...
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    the vibration problem. In the Kiwi B4D test on 13 May 1964, the reactor was automatically started and briefly run at full power with no vibration problems...
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    Tire balance (category Vehicle technology)
    the tire is not checked, it has the potential to cause vibration in the suspension of the vehicle on which it is mounted. In tire retail shops, tire/wheel...
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    Space Shuttle (category NASA space launch vehicles)
    shake tests in the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Test, where it was attached to an external tank and solid rocket boosters, and underwent vibrations to...
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    autoloader inside the bustle; the second vehicle, codenamed Phase II, used the same turret as basis, but mated it to a brand new M1 hull altered to contain...
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    launch vehicle. It was also the first test of the new tracking and communication systems for the Gemini program and provided training for the ground support...
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    high altitude 50,000 feet (15.2 km), endure 500 hours of salt spray, vibration testing (functional and endurance), shock (30 g's), and temperatures from...
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    Subaru Outback (category Subaru vehicles)
    air suspension, which allowed the driver to temporarily increase the vehicle's ground clearance, however the permanent increased ride height used on the...
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    with the fuselage and wings mated together in early May 2016. The demonstrator aircraft began ground vibration testing in Amarillo in February 2017,...
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    Center, Florida. Vert. (stg 1 mated to stg 1 above) SM-?? (stg. 1 only) Science Museum, Bayamon, Puerto Rico Vert. (stg 1 mated to stg 1 below) SM-?? (stg...
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    devices. Vibration in industrial machinery is monitored by accelerometers. Seismometers are sensitive accelerometers for monitoring ground movement such...
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    protect machinery from overload and jam, and damp and isolate noise and vibration. Load fluctuations are shock-absorbed (cushioned). They need no lubrication...
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    Space Launch System (category NASA space launch vehicles)
    is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed...
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    display is made up of Apollo Command and Service Module 105 (used for vibration testing for the Skylab program), the back-up Docking Module, and a model of...
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    were initially received prior to being mated to their launch vehicles. The Apollo spacecraft could be tested in two vacuum chambers capable of simulating...
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    amplification of the human voice or other sound. The minimum ground or structure borne vibrational motion necessary to cause a person of normal sensitivity...
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    ground vibrations from railways; vibration isolation to reduce vibration in operating theatres; studying how vibration can damage health (vibration white...
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    M113 armored personnel carrier (category BAE Systems land vehicles)
    to convert four M113s into unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) by late 2019 to serve in experimentation roles to test unmanned movement and combat concepts...
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    devoted to the Apollo Program, with the Saturn family of launch vehicles designed and tested at MSFC. MSFC also had a major role in post-Apollo activities...
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    carry a crew, though it was preceded by atmospheric testing (ALT) of the orbiter and ground testing of the Space Shuttle system. The launch occurred on...
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    Instrumentation and measurement Manufacturing engineering, technology, or processes Vibration, control theory and control engineering Hydraulics and Pneumatics Mechatronics...
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