spacecraft
space·craft (spās′kraft′, -kräft′)
noun pl. -·craft′
any vehicle, satellite, etc. designed to orbit the earth or travel through the solar system
spacecraft
n.
Converse of object
- orbit: Once in their orbiting spacecraft, they will circle the Earth once every 90 minutes.
- launch: To launch spacecraft its own apart be Anthony Diaz Insurance Service in space team of five.
- build: A selection of scratch built spacecraft based on Space 1999 which were built in the early 1980's.
- send: These include sites where children can enter competitions or have their names sent onboard spacecraft.
- pass: Arthur's only chance for survival is to hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft.
Adjective modifier
- unmanned: NASA's scientific investigation of the Solar System is being accomplished mainly through the use of unmanned automated spacecraft.
- interplanetary: Anyone who expects an unequivocal statement that the UFOs are interplanetary spacecraft is surely being a little naive, to say the least.
- extraterrestrial: The null hypothesis is that not one of the available UFO reports represents a genuine sighting of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
- alien: The alien spacecraft sits on a desolate plain on a distant planet.
- Soviet: The Moon was first visited by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959.
- identical: GRACE can measure changes in the separation of two identical spacecraft in the same orbit approximately 220 kilometers apart.
Preposition: into
- orbit: NASA scientists still have six months ' work to do to put the spacecraft into an almost circular two-hour orbit.
Modifies a noun
- mission: We would also accept the risks involved in a four spacecraft mission.
- clock: The Earth location data which is appended to the Level 1b data is based on the spacecraft clock time.
- observation: The derived open-closed field line boundary can be combined with appropriate field line mapping to place spacecraft observations into their magnetospheric context.
- structure: The purpose of such systems is to reduce, or eliminate, gravity loading on large spacecraft structures during ground testing.
- operation: They will allow engineers to evaluate the advantages of autonomous spacecraft operation.
- design: This text provides a systems eye view of robotic spacecraft design with an emphasis on control systems.
Noun used with modifier
- Ulysses: But now, the unique Ulysses spacecraft may give scientists a reality check.
Preposition: in
- orbit: An example would be, say a flake of paint was to hit a spacecraft in orbit at this speed.
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