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    Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy from human input...
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    Canada and several other countries. Uncrewed spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board. Uncrewed spacecraft may have varying levels of autonomy...
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    also docked to the outpost following uncrewed launches. Resupply missions typically use the Russian Progress spacecraft, European Automated Transfer Vehicles...
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    usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such...
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    (IAUV) Underwater glider Uncrewed spacecraft, both remote controlled ("uncrewed space mission") and autonomous ("robotic spacecraft" or "space probe") Vehicular...
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    List of the largest fixed satellite operators List of uncrewed spacecraft by program Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station Lists of...
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    the uncrewed Progress cargo spacecraft to resupply its space stations in low earth orbit, greatly extending the length of crew stays. As an uncrewed spacecraft...
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    safety and aerodynamics, the spacecraft is encased within a fairing with a launch escape system during liftoff. Its maiden uncrewed flight, Shenzhou 1, was...
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    Pioneer probes, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory embarked upon an uncrewed spacecraft development program whose modular design could be used to support...
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    Mars 1M (section Spacecraft)
    Mars 1M was a series of two uncrewed spacecraft which were used in the first Soviet missions to explore Mars. They were the earliest missions of the Mars...
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    Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft in a body of water, usually by parachute. The method has been used primarily by American crewed capsules...
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    cargo storage for the TKS spacecraft. The FGB could also be used alone as an uncrewed cargo module without a VA spacecraft, which enabled the FGB design...
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    no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft (nonfunctional spacecraft and abandoned launch vehicle stages), mission-related debris...
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    Saturn Vs launched two uncrewed CSMs on high Earth orbit test flights, the CSM on one crewed lunar mission, the complete spacecraft on one crewed low Earth...
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  • (missile) MILAN Roland (missile) Helios (spacecraft) Symphonie EURECA Shuttle pallet satellite Spacelab Saenger (spacecraft) MBTA Commuter Rail BTC-3 and CTC-3...
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    the intended TKS spacecraft configuration. To accelerate the man-rating of the TKS and VA spacecraft, eight uncrewed VA spacecraft (without FGBs) were...
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    spaceflight to low Earth orbit and the Moon. On the other hand, uncrewed spacecraft have reached all of the known planets in the Solar System. Outer...
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    flies a spacecraft into outer space. Human spaceflight is distinguished from spaceflight generally, which entails both crewed and uncrewed spacecraft. There...
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    was too risky to return its astronauts to Earth aboard the spacecraft, which landed uncrewed in September 2024. Starliner costs more per flight than Crew...
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  • spacecraft (Chinese: 可重复使用试验航天器; pinyin: Kěchóngfùshǐyòng shìyàn hángtiānqì; lit. 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft') is a Chinese reusable uncrewed spaceplane...
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    This is a list of uncrewed spacecraft which have been intentionally destroyed at their objects of study, typically by hard landings or crash landings...
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    partially reusable spacecraft discard some kind of expendable module before reentry and recovery. Reusable spacecraft may be crewed or uncrewed and orbital or...
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    and Technology Corporation (CASC). The prototype of the spacecraft underwent its first uncrewed test flight on 5 May 2020. The crew carrier is designed...
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    Space telescope (category Uncrewed spacecraft)
    A space telescope (also known as space observatory) is a telescope in outer space used to observe astronomical objects. Suggested by Lyman Spitzer in 1946...
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    Mariner Mark II (category Cancelled spacecraft)
    Mariner Mark II was NASA's planned family of uncrewed spacecraft for the exploration of the outer Solar System that were to be developed and operated...
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    This is a list of all crewed spacecraft types that have flown into space, including sub-orbital flights above 80 km, space stations that have been visited...
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    Venus Life Finder (category Proposed spacecraft)
    Venus Life Finder is a planned uncrewed spacecraft to Venus designed to detect signs of life in the Venusian atmosphere. Slated to be the first private...
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    of Earth on which humans have conducted surface missions with uncrewed robotic spacecraft. Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind, launched into...
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    Whipple shield (category Spacecraft components)
    Whipple, is a type of spaced armor shielding to protect crewed and uncrewed spacecraft from hypervelocity impact / collisions with micrometeoroids and orbital...
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    International Space Station (category Spacecraft launched in 1998)
    data, cooling, and crew available to support experiments. Small uncrewed spacecraft can also provide platforms for experiments, especially those involving...
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