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UK
/splˈæʃdaʊn/
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NOUN
- a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight
How To Use splashdown In A Sentence
- The exact timing of the splashdown was yet unclear and depended on the state of the sun.
- The only genuine parts of the whole televised event were the blast-off and splashdown.
- First of all, can you tell us a little bit about the process and the sequence of events leading to the actual splashdown?
- Sadly, only two of the six passengers survived the splashdown.
- The aircraft then glided to a splashdown into the Pacific Ocean.
- An eastern site was preferred for Apollo 11, which would leave a western site for backup, but too far east would require a night splashdown on the return to Earth.
- NASA is anticipating a splashdown rather than a landing. Falling Satellite: NASA Tries To Predict Where And When It Will Hit Earth (VIDEO)
- It records 2 frames a second from launch pad to splashdown, and it completely replaces existing technology.
- This is the final splashdown for students who have spent months designing, building and testing remote-controlled devices that operate underwater. Underwater Robots Compete in NASA Astronaut Training Tank
- After much planning, the Russian space agency decided to send Mir through Earth's atmosphere, breaking it apart into small pieces before its final splashdown in the South Pacific.