Spacecraft vehicle designed to move the payload from a reference orbit to the target orbit, or direct it to an interplanetary trajectory.
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Examples for "upper stage"
Examples for "upper stage"
1RL10 engines burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to power the upper stage.
2If only the Voivode should be on the upper stage, all would be well.
3Of these magistrates of this upper stage consists the signory.
4The Delta IV, although larger and more mature, would also need a new upper stage.
5NASA declared success three and a half hours after lift-off, following separation from the upper stage.
1A yellow-and-green-striped space tug drifted alongside and flashed its 'Follow Me' signal.
2One screen of missiles hurtled on before the space tug, and another behind.
3In minutes, the space tug had a line made fast.
4Then the space tug came cautiously close to the Moonship.
5The space tug settled a little and leaned a little.
6He shifted a control, and the space tug swayed.
7Joe and his crew relaxed in the space tug.
8A space tug hauling a tow to the Platform!
9The space tug came out of the lock.
10As the space tug skimmed past, its path would be curved by the pull of gravity.
11The space tug returned to the Platform.
12The space tug could take rockets from its cargo and set them outside its hull for firing.
13He drove them into the space tug.
14Joe and his crew in the space tug hauled the Moonship a good five miles from the Platform.
15There was the seeming of a vast sack of pure blackness before the nose of the space tug.
16The Platform and of course the space tug was now on the reverse side of the Platform's orbit.
Translations for space tug