Aerostat

Definition of the noun Aerostat

What does Aerostat mean as a name of something?

noun - plural: aerostats

1. An aircraft, such as a dirigible or balloon, that derives its lift from buoyancy rather than from wings or rotors.
   • antonym: aerodyne
2. A moored balloon flown in a semi-permanent manner, as a border patrol monitoring balloon affixed at 18,000 feet (~6km).

Explanation

Aerostat: An aerostat is a lighter than air craft that gains its lift through the use of a buoyant gas. Aerostats include unpowered balloons and powered airships. A balloon may be free-flying or tethered. An aerostat's main component is one or more gasbags, a lightweight skin containing a lifting gas to provide buoyancy, to which other components such as a gondola containing equipment or people are attached. Especially with airships, the gasbags are often protected by an outer envelope. One of the most recent deployments of an aerostat was seen at the opening ceremony of the nineteenth 2010 Commonwealth Games, held in Delhi, India. The aerostat used in the ceremony was the largest in the world.

• also known as tethered radar balloons

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The Encyclopedia of Aerodynamics (2015)

by Frank Hitchens

An aerostat is a lighterthanair craft, which includes freefloating hotair balloons, airships and dirigibles. The word dirigible is a French word meaning directable or steerable. Aerostats use aerostatic lift that is buoyant in the atmosphere at ...

Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence (2014)

by Michael A. Turner

Aerostat is a military term for a new generation of surveillance balloons. These balloons have become part of a widening array of devices, such as drones, camera towers, and a network of street-level closedcircuit cameras that have allowed ...

Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion (2017)

Theory and Practice, Second Edition by Martin Liggins II, David Hall, James Llinas

An aerostat is a static, tethered airship similarly with fitted sensor payload. The joint land attack cruise missile defense elevated ...

Floating Islands (2015)

An Activity Book by Richard Heggen

An aerostat is a vehicle held aloft by a balloon filled with lighter-than-air gas. An " Aerial Ship" supported by four copper spheres from which the air is evacuated, as Louis Guillaume de La Follie 1775 science envisioned by Francesco Lana de ...

Airship Technology (2012)

by Gabriel Alexander Khoury

Aerostat An aerostat is a conventional airship of very large dimensions, sustained predominantly by aerostatic lift. A current design is the SkyLifter, which benefits from the experience of the CargoLifter, especially the CL75 Aircrane, both of ...

The Great Airships of Count Zeppelin

by Werner Behrends

Aerostat An aerostat is an aircraft whichremain aloftusing buoyancy or static lift, as opposed to ...

Popular Mechanics (1908)

An Illustrated Weekly Review of the Mechanical Press of the World

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Beef Production and Management Decisions (2016)

by CTI Reviews

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Understanding Physics, Part 2 (2016)

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College Physics (2016)

by CTI Reviews

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Radiation Physics for Medical Physicists (2016)

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Mesoscopic Physics of Electrons and Photons (2016)

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University Physics (2016)

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Atom Caesium Distribution Mean An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air. The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense, central ...

Physics - (2016)

by CTI Reviews

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Sears and Zemansky's University Physics (2016)

by CTI Reviews

An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air. The mass recorded by a mass spectrometer can refer to different physical quantities depending on the ...

Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (2016)

by CTI Reviews

An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air. Lattice Hypotheticodeductive model Vortex Motion In mathematics, a lattice is.

The Physics of Particle Detectors (2016)

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Hugh D. Young (2016)

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Physics, Volume I (2016)

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An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air. In classical mechanics, an impulse is defined as the integral of a force with respect to time. When a force ...

Essential University Physics (2016)

by CTI Reviews

An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air. A fluid flowing past the surface of a body exerts a surface force on it. Lift is defined to be the component ...

Molecular Driving Forces, Statistical Thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Nanoscience (2016)

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An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through.

Fundamentals of Physics (2016)

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Deep Space Craft (2016)

by CTI Reviews

An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use of buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air. a. critical mass density b. Circumlunar trajectory c. Flight d. Closed ecological system Chapter 1.

A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics (2016)

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An aerostat is a system that remains aloft primarily through the use buoyancy to give an aircraft that has the same overall density as air ln physics, a force is any influence that causes a free body to under change in speed, a change in direction, ...

Fundamentals of Physics, Extended (2016)

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Radiation exposure An aerostat is a system that remains aloft.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, (2016)

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1000 Plus Questions on General Science for GS Paper I

by MHE

An aerostat is a structure filled with buoyant gases that are higher than air. It could be a hot air balloon, the more common moored balloon on an air ship.

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Scrabble value of A₁E₁R₁O₁S₁T₁A₁T₁

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