NOUN
- a rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observation
How To Use space probe In A Sentence
- Despite serious technical obstacles, space agency officials are considering whether to launch a Jupiter space probe powered entirely by sunlight.
- European space boffins are chuffed to announce that they have successfully 'surfed' the atmosphere of Venus, during a so-called 'aerodrag' experiment in which the solar panels of a space probe functioned as aerofoils skimming the top of the second planet's atmosphere. The Register
- Despite serious technical obstacles, space agency officials are considering whether to launch a Jupiter space probe powered entirely by sunlight.
- Space probes parked in orbit round the sun might lie dormant yet intact for an immense period of time.
- Information from the Galileo space probe about Jupiter's atmosphere has left theorists baffled.
- For this reason, electric currents can be induced within fast-moving metal space probes.
- The launch of a space probe today on a quest to make the first ever landing on a comet will be eagerly watched by the Chippenham team responsible for designing the project's software.
- Three of our space probes have left the solar system altogether and are now adrift in interstellar space, carrying earthlings' assorted greetings to whoever stumbles upon them.
- He wants to give space probes the same access to the internet as the sensors in his wine cellar. Times, Sunday Times
- We should also have rememberances for the robotic space probes that conked out in the line of duty, whether they were blown up by the rocket taking them into space, or died before their time on some distant alien planet. Remembering - NASA Watch
