Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The revenue-producing part of a cargo.
- noun The total weight of passengers and cargo that an aircraft carries or can carry.
- noun The total weight of the instruments, crew, and life-support systems that a spacecraft carries or can carry.
- noun The passengers, crew, instruments, or equipment carried by an aircraft, spacecraft, or rocket.
- noun The explosive charge carried by a missile or contained in a bomb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge.
- noun The goods carried by a large vehicle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That part of a
cargo that producesrevenue - noun The total
weight ofpassengers ,crew ,equipment , and cargo carried by anaircraft orspacecraft - noun That part of a
rocket ,missile , propelledstinger , ortorpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as awarhead orsatellite . - noun computing The
functional part of acomputer virus rather than the part thatspreads it - noun communication The actual
data in adata stream
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- noun the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
Etymologies
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Examples
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STS-118:  There are some problems with ESP-3:  the Interface Control Document normally takes 7 months to translate payload requirements into orbiter interfaces to support payload requirements.
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STS-118:  There are some problems with ESP-3:  the Interface Control Document normally takes 7 months to translate payload requirements into orbiter interfaces to support payload requirements.
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Since their payload is already smaller than Ares I, it will cut into Orion even more, which is what many people on here complain Ares I does.
Jeff Hanley's Latest Update From the Denial Zone - NASA Watch 2009
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If you can't get your hydrogen powered upper stage all the way to orbit, you are either doing something drastically wrong on the first stage, and your payload is too heavy, or both.
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However, if a payload is robotically operated then a risk analysis of loss of payload might be found acceptable and cheaper to lift-off.
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The customized malware payload is innocuous looking, low profile, and usually avoids typical malware giveaways.
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Possible increase in payload of 15 - 20,000 pounds.
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In the mid 1990's, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Shuttle Small Payloads Project (SSPP), home to the GAS program, realized that many student organizations struggled in developing a full payload from the ground up, i. e data systems, power systems, structures, and the experiment taking their energy away from the actual science to be achieved.
Today's Video: Inspire Me! Weightless Flights of Discovery - NASA Watch 2009
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If you can't get your hydrogen powered upper stage all the way to orbit, you are either doing something drastically wrong on the first stage, and your payload is too heavy, or both.
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Despite the increase in payload of 1mT, the crew complement of Orion is down to four instead of six; requiring a minimum of two launches to fully man the ISS with its normal crew complement and rotate existing crew members; unless that is the requirement is now limited to U. S crew members.
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