A manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research.
1In the tedious hours from the space platform he'd thought too much.
2The rest of Rip's Planeteers had resumed duties on the space platform.
3The military has been looking into the idea of an orbital space platform for decades.
4There were two things Rip could see from his hospital bed on the space platform.
5A thousand miles above Earth's surface the great space platform sped from daylight into darkness.
6She was on the space platform, which was the second most glamorous spot in the universe.
7We'll both turn in for full treatment as soon as we get to the space platform.
8It couldn't spot us from space if it went in an orbit like a space platform.
9He had seen Martians before, on the space platform, but he had never gotten used to them.
10This was free flight again-likepractically all of the ninety-oddhours from the space platform to the moon.
11The rocket-ship was spiralling out and out and up and up, to keep its rendezvous with the space platform.
12UK astronaut Tim Peake arrived at the space platform last week after blasting off from Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket.
13He leaped through the valve, jumped for the high-speed track, and was whisked around the rim of the space platform.
14If you'll assume responsibility for getting him off the asteroid and into a Terra or space platform hospital in time.
15The space platform was a refueling depot, where conventional chemical fuel rockets topped off their tanks before flaming for space.
16But the plan to privatize a space platform the US spent around $100b to construct will be widely opposed.
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