unmanned spacecraft

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unmanned
adjective
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/ʌnˈmænd/us
/ʌnˈmænd/
used to refer to a spacecraft, or a place where military guards work, that has no people present to operate or be in charge ...
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spacecraft
noun[C]
uk
/ˈspeɪs.krɑːft/us
/ˈspeɪs.kræft/
a vehicle used for travel ...
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Delivering food and supplies to pioneers viaunmannedspacecraftis less expensive than designing an immediate return trip.
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In recent years they have become important as reserve batteries for manned andunmannedspacecraft.
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Solar experiments included photographs of eight solar flares, and produced valuable results that scientists stated would have been impossible to obtain withunmannedspacecraft.
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Attempts to send throughunmannedspacecraftall fail, and some manned ones are simply never picked up for reasons unknown.
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Such direct ascents use a minimum amount of fuel forunmannedspacecrafton a one-way trip.
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Unmannedspacecraftmay have varying levels of autonomy from human input, they may be remote controlled, remote guided or even autonomous (robotic).
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The facility is used to determine and minimize the magnetic movement ofunmannedspacecraftand to calibrate flight magnetometers.
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The flyby was the first time anunmannedspacecrafthad imaged the asteroid so closely.
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Work withunmannedspacecraftwas minimal.
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It was the worlds first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm, and also the firstunmannedspacecraft to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully.
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