How to Use unpiloted in a Sentence

unpiloted

adjective
  • But for the most part, the vehicle has flown unpiloted.
    Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Then SpaceX plans to fly an unpiloted demonstration mission to land Starship on the Moon, ahead of the first crew flight.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Aboard the unpiloted spacecraft will be three mannequins.
    Emre Kelly, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • On Tuesday, Bezos plans to be part of a four-person crew on an unpiloted spacecraft built by Blue Origin that will take an 11-minute ride to the edge of space.
    Alison Kosik, CNN, 15 July 2021
  • The designers said the new design could be converted to an unpiloted version and a two-seat model.
    Fox News, 21 July 2021
  • Drafts can’t disclose themselves, liquor stores can’t self-immolate and unpiloted trucks can’t turn around to run over people.
    WSJ, 14 July 2022
  • The rocket engine problem stalled plans to launch the SLS rocket and its unpiloted Orion spacecraft on an ambitious 42-day test flight around the moon.
    Tariq Malik, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The historic launch was the first unpiloted suborbital flight with all civilian passengers, and the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
    NBC News, 20 July 2021
  • The company plans a second unpiloted test flight in a couple months; the first one suffered so many software problems that the Starliner capsule failed to reach the space station.
    Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Indian officials plan more tests of the launch abort system next year, along with an unpiloted Gaganyaan mission into orbit.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • SpaceX completed an unpiloted test flight of its own Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2019 and successfully flew two astronauts to the space station the following year.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 19 May 2022
  • The billionaire entrepreneur made history by being part of the first unpiloted suborbital flight with an all-civilian crew.
    NBC News, 20 July 2021
  • This is the Rapture, when believers will be swept up to heaven, leaving behind empty beds, unpiloted planes, half-mown lawns, and unmanned information kiosks, before the coming of Antichrist.
    Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • SpaceX's huge Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, blasted off on an unpiloted maiden flight Thursday and successfully flew for more than two minutes before tumbling out of control and exploding in a cloud of flaming debris.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023

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