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Encyclopedia: Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle or device designed for spaceflight. On a suborbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters outer space but then returns to Earth without making a complete orbit. For an orbital spaceflight a spacecraft enters a closed orbit around the Earth. Spacecraft used for human spaceflights carry people on board as crew or passengers. Spacecraft used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft that leave the vicinity of the Earth are space probes. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around the Earth are artificial satellites.

Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration, space tourism and space warfare. Spacecraft and space travel are common themes in works of science fiction.

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How to say "Spacecraft" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	航天器
	(Japanese)	宇宙船
	(German)	Raumschiff
	(Spanish)	Nave espacial
	(French)	Véhicule spatial

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Sakigake

Spacecraft Sakigake Sakigake , japanese spacecraft that visited Comet Halley March 11, 1986...

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List of spacecraft

Theses are links to several different lists of spacecraft . Manned spacecraft List of manned spacecraft by name List of manned space missions List of manned space missions chronologically Unmanned spacecraft List of unmanned spacecraft by program Timeline of artificial satellites and space...

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Spacecraft Event Time

Spacecraft Event Time equals to ERT (Earth-received time) minus OWLT (One-Way Light Time...

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Spot Image

Spot Image is a French operator of remote-sensing spacecraft and commercial vendor of space imagery...

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Service module

A spacecraft's service module is a compartment containing a variety of support systems used for spacecraft operations, but not any habitable area. Service modules are jettisoned when they are no... or Batteries to provide power to the spacecraft. (Batteries are also in the part of the spacecraft...

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Spacecraft Markup Language

Spacecraft Markup Language (SML) is an extension of the eXtensible Markup Language designed for the space community. It allows for the definition of spacecraft and other support data objects...

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Thruster

A thruster is a small propulsive device used by spacecraft for station keeping, attitude control, or long duration low thrust acceleration. See also: spacecraft propulsion monopropellant rockets hall effect thruster ion thruster magnetoplasmadynamic thruster pulsed inductive thruster pulsed...

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Space Imaging

Space Imaging , of Thornton, Colorado, is an operator of remote-sensing spacecraft and vendor of space imagery...

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Orbital transfer

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21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Comet Giacobini-Zinner was the target of the International Cometary Explorer spacecraft, which passed through its plasma tail on September 11, 1985...

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