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 spacecraft ['spes`kræft]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 航天飞船



    spacecraft
    [ noun ]
    a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun
    <noun.artifact>


    spacecraft \space"craft\, n.
    a vehicle capable of travelling in or into outer space; at
    present, all such vehicles are powered by rocket engine.
    [PJC]

    1. Twenty-four liquid-fueled thrusters help point the spacecraft and adjust its trajectory.
    2. Scientists now expect the spacecraft to be in and out of touch until controllers can send it new instructions on how to properly aim at Earth, he said.
    3. The oxygen mixes with a kerosene-like propellant to power the spacecraft.
    4. We're not going to have any trouble at all." The Soviet Union is considering a plan to outfit a nuclear-powered spacecraft with three or four reactors in a two-year manned mission to Mars, a Soviet scientist said.
    5. The manned spacecraft Soyuz TM-10 docked with the orbiting Mir space station on Friday, two days after it was launched, the Soviet news agency Tass reported.
    6. The two Soviet spacecraft are to enter the gravitational pull of Mars in January and fall into orbit just behind Phobos for a three-month study of the Martian surface, atmosphere and magnetic field.
    7. Cryodynamics Inc. of Mountainside, N.J., which has been building cooling devices for spacecraft, says it is using that space technology to develop a small home refrigerator that uses inert helium or nitrogen.
    8. Tass gave no other details of the spacecraft's contents.
    9. The $1.7 billion spacecraft is scheduled to become astronomy's most significant tool in expanding knowledge of the universe into the 21st century.
    10. The TDRS relays signals and data between a spacecraft or another satellite and a ground terminal at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., where it then is routed to the appropriate NASA facility.
    11. Their findings appear in Friday's issue of the journal Science, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Pioneer Venus orbiter, a spacecraft that still circles the second planet from the sun.
    12. One of the Magellan spacecraft's backup computers rejected commands when a memory chip failed, but the glitch won't hurt the $744 million exploration of Venus, engineers say.
    13. Indeed, in the five years between 1990 and 1995, spacecraft will churn out as much information as they did in the previous two decades.
    14. "We all certainly breathed a sigh of relief when it went according to plan and we kept hearing all the good news from the ground that the spacecraft had done all the things that it had to do to get on its way," he said.
    15. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said "budgetary pressures" and the lack of a "firm near-term requirement" for the spacecraft influenced its decision.
    16. "Nobody has yet mass-produced spacecraft before," he said.
    17. Galileo also will be the first spacecraft with modern instruments to study the far side of the moon, which is always pointed away from Earth, he added.
    18. The magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology reported in January that the satellite is a "combination" spacecraft carrying digital imaging cameras.
    19. Magellan's radar penetrates the clouds to make pictures 10 times more detailed than those produced by Earth-based radar or radar on the Soviet Venera 15 and 16 spacecraft, which visited Venus in the mid-1980s.
    20. Japan plans to develop an unmanned spacecraft in the next decade and eventually wants to send its own astronauts into space aboard Japanese-made vessels.
    21. During their four-day flight, Atlantis' five astronauts are to release the $378 million Magellan spacecraft from the cargo bay, starting it on a 468-day outward journey to Venus.
    22. The space agency said the focusing problem in the Hubble mirrors cannot be fixed from the ground and at least two of the five instruments aboard the spacecraft will be virtually useless until a repair mission is flown by the space shuttle.
    23. Wieman said the technique could lead to development of portable atomic clocks that could be employed in submarines, spacecraft, and other commercial applications.
    24. It was the first spacecraft to cross the Asteroid Belt, fly past Jupiter and return pictures, chart Jupiter's intense radiation belts, measure the mass of its four planet-sized moons, and discover that Jupiter is predominantly a liquid planet.
    25. The plutonium is in two nuclear-powered generators that provide electricity for the Galileo spacecraft bound for Jupiter.
    26. Confirmation that the spacecraft had separated and was safe in its orbit was delayed by a brief loss of radio contact.
    27. That meant the Soviets have lost touch with both Phobos spacecraft launched at a cost of $480 million.
    28. Richard O. Covey: As we, the crew of Discovery, witness this earthly splendor from America's spacecraft, less than 200 miles separates us from the remainder of mankind.
    29. In Thursday's spacewalk, which lasted four hours and 12 minutes, Titov and Manarov wore new spacesuits that Tass said free cosmonauts from the need to remain tethered to their spacecraft.
    30. Magellan will be the first planetary probe launched from a shuttle as well as the first U.S. planetary mission since two Pioneer spacecraft were dispatched in 1978 to study Venus' atmosphere.
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