spacecraft
noun
space·craft
ˈspās-ˌkraft 
: a vehicle or device designed for travel or operation outside the earth's atmosphere
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SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is launched on its sixth test at the company’s Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 19, 2024.
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Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
Of the 10 science instruments Voyager 1 started its journey with, four are currently gathering data on its cosmic environment, and each year, the spacecraft loses more of its precious power supply.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Like a rock skipping across a pond, the spacecraft dips in and out of Earth’s atmosphere, slowing itself with drag and then rising with lift, until finally descending with parachutes for the splashdown.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
The heat shield, which is designed to protect the spacecraft from intense temperatures during its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere, experienced more erosion than initially expected.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
Of the 10 science instruments Voyager 1 started its journey with, four are currently gathering data on its cosmic environment, and each year, the spacecraft loses more of its precious power supply.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Like a rock skipping across a pond, the spacecraft dips in and out of Earth’s atmosphere, slowing itself with drag and then rising with lift, until finally descending with parachutes for the splashdown.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
The heat shield, which is designed to protect the spacecraft from intense temperatures during its fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere, experienced more erosion than initially expected.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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spacecraft
noun
space·craft
ˈspā-ˌskraft
plural spacecraft
: a vehicle for travel beyond the earth's atmosphere
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