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UK
/spˈeɪskɹɑːft/
]
[ US /ˈspeɪsˌkɹæft/ ]
[ US /ˈspeɪsˌkɹæft/ ]
NOUN
- a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun
How To Use spacecraft In A Sentence
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
- Electrical devices on spacecrafts, satellites, and aircraft must work reliably and efficiently in situations where they can not be easily repaired.
- Mumma pulled up a map that showed where methane had been found and where the Mars Global Surveyor, a spacecraft that orbited Mars from 1997 to 2006, found the weak remnants of what had once been a strong magnetic field. First Contact
- The spacecraft's mass at launch was some 13 tonnes, most of which was the propellants unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO). BBC News - Home
- Physicist and ufologist Stan Friedman argues that it's overwhelmingly likely that some UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft. Posthuman Blues
- For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators.
- Mission control ordered the spacecraft to return to earth.
- Inside a spacecraft in orbit round the Earth an astronaut could float weightless, hardly in contact with the floor.
- The most significant of these may be the use of helium-3 in spacecraft propulsion, in a fusion rocket.