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Meanings of space platform in English

Portuguese
estações espaciais
Catalan
estació espacial

A manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research.

estações espaciais
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Examples for "space station"
Examples for "space station"
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Routine crew missions to the space station could start later this year.
Radio NZ
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The destruction of the Emperor's space station will only amplify the violence.
From a Certain Point of View
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Dinah saved me by taking aggressive action against rules of space station.
Seveneves
4
Congress funded a new orbital space station, which served a dual mission.
First contact: or, it's later than you think
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From their he was able to use the space station's communications equipment.
Reuters
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Flight controllers soon realized that the 100-ton space laboratory was in trouble.
Wired
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China has launched its first space laboratory, Tiangong-1.
BBC
3
The work of any European astronauts and the Japanese space laboratory is being coordinated by others in Germany and Japan.
BBC
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The run from Earth was short, for the space laboratory wasn't far away at the moment as interplanetary distances go.
Security
5
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a video call to three of his country's astronauts aboard the orbiting Tiangong space laboratory.
BBC
Usage of space platform in English
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In the tedious hours from the space platform he'd thought too much.
Operation: Outer Space
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The rest of Rip's Planeteers had resumed duties on the space platform.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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The military has been looking into the idea of an orbital space platform for decades.
Wired
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There were two things Rip could see from his hospital bed on the space platform.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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A thousand miles above Earth's surface the great space platform sped from daylight into darkness.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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She was on the space platform, which was the second most glamorous spot in the universe.
Operation: Outer Space
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We'll both turn in for full treatment as soon as we get to the space platform.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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It couldn't spot us from space if it went in an orbit like a space platform.
Operation: Outer Space
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He had seen Martians before, on the space platform, but he had never gotten used to them.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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This was free flight again-likepractically all of the ninety-oddhours from the space platform to the moon.
Operation: Outer Space
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The rocket-ship was spiralling out and out and up and up, to keep its rendezvous with the space platform.
Operation: Outer Space
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UK astronaut Tim Peake arrived at the space platform last week after blasting off from Kazakhstan on a Soyuz rocket.
BBC
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He leaped through the valve, jumped for the high-speed track, and was whisked around the rim of the space platform.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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If you'll assume responsibility for getting him off the asteroid and into a Terra or space platform hospital in time.
Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet
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The space platform was a refueling depot, where conventional chemical fuel rockets topped off their tanks before flaming for space.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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But the plan to privatize a space platform the US spent around $100b to construct will be widely opposed.
The Guardian
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