Umbilical Cable

An umbilical cable or umbilical is a cable which supplies required consumables to an apparatus. It is named by analogy with an umbilical cord. An umbilical can for example supply air and power to a pressure suit or hydraulic power, electrical power and fiber optics to a subsea equipment.

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Umbilical Cable - 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 ... 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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